Tea cigarettes?

My mate has been smoking recently, but she claims that she's only doing it for the pleasure of smoking itself and not out of addiction.

Out of concern for her health, I suggested she should just smoke paper or tea (or possibly coffee?) but is this healthy? I've read accounts of people "sleeping to death" if you smoke tea and then tobacco within an hour because of a chemical reaction (which sounds feasible), but is there any danger of cancer or anything of the sort? :confused:

I dunno, I know it's not addicting (supposedly ;))

smoking paper is bad, period. inhaling anything with smoke is not going to be nice to your lungs

Would it cause cancer? If so, would it cause cancer as quickly as tobacco?

I had thought a similiar notion, since it's bad to inhale too much smoke around a blacksmith's forge (it's a long story how I know this).

Is there any information on the risks of smoking in general (not just tobacco) available? I could only find risks of tobacco and marijuana.

It's the strangest thing that she isn't addicted to the tobacco yet, but she insists on smoking "something". Once when she had the urge to smoke, to show that she wasn't addicted to the tobacco, I insisted she smoke paper. She smoked like a chimney, and then the urge passed after the first two "cigarettes".

It's the oddest thing!

But she won't give up smoking all together, unfortunately. Maybe I could try and talk her into quiting, though I'd suspect she just would continue to smoke merely behind my back ;)

I'll consult a local physician from my handy-dandy yellow pages.

/me just wants to run and hide....

Talk her into quitting... I can't believe you're telling her to smoke anything.... It's obviously an addiction that she has... the first sign of an addiction is someone saying "I don't have an addiction I can stop anytime I want"... Good lord.... slap some sense into her and then slap some sense into yourself for telling her to smoke paper and tea and coffee..

It's called an "oral fixation" and many people have this problem, it's as common as phobias. People who chew on pencils. pens. etc. She has to go through the act of smoking to curb her addiction. The rest you can look up yourself if you care about her.

Simply a psychological symptom to an underlying problem. Read pretty much any book by a behaviorist psychologist and it should shed some light on the subject.

http://allpsych.com/psychology101/learning.html

I agree with KorpDeath on this one.

There are two basic sorts of addiction, The "physical" and the "psychological".

I would not recommend smoking tea or coffee or paper.

If you go to your drugstore or health food shop you should be able to get "herbal cigarettes" which are allegedly non-toxic, or at least relatively so. They smell like burning garden waste!

Nicotine is highly addictive and with tobacco you also take in TAR and carbon monoxide :eek:

If you must smoke tobacco, smoke a pipe as it is somewhat less harmful than cigarettes, that have saltpeter in the paper to keep them alight.

Of course, for a young lady with an "oral fixation" I could suggest another alternative..............but I don't think we want to go there :D

especially since saltpeter umm... you know... fights the reason why viagra was invented ;)

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Originally posted here by nihil
If you go to your drugstore or health food shop you should be able to get "herbal cigarettes"

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There are other places to get "herbal cigarettes" y'know. At least those would have less Polonium-210 and Lead-210 in them.

Get her chewing toothpicks or something.

The big recent news is that marijuana smoking seems to
pose no significant cancer risk, contrary to what we
all have assumed.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/ar...k_played_down/

Prolly not a good reason to suggest substituting it for tobacco, though.
She could get busted and sent to jail.
:cool:

I just recently quite smoking, there are tons of options for smoking tobacco-less cigarettes. For one, there are the Quit brand cigarettes, made, as the name would imply for quitting, to counter the oral fixation.

I have also seen vegetarian cigarettes amde mostly from lettuce and other green plants, weird stuff. I have also heard good things about catnip, though never tried it. If you go to any good smoke shop, they will have all sorts of alternative cigarettes. Or you can be like me and quit while you are ahead. Day 13 smokefree....

Info only and definitely non-judgmental....

Gotta tell ya, that she ain't gonna stop until she wants to! I quit many times before I finally stopped! It was a battle, mostly because I had been smoking for over 20 years, it was part of my life, I didn't want to quit, and I was addicted to it. All the stop smoking aids will assist, however it will be wasting the coins until mentally she wants it. And there may be relapses as well (even after 9 years of quitting, it still smells good). No need to substitute either. Been there, done that. I then would simple smoke anything. Chew & dippin' made it even worse. So encourage her to quit, but don't set expectations that she's not ready to fulfill.

If it was a huge ugly monster, we'd run from. But it's not. When you're young and healthy....and besides that - you get a buzz on from smoking and loading up on coffee etc.

cheers and good luck

One of the hardest parts of quitting is how to keep yourself (hands)occupied, for me what helped was the mouse and the PC and the fact that I can't smoke at my desk, or anywhere at the office.The enviroment she works in may help or aggravate the chances of quitting. I like Relyt am a hard core smoker, it's been 8yrs for me, and up to 1998 when I quit I had been smoking since 1973, and like what was said, the smell still trigger's memories every so often.

The point is to try and change the current situation or enviroment or substitute the action with something else, may sound weird but a hobby like knitting could take the instinct of lighting up away,, until she is comfortable...oh yeah and the hardest one to qive up, is the morning smoke, that very first one of the day, get past that and you can do it, may have to cut back on coffee or tea as it is an association just like beer, used to be both would go "hand in hand" sort of... ;)

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Originally posted here by Arkimedes
Would it cause cancer? If so, would it cause cancer as quickly as tobacco?

I had thought a similiar notion, since it's bad to inhale too much smoke around a blacksmith's forge (it's a long story how I know this).

Is there any information on the risks of smoking in general (not just tobacco) available? I could only find risks of tobacco and marijuana.

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I haven't read every post here, but this is an Oral Fixation. I can't say that I don't like it that my friend's have them because well.... I can't say, younger people read this ;)

Now, first off, Nicotine is one of the MOST addictive substances known to man. It's way more addictive than Heroin and Crack.

What you want to do is buy her a **** load of suckers. IT allows her to put something in her mouth and play with it but not smoke something which, no matter what it is, will harm her lungs.

Smoking Tea could possibly kill her. People seem to think "If it's OTC it must be safe no matter how I use it".... Quite a dangerouse attitude to have which is why....


OK, most likely she has her tongue peirced. If not, tell her to get one. Then buy suckers. Lots.

furhter to the pot smoking / no cancer item :eek:

there are always risks to smoking
cancer is just one

but it is the WAY a pot head smokes that fecks em up
as they draw the smoke in DEEP
and hold it in longer

giving rise to small cell carcinoma
HIGHLY aggressive, and generally too late by the time it is discovered

http://www.meds.com/pdq/smallcell_pro.html

just stop
it is the way I did it

although I had only been a smoker for around 12 years, so it wasn't so ingrained as if I had STILL been smoking now

I found that beer tasted SO much better afer I had kicked the habit

this is the weirdest post ever

Tea is a herbal leaf.

Coffee is a berry, but the tree also has leaves.

Tobacco is a leaf with some herbal properties. So it is just like tea.

It's more the byproduct of combustion and inhaling razor shar ashes that are the culprit. This is a tough situation, you can't make someone stop smoking because you want them too. So you have a choice help her along and encourage change or pack up and hit the road.