Originally Posted by Fengzi
One thing I have found is that, no matter how long you stop smoking, you will never get that same feeling you did when you first started. You might get rid of the physical tolerance but the mental tolerance will still exist.
When we first start smoking most of us have that crazy, super high, laughing, tripping out type of high. My theory is that a big part of that is just the fact that it is such a new sensation for us. As we continue smoking we build up a physical tolerance but we also build up a mental tolerance. We just get used to it and the novelty of that "yipee I'm soo high" feeling goes away.
I came up with this theory based on my own experience. I started smoking 25 years ago and smoked several times a day, every day for years and years. I definitely built up a tolerance and found that smoking just wasn't the same as it used to be. Then I stopped completely for about 5 years. When I started again I got high as hell, but still didn't have that same feeling as I did when I first started long ago. My body had lost it's tolerance but my memory still existed so I didn't have that new sensation feeling again.