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[–] 2 pts

A large dose of magic mushrooms I ground up and took with lime juice (making it hit even harder) of a particularly potent strain.

Long story short, they permanently took away any pleasure I get from smoking, and increased how much happier I feel without cigarettes. I could go into detail about what the trip was like, but a TL;DR was I was tormented by them, told I'm "stuck in their domain now with no way to get out, stuck here to be mentally ripped apart", and made to beg for sobriety and never do drugs again.

Truth be told I've never wanted to sober up so damn fast, but it was worth it in the end because it changed my view around smoking enough to make me decide to quit.

I didn't prep, I just took my cigarette pack and lighter and dropped it somewhere on the ground for somebody else to keep. Withdrawals are awkward, my muscles occasionally tickle and sometimes I get murderously angry, but small amounts of weed completely get rid of that for a few hours.

The main advice I can give is to recognize the desire to smoke as a separate entity to what you yourself want, and to relish in the withdrawal symptoms, knowing it's nothing more than awkward healing. Similar to telling a child once they finally vomit, they'll feel better, even though the idea of vomiting is quite stressful. Mindset is the difference between making quitting smoking borderline impossible, and just really awkward and uncomfortable. That's all I've got.

[–] 1 pt

I’ve often wondered if a real intense trip confuses the mind so much that it has to reset some of its neural pathways, which effectively deprograms a lifetime of social conditioning/brainwashing. I had a wild cubensis trip over 20 years ago and I have been forever changed by that experience. Coincidentally I also stopped smoking the next day, but I also gave up weed. I couldn’t wait to be sober.

[–] 1 pt

It's like hitting a reset button.

Yeah, the trip was not fun at all, I regretted it and wanted to sober up so bad. Not a nightmare trip though, but definetly a bad one. Even anti-drug people should see the argument for legalizing Magic Mushrooms to some degree, it has huge promise in smoking cessation, and increasing life satisfaction, as well as treating depression, and all of this is research backed.

Better than keeping alcohol and cigs around and banning everything else, that's for sure.

Shrooms just strips off ego and pretense. For OP cigarettes was an idol stealing control of his life and it told him so.

Not everybody knows how to dig through the mind so certain drugs can be theraputic when it helps strip away the outer layers.