I’m just curious about why an antagonist of Herion has little affect on smoking cigarettes. I know much of smoking is psychological, but the affects of nicotene is bizzarly different when the half life of methadone dwindles.
Now that I have quit smoking after a 10 year stint the withdrawals are fairly difficult, but not nearly as bad as they were when I quit for 4 years, some 15 years ago.
Part of my reason for quitting was to save money I felt I was simply wasting. Another issue was that I was afraid my treatment program ( lifer at the clinic w/ ZERO dirties) could be masking the damage from smoking?
ADDED:after reading a couple of answers-
I am aware of it trading addictions. Personally I screamed to my local ADAHM board for the 2 years I was waiting to get it here in Columbus Ohio.
I pleaded that I was needing it for pain management. At the time the state government had it so clamped down for anyone to get that my H habit worsened. I lived and live with the stigma that the H way was a WRONG way to manage pain. Well no SH!$ ! Would not this be a good enough reason to educate and distribute? Of course not. Then ,and even now to a certain degree I get these pangs telling me, “Paul, you did what you could do to deal with it all. Of course if they just would have understood that I had a real need to maintain the normal state of mind that the illegal substance afforded me things could have been much much better for all concerned. ..then I feel the unsettling conspiracy pang-” waiting is how you get punished”.
Sorry about that. I never talk openly about this for a reason.

Janette