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> You're addicted, you just don't know it.

I smoked cigarettes for ~10 years and I went to rehab for cocaine as a teenager, I am pretty familiar with addiction. I have never exceeded 1x/weekly phenibut and I've taken weeks off for travel, studying, etc, with no problems. I use some other substances recreationally with various cadences, set according to my understanding of how the body reacts to them (e.g. LSD never more often than every 2 weeks).

It's shocking to me that some people can smoke the occasional cigarette without getting hooked, but the fact of the matter is that the psychological impact of drug use varies quite a lot according to the (person + substance) in question. Nicotine is something that happens to appeal to me a lot more than it seems to appeal to other people.

> If you're referring to phenibut, I wasn't taking it every day

I'm replying to phenthrowAway, who said he used phenibut for "just a few weeks" before getting dependent.




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