Smoking while intoxicated

Why does smoking feel especially pleasurable while mildly to moderately intoxicated? If I had to WAG, I would say that the stimulant properties of the nicotine compliment the depressant properties of the alcohol to produce a best-of-both-worlds type of mild euphoria, but my guess is far from scientific. What say The Dope?

I don’t know, but I and everyone I know basically would be in agreement with you. I think it’s a combination of the fact that alcohol/weed heightens some of your perceptions (while lessening others), and that heightened sensation makes the nicotine rush more pleasurable - and the fact that being fucked up makes you feel “cool,” and smoking cigarettes are “cool.”

If you’re a smoker, it’s an easy answer. As soon as you put out a cigarette, nicotine starts leaving your body and you begin to feel the effects of withdrawl. These withdrawl syptoms screw up your drunk. As soon as you light a cigarette, the symptoms go away and you get the full on good feelings of being drunk.

I am (poorly) parapharsing from a book on not smoking.

If you’re not addicted to cigarettes, then I don’t know.

From *Protective effects of nicotine on ethanol-induced toxicity in cultured cerebellar granule cells. * by Y Tizabi et al.: