Why Are You Addicted to Smoking?
Addiction to smoke - or rather nicotine - is a feeling that most smokers are aware of.
Typically, a sense of restlessness will come, when the smoker has not smoked a cigarette in a while.
Normally the smoker will smoke a cigarette, and the desire is driven, until the urge arrives the next time.
The time interval for this varies from smoker to smoker.
Some may only smoke at parties, while others may can do with just two to three cigarettes a day, still others must have the desire fulfilled on an hourly basis, and some light one cigarette in the other.
Generally speaking there are two forms of dependence.
One is the physical, resulting in restlessness, suction in the stomach irritation, difficulty concentrating.
The second is at the psychological level, as it may seem pleasant to smoke and that people come together socially.
All have probably heard that smokers are more fun to be with than non-smokers.
Physical what happens is when we started smoking, the brain begins to form multiple receptors, or butterfly nets if you like.
The chemical composition of Nicotine is very similar to a brain own message signals.
Those butterfly net which the brain already has to this substance starts to grow in order to cope with nicotine as well.
When so you decide to stop smoking, the brain can't catch butterflies, and then the physical symptoms emerges.
The problem is that these receptors does not disappear by themselves, but by not feeding them, they gradually fall asleep.
It takes only a few cigarettes to get them to wake up again, and then you are already back in the habit.
When stopping smoking it will typically take 3 months before the physical symptoms are gone.
Within the first weeks, there will be many symptoms, sometimes it can feel like a struggle from hour to hour.
But in reality the physical symptoms rarely lasts more than 3 minutes per time.
But unfortunately, there is also the psychological symptoms to fight.
Many believe that the missing something, typically if it is to a party, but if we have been accustomed to a cigarette with the morning coffee, in front of the TV in the evening, and similar occasions.
These may be some persist for years, and the danger of this is that they can cause feelings of something resembling the physical symptoms and thereby risk of relapse.
Consequently, it is extremely important that you make a battle plan before you quit smoking.
A really good idea are tools to help you through the physical addiction period, but also that you are preparing mentally, so you try to realize that your life not will be impaired by smoking cessation but to the contrary is worth the whole game.
There is not much idea of stopping to smoke if you feel that it is a deprivation not to smoke for auntie Anna's birthday or on your vacation, etc.
To put it short, think positive and think that you are doing something really good for yourself and your surroundings simultaneously.
If you smoke again, do not disappear.
Typically, it can take between 3-6 attempts to quit, and sometimes even more.
Think rather that you learn something for every trial.
How you fell in the last time, and what you should be aware at the next stop trying? This increases your chance for a genuine cessation and to get out of your addiction.
Typically, a sense of restlessness will come, when the smoker has not smoked a cigarette in a while.
Normally the smoker will smoke a cigarette, and the desire is driven, until the urge arrives the next time.
The time interval for this varies from smoker to smoker.
Some may only smoke at parties, while others may can do with just two to three cigarettes a day, still others must have the desire fulfilled on an hourly basis, and some light one cigarette in the other.
Generally speaking there are two forms of dependence.
One is the physical, resulting in restlessness, suction in the stomach irritation, difficulty concentrating.
The second is at the psychological level, as it may seem pleasant to smoke and that people come together socially.
All have probably heard that smokers are more fun to be with than non-smokers.
Physical what happens is when we started smoking, the brain begins to form multiple receptors, or butterfly nets if you like.
The chemical composition of Nicotine is very similar to a brain own message signals.
Those butterfly net which the brain already has to this substance starts to grow in order to cope with nicotine as well.
When so you decide to stop smoking, the brain can't catch butterflies, and then the physical symptoms emerges.
The problem is that these receptors does not disappear by themselves, but by not feeding them, they gradually fall asleep.
It takes only a few cigarettes to get them to wake up again, and then you are already back in the habit.
When stopping smoking it will typically take 3 months before the physical symptoms are gone.
Within the first weeks, there will be many symptoms, sometimes it can feel like a struggle from hour to hour.
But in reality the physical symptoms rarely lasts more than 3 minutes per time.
But unfortunately, there is also the psychological symptoms to fight.
Many believe that the missing something, typically if it is to a party, but if we have been accustomed to a cigarette with the morning coffee, in front of the TV in the evening, and similar occasions.
These may be some persist for years, and the danger of this is that they can cause feelings of something resembling the physical symptoms and thereby risk of relapse.
Consequently, it is extremely important that you make a battle plan before you quit smoking.
A really good idea are tools to help you through the physical addiction period, but also that you are preparing mentally, so you try to realize that your life not will be impaired by smoking cessation but to the contrary is worth the whole game.
There is not much idea of stopping to smoke if you feel that it is a deprivation not to smoke for auntie Anna's birthday or on your vacation, etc.
To put it short, think positive and think that you are doing something really good for yourself and your surroundings simultaneously.
If you smoke again, do not disappear.
Typically, it can take between 3-6 attempts to quit, and sometimes even more.
Think rather that you learn something for every trial.
How you fell in the last time, and what you should be aware at the next stop trying? This increases your chance for a genuine cessation and to get out of your addiction.