A thought I have is about whether smoking is superior in that it delivers directly to the lungs the nicotine. If smoke quality is good and only nicotine and what else comes from tobacco leaf is what the lungs receive, wouldn't this likely to be therapeutic?

Since we thinking of smoking as only bad without any qualification, we may be wanting to stay within the limits set by conventional wisdom.

Conventional wisdom being often, or mostly wrong, we may just be shutting ourselves off from the best solution offered in the simplest package from nature.

@S-Holmes

Aside from patches, would chewing tobacco work. No smoking also, but habitual chewers have nasty teeth.

RPF member from the better days methylewhite smokes rolled tobacco. He.says the trick is not to use a lighter or matchstick. The way it burns is different when you use charcoal embers to light the joint. I'm waiting for a supply of a certain kind of lead used to roll the tobacco from my wet market veggie and coconut meat dealer. No one supplies that in the city but when she goes home she would bring back some.

@DavidPS

Thanks David! The summary is very helpful. Try passing Ray's article to family or friends or even to a chat group. No one will be able to get the message much less get the idea resveratrol is bad and keep on drinking red wine just because it is good for some reason starting with a letter r with four syllables.

This is one reason AI helps.

@samuel Awesome!

@samuel

He has an article on resveratrol on other sites. I wonder how AI could summarize that article as I had a hard time trying to summarize it. Wonder how well AI would do it:

https://expulsia.com/health/peat-index/resveratrol

@Gardner I don't know that honey contains digestive enzymes. The digestive enzymes come with the raw meat. The enzyme is deactivated with high temperature when meat is cooked. I can't quote the author, as it was from a book I read long ago. I've eaten raw meat, haven't felt great nor sick though eating it but I would eat it every opportunity I have, which is not often but probably should.

@Gardner Have you eaten raw meat from a good source? Since it comes with enzymes, how can it not be digested more poorly than cooked meat, which has no enzymes anymore?

@Kilgore Two benefits of eating raw meat that I value more are the vitamin C that we get more of over cooked meat, ans the presence of enzymes that make digesting the raw meat easier. It also conserves the enzymes that our pancreas don't have to make. If it's true we have a limited store of enzymes in our lifetime, eating raw meat helps conserve our body's enzymes. I know taking care of my dad, he developed skin allergies in his old age..I suspected he lacked endogenous production of proteolytic enzymes, and I was right. His allergies disappeared when he began taking enzymes. At his age, his skin had to do more to excrete waste, and undigested protein being excreted were causing allergies.

@gg12

It must be tough. I hope you find someone who's gone thru your initial experience and struggle and found a way to slowly get back to enjoying life with the drugged past being only a memory. One thstthat has cut his teeth the hard way would be able to help you avoid the difficult task of curing yourself on your own. Finding such a guide or coach is crucial, and healing on your own effort, while possible, can be very hard as you are not in the best position to think on your own. Hope you also have a supportive family or friends too.

That said, its good you have the desire to care enough to reach out for help. I pray and wish you the best in the coming years.

@gg12

Death is just a beginning to another plane of existence. I consider it a rite of passage not to be feared. But it doesn't meaning I'll do everything to hasten my death but on the contrary I want to live long in health, and continue to make myself useful. I hope I don't run out out of meaning and purpose as life becomes drudgery.