Comments on: Why Do Coffee and Cigarettes Go So Well Together?

By: Rory

Rory — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:17:41 +0000

It’s the “Infinite Addictive Loop”!
I LOVE IT!

By: ffolliet

ffolliet — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:27:42 +0000

can’t quite remember the physiology but the combination of alcohol and nicotine on the nucleii in your head (supra optic and para-ventricular) means that whilst alcohol makes you pee more, the nicotine reduces this.

thus smokers piss less than their smoke free drinking buddies

By: Covert7

Covert7 — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:43:17 +0000

I’ve got something a little different but possibly related. I’m a pipe smoker and live down South. My favorite drink is sweet tea and I drink gallons of the stuff weekly. Anyway, I found that whenever I sit down to smoke I would often want a drink and naturally went for my sweet tea.

Man, I don’t know what it is, but having the two together seems to up the flavor and enjoyment a TON. I know it may sound cheesy but it’s like some kind of synergy thing where together they’re better than their individual componets. Now I rarely every smoke my pipe without making sure I’ve got a glass of the stuff with me.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:16:09 +0000

Like alcohol, caffeine increases the rate at which nicotine is metabolized out of the blood. Thus, drinking alcohol or caffeine makes you want to smoke more often to keep your blood nicotine level up. Of course, this is also why that first cig of the day is such a rush. If your’e a regular smoker, your blood nicotine level is never lower than right after you wake up and before you have that first one. It was always the best one for me!

Nicotine’s effect on caffeine is similar: you need more to get the same effect. The two sort of blunt each other. When I quit smoking I had to reduce my caffeine intake by about half, because my normal dose gave me extreme caffeine jitters.

By: Selcouth14

Selcouth14 — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:27:57 +0000

“Stem Cell Roast” – Hilarious!

As a smoker and coffee drinker I always wondered this myself. If nicotine shortens the half-life of caffine, does caffine exacerbate the affects of nicotine? Does drinking coffee make you want to smoke more, or less. For me, I tend to want to smoke more when I drink coffee. On another note, I’m sure cigarette companies won’t promote smoking cigarettes as a prevention for Parkinson’s disease, that just wouldn’t go over well.