| There are two parts of the addiction to cigarettes. | | | | When any attempt is made to stop supplying nicotine |
| - Physical addiction to nicotine | | | | to the body is made there will be extreme anxiety and |
| - Behavior addiction of handling and lighting cigarettes. | | | | strong mood swings. |
| There is absolutely no disagreement that nicotine is | | | | The Behavioral Addiction of Nicotine |
| addictive. | | | | Consider this: Smoking is a whole body habit. The |
| The Physical Nicotine Addiction | | | | removing a cigarette from a package; the handling of |
| Everybody agrees that it is, in fact, an addictive | | | | a cigarette; the lighting of a cigarette; inhaling smoke; |
| substance...and it is poison, too. Nicotine is the tobacco | | | | exhaling smoke; tapping ashes off the cigarette as it |
| plant's natural protection against insects. In the same | | | | burns; even extinguishing the cigarette after it has been |
| volume, nicotine is a poison that is more deadly than | | | | smoked are all part of the total smoking addiction. |
| strychnine and rattlesnake venom. | | | | So what's the answer? |
| Nicotine is three times more lethal than arsenic. | | | | For a person to successfully stop smoking, the entire |
| Within eight seconds of inhaling cigarette smoke, | | | | habit must be addressed. Just withholding nicotine for a |
| dopamine is released into the blood stream. | | | | period of time long enough to undo the physical |
| Dopamine is a kind of chemical messenger that is | | | | changes made to the brain is not sufficient. |
| similar to adrenaline. Dopamine affects the way that | | | | Often one habit is replaced by another habit…and |
| the brain processes emotional responses, pain and | | | | sometimes the replacement is as deadly as or even |
| pleasure. Nicotine, therefore, affects the mood of the | | | | more deadly than the first habit. |
| person who is inhaling the tobacco smoke. | | | | Using a program that addresses nicotine and smoking |
| Nicotine in cigarette smoke actually alters transmitters | | | | addictions simultaneously is the only way to |
| and receptors in the brain. This alteration causes | | | | successfully break them. |
| addiction. | | | | |