Is There A Real Cure For Nicotine Addiction?

There are two parts of the addiction to cigarettes.When any attempt is made to stop supplying nicotine
- Physical addiction to nicotineto 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 isThe Behavioral Addiction of Nicotine
addictive.Consider this: Smoking is a whole body habit. The
The Physical Nicotine Addictionremoving a cigarette from a package; the handling of
Everybody agrees that it is, in fact, an addictivea cigarette; the lighting of a cigarette; inhaling smoke;
substance...and it is poison, too. Nicotine is the tobaccoexhaling smoke; tapping ashes off the cigarette as it
plant's natural protection against insects. In the sameburns; even extinguishing the cigarette after it has been
volume, nicotine is a poison that is more deadly thansmoked 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 ischanges made to the brain is not sufficient.
similar to adrenaline. Dopamine affects the way thatOften one habit is replaced by another habit…and
the brain processes emotional responses, pain andsometimes the replacement is as deadly as or even
pleasure. Nicotine, therefore, affects the mood of themore 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 transmittersaddictions simultaneously is the only way to
and receptors in the brain. This alteration causessuccessfully break them.
addiction.