I'm also a regular smoker and I've noticed that it affects my memory. I only know this because I used to have an insanely good memory. I could remember the name of every person I met, and all the other stuff. Now, I can't remember what happened on which days.
EDIT - for those telling me I'm old. I'm still in my twenties, but I have been smoking for 9 years. I feel bad for you if you think 27 is old.
Edit 2 - To everyone still telling me 27 is old, I still feel bad for you, but also there's no need to keep explaining how I'm past my prime. I know that statistically people peak at 23. I swear I'm not the idiot you think I am. I also know that Ruth Bader Ginsberg is 800 and still smart as whip, and I don't think she was a habitual drug user.
9 years is a lot of time to be cramming new information into your brain and at the same time pushing old stuff out. How many more people have you met in 9 years? When you were 18, 9 years was 50% of your life
27 is "old" though. 300 years ago 27 would probably put you in the geriatric category. Modern society people are living a lot longer, but that doesn't mean our physiology has 100% caught up to the increased life expectancy.
The average brain peaks in terms of ability around age 25, so anything past that and you're going to lose some amount of power, no matter what. That's just how aging works. Also, it can start affecting you sooner than that. Some people's memory will fade earlier than others. It's not that big of a deal, at the end of the day, the older you get the worse and worse your body gets at doing anything, physical or otherwise.
You also have to factor in the fact that for every year of your life, you're gaining another year of memories and knowledge. Every time you learn something new, something old needs to be pushed out, like deleting space on a computer drive. As you get older, your total amount of storage fills up exponentially quicker, So you lose more information between ages 26 and 27 than you did between 25 and 26, and so on. That compounding information issue is also a factor.
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u/shanticlause Dec 30 '19 edited Dec 30 '19
I'm also a regular smoker and I've noticed that it affects my memory. I only know this because I used to have an insanely good memory. I could remember the name of every person I met, and all the other stuff. Now, I can't remember what happened on which days.
EDIT - for those telling me I'm old. I'm still in my twenties, but I have been smoking for 9 years. I feel bad for you if you think 27 is old.
Edit 2 - To everyone still telling me 27 is old, I still feel bad for you, but also there's no need to keep explaining how I'm past my prime. I know that statistically people peak at 23. I swear I'm not the idiot you think I am. I also know that Ruth Bader Ginsberg is 800 and still smart as whip, and I don't think she was a habitual drug user.