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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    I believe there are some issues for people with mental health concerns due to the reward pathway fuckery,

    It appears that people with mental health issues have way more problems to quit smoking than people on average.
    The burning of tobacco makes the nicotine combine with other compounds in the tobacco to form MAO inhibitor effect. Which people with mental problems become way more dependent on than other people.

    For these people e-cigs have been shown to help a lot, despite they don’t have the MAO effect, they help by limiting the abstinence of not smoking by providing nicotine, and probably by providing a reasonably strong placebo effect from “feeling” like smoking in many ways.

    For some people with mental problems, smoking can often be seen as an attempt of self treatment.