Also, a big overlooked part of the addictive property of cigarettes is the societal part. There is very little stigma associated with cigarettes. No matter what, heavy drugs are rightfully demonized, there’s always heavy pressure to at least try to kick the habit. But go to an alcoholics/narcotics anonymous meeting, and you’ll find a crowd of people smoking outside - which I always found strange, they’re there to kick an addiction and they’re guzzling caffeine and chain smoking cancer sticks. You can buy them anywhere, any time, 24/7/365, and you can smoke them in public. Besides all the other physiological effects, society being, for the most part, totally cool with cigs definitely contributes.
I also forgot to mention that he has been smoking and drinking eod for no more then 4-5 months.
he is not a heavily addicted every day smoker by any means. we will live in a town with 30,000 people so there is literally fuck all else to do, he still goes to the gym but a month back he had slowed down on the gym a little (he had been going hard for a year straight with a personal trainer and nutritionist. (it seems here to get trt you need to walk in looking like you have muscle wasting from aids or something.)
Is he still on oxy?
Must be the kick that’s missing from codeine because of the slow metabolization. Heroine is also just morphine with two acetylations but they get metabolized very quickly AND speed up blood brain barrier passage drastically which is why heroine gives you a real high and morphine doesn’t. Codeine slows it down even more which decreases dopamine response and therefore addiction potential which ultimately comes down to stimulation of dopaminergoc neurons in the ventral tegmental area.
I heard you use the word “mate”, and say you don’t live in the USA, are you in Australia?
If so technically any man should be able to go to a Dr and say they want a testosterone prescription, via a private script. The downside is you have to pay full price which could be around $100 for 1 of 3 repeats.
Most Dr’s either don’t know this, or don’t tell you. They only seem to know about the subsidised pharmaceutical benefits scheme, which has a ridiculously low, virtually non existent level before they will prescribe testosterone.
Dude, your father smokes half a pack plus of cigarettes and drinks a six pack plus of beer at least every other day. He’s an alcoholic and addicted to nicotine; no matter how much you try to spin it. Your dad needs to get that shit eliminated from his life before he even thinks about jabbing a needle into his ass. Injecting test isn’t going to magically make him no longer crave cigarettes and alcohol.
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