Cigarettes gook up the fine little eyelash like oxygen receptors in your lungs with tar and nicotene and thus block the absorption of precious oxygen to the blood. This destroy cells in the heart which can never grow back, weakening the heart. Many times that residue in the lungs forms tumors, to keep it in one place, so the rest of the body can function. Bladder cancer, and other cancers are more common in smokers. Cigarettes rob your system of calcium, B vitamins and vitamin C, and give you an agressive aging issue. Eighty-five percent of smoker die from the habit. There are toxic and addictive ingredients added to cigarettes that make them extra habit forming and poisonous. Smoking a joint is 400 times more of everything above, really coats those oxygen receptors and that is why you get really high, and can barely do anything but think, so oxygen starved is your body. Pot smokers have heart and depression problems later in life if they don’t quit.

If you want to have a cigarette break, try having a stretch break, or an instrument learning break, a cup of tea, read a book, find a happy place, help others. Cut back until you quit, you won’t die from quitting, but you’ll probably die from continuing.