Smoking and LDing

**JustASimpleGuy** · 03-19-2015 08:45 PM

I do understand nicotine can reduce the amount of REM sleep and also binds to acetylcholine receptors and raises the level of dopamine.

Is anyone familiar with the impact a nicotine addiction could have on lucid dreaming? From my limited understanding I'd have to think it's a net negative.

**Forg** · 03-19-2015 09:50 PM

If you smoke, how about quiting anyway?
It won't do any good to your health, and if you die at 60 due to lungcancer or another disease caused by smoking, then you just wasted ~20 years worth of dreaming.

**JustASimpleGuy** · 03-19-2015 10:07 PM

Smoke free for 49.5 hours.

I kind of put the more demanding aspects of lucid dreaming off to the side until I'm sure I've got the quit under my belt. I don't need distractions and I certainly don't need and anxiety, frustration or tiredness from any lost sleep due to WBTB. That's the kind of stuff that would make it all the more appealing to indulge in a dopamine rush to calm things down.

Anyway I'm more than a little curious once the receptors down-regulate after 21 days or so what that will mean for dreaming in general and lucid dreaming specifically.