Stop Smoking

Nicotine is a powerful drug that is contained in tobacco. When you smoke, your body builds up a nicotine tolerance level. When your nicotine level drops below your tolerance level, you will want to smoke because your body starts to crave nicotine.

Nicotine fulfills many needs. It stimulates and energizes, and it also relaxes. While these are opposite reactions, you learn how to achieve either effect by the way you drag on the cigarette. You may find that if you are hungry, smoking fills your need for food. If you are angry, sad, frustrated, or lonely it soothes you. Smoking a cigarette has relieved physical pain.

This is why some people gain weight when they quit smoking. When you feel angry, smoking can soothe you and calm you down. Smoking has even been known to relieve physical pain. Some people use food as a reward and some people use smoking to reward themselves for an achievement. From what we’ve talked about, smoking sounds like some sort of miracle cure.

Nicotine travels to your brain rapidly. With just one drag off a cigarette, the chemicals in your brain activate to give you the effects you seek. Harmful physical effects are occurring at the same time: your heart to works harder, your blood pressure increases, your arteries constrict, and your red blood cells become sticky, causing clots to form more easily. Your craving for a cigarette is satisfied because the level of nicotine in your blood increases. After awhile, you become dependent on a certain level of nicotine.

Nicotine is so powerful that it controls lives. If you doubt that control, think about how you may have gone out in a snowstorm or torrential rain to get cigarettes because you were running out. Or maybe you continued to smoke when you had bronchitis so bad, you thought you would choke. Have you planned activities or travel around smoking? Maybe you chose a gambling vacation over a trip to visit museums and historical sites where smoking is not allowed.

Learn how powerful nicotine is and you can start taking control of your life. If you try to quit cold turkey, you might experience nicotine withdrawal. It takes 72 hours for nicotine to excrete from your body. If you quit without nicotine replacement therapy, you will discover withdrawal symptoms. Fight these withdrawal symptoms by finding healthy alternatives to smoking.

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