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Cigars, Nicotine Buzzes, and Quitting Smoking
from The Joe Rogan Experience | #330 · #330
3 min
Guest
Tim discusses whether cigars give a nicotine buzz, comparing it to cigarettes, and talks about quitting cocaine, alcohol, pills and marijuana but still struggling with cigarettes. He riffs on a Woody Allen "Sleeper" bit about foods once thought bad for you turning out to be good.
- Tim smokes no more than one cigar per day
- Tim and Ari smoked cigars during Sober October and worried they were cheating by getting high
- Cigars produce a different, more relaxed kind of high compared to cigarettes
- Tim argues nicotine isn't that addictive—he quit vaping cold turkey after doing it daily
- Cigarettes are tougher to quit than cocaine, alcohol, pills, or marijuana—Tim's 12-year sobriety doesn't include them
- Tim hasn't smoked in two months but expects he'll bum a cigarette from someone eventually and not know how it happened
- Tim references the Woody Allen film Sleeper where a future society discovers cigarettes and red meat are actually healthy
- Red meat turns out to be partly correct; the sugar industry funded fat activism to shift blame away from sugar
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