How Smokers Are Using Psychedelics To Help Them Quit For Good

Researchers are Johns Hopkins University are studying how psychedelics are helping smokers quit long term. NBC’s Akshay Syal spoke with a woman who said a single dose of “magic mushrooms” has helped her kick a 40 year habit. 

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[larrydiaz]

It's heavily suspected that I'm an addict and psilocybin was the single most effective medication I've ever used.

[Otherthan]

Surprised they’re even reporting on a major news network…not helping tobacco lol. Happy for her new start in life!!

[nzcoindealer]

In 2016 I was on an LSD trip in Melbourne botanical gardens, smoker of 15 years at that point, decided to imagine the poison running through my bloodstream as I took a drag and almost had a panic attack as I felt the poison travel through my entire body and feel like it was killing me from the inside.

That moment flicked a switch, a neurological path was disturbed and while I did try cigarettes and have the occassional one for 2 years after then, I never again had the mental cravings I used to and I stopped thinking about wanting to have a cigarette.

My fiancé had the exact same experience with me, 6 years on we are both happy non-smokers for life!

[dabberdan]

Started smoking at 16 as well and then started micro dosing at 41 and Have been smoke free since July 7, 2022 🙏👍🤷‍♂️

[albert.robles]

I've heard so many good things about psych's like the psilocybin mushrooms and their health benefits, I also heard it helps one get through addiction and depression. Am just wondering where or how I can get my hands on them cause I'll love to give it a try, I'm passing through a state of terrible depression lately and it's killing me

[heyheytaytay]

Nothing scarier than having a DMT demon get in your face about your smoking.

[Geekeric]

A single dose? Wow, that is really impressive!

[SA-homu]

I took one mushroom, and not only did I quit smoking, but now I can speak Japanese

[philoctetes_wordsworth]

If I had taken my mother’s cigarettes, or ruined my mother’s cigarettes, she would never have stopped beating me.

[thickpenguin]

The kids hiding and destroying the cigarettes, lovely little creatures ❤

[landon]

I take large doses of shrooms about twice a month for my depression... plus it's fun lol....between cannabis and magic mushrooms, people have been missing out on the massive medicinal benefits of both. There's so much ignorance out there about these two substances its ridiculous.... all these old republicans need to get out of the way and stop blocking progress

[nychris]

Laying the groundwork for future advertising of psychedelics... the big pharma companies are angling for this market and give their approval for these kind of stories. They need to soften up the public towards these products.

[bobwoods]

I smoked for 33 years. I have been nicotine free for over 4 years now. It took 2 years for there to be no more cravings. There is light at the end of the tunnel.

[sicknado]

"We don't yet understand about how there is this tremendous, affectionate, plant entity that wants to help us through this. For it's sake as much as our own." -Terence McKenna

[symptomoftheuniverse]

Do what I did, been smoke free for 8 years. Have a massive heart attack, endure a triple double by pass, dying 3 times during the surgery. Being in a induced coma, with my chest opened, for fear of me coding, and not be able to get back in.

[rickfipps]

Dear God, how can I be a part of this.

[Texasishot]

I stopped taking my antidepressants (Cymbalta) and found I had no interest in smoking 🚬 anymore.

[Virtual_Vinsanity]

About 20 years ago I quit drugs to grow up for wife and kids but i would still do shrooms from time to time, my wife would say I was a drug addict and give me sht, I told here it was therapeutic, she called it bullsht....She learned.

[traildoggy]

On the ballot now in Colorado:
Colorado Proposition 122, Decriminalization and Regulated Access Program for Certain Psychedelic Plants and Fungi Initiative (2022)
Ballot year: 2022
Ballot text: Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning legal regulated access to natural medicine for persons 21 years of age or older, and, in connection therewith, defining natural medicine as certain plants or fungi that affect a person’s mental health and are controlled substances under state law; establishing a natural medicine regulated access program for supervised care, and requiring the department of regulatory agencies to implement the program and comprehensively regulate natural medicine to protect public health and safety; creating an advisory board to advise the department as to the implementation of the program; granting a local government limited authority to regulate the time, place, and manner of providing natural medicine services; allowing limited personal possession, use, and uncompensated sharing of natural medicine; providing specified protections under state law, including criminal and civil immunity, for authorized providers and users of natural medicine; and, in limited circumstances, allowing the retroactive removal and reduction of criminal penalties related to the possession, use, and sale of natural medicine?

[matthewtoloczko]

So she embraced her angry and fear. Good on her to acknowledge what troubled her the most.