To smokers...?!
Answers: Why does drinking alcohol seriously boost the need to smoke??? You can be quite happy with two cigarettes for the entire day but then when you drink you suddenly end up smoking ten!? Scientific reasons welcome, normal reasons welcome, I don't mind.
It's true -
Research published in the April 2005 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research has found that alcohol can cause a dose-dependent increase in smoking urge, even among light smokers.
you just feel the need to be doing something with your hands and it might boost the high
korkie
Well i used to smoke but quit and now only fell the need to when im really drunk so there must be somthing to it
I'm not sure why but I only smoke when I'm drinking. If I don't have a beer for a week, I won't have a cigarette for a week either....
No idea - but when I read your question I suddenly lit up..... mind you, I've got a voddie and coke with me... go figure, go fish!
telling from the personal experience...... when you drink and are on a high you just dont want to get out from that state ... so whenever it feels like the effect of booze is reducing ..people just light another ciggi . and also to enhance alcohol's effect (plain momentry pleasure though).
I expect it might be something to do with alcohol actually being a depressant.
Smoking is a way of dealing with stresses, and as alcohol is a depressant I imagine there has to be a link, no?
Bit like getting the munchies too, alcohol increases the urge to comfort eat - let's face it, how much more satisfying is a pizza or kebab when you're drunk!
because you see others light up and you feel the need to light up, so if you are with others that smoke and they light up you do the same (monkey see monkey do comes to mind). whilst you are under the influence of alcohol the you forget that you lit one up 10 Min's earlier so you end up smoking more
Habit
My cigs and me are never far apart,and i don,t think it is so much the alcohol,but more likely the enjoyment of the company. Thank you for your interesting question.
because it makes things nicer
It`s because you can smoke, you are relaxing with mates and you smoke, when you aren`t drinking you are usually busy doing something else like working, shopping, housework, gardening. When do you smoke? I bet it`s after breakfast or lunch when you are relaxing
ayemen!
i would like to hear the answer for this too
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i think that people think it makes them look cooler because everyone else is doing it. not to be like "if timmy jumped off a bridge.." but thats how i see it...even tho they are adults they still want to do cool things.