Smoking Addiction
Smoking addiction begins when nicotine dependence and drug addiction occurs. Nicotine is the drug in tobacco that causes addiction. Every smoker is addicted to a slightly different combination of “stimulants” in cigarettes and the act of smoking. A smoking addiction means a person has formed an uncontrollable dependence on cigarettes to the point where stopping smoking would cause severe mental, emotional, or physical reactions. A stimulant is the addictive property in a cigarette that keeps you craving for more, even though you know you shouldn’t. Smoking is a way of settling for so much less than you deserve. It’s self-destructive behavior that tends to trickle to other areas of your life. Once you quit smoking, positive changes start to happen. The reason why so many people fail to stop is because of drug addiction.
Smoking changes us, and those changes happen gradually, over a long period of time. Beginning smokers usually experience nausea, dizziness, headache, stomach upset, coughing and other uncomfortable symptoms. But people who continue to smoke soon develop a tolerance to these symptoms, until they become unnoticeable. When no cigarettes are smoked for a while, the smoker doesn’t get any nicotine. And it is the lack of nicotine that produces unpleasant physiological symptoms in the body, therefore addiction treatment is neccesary. Medically, these symptoms are called “withdrawal effects.” Many smokers don’t realize that nicotine’s effects on the heart, the nervous system, and the endrocine system are significant contributors to the relaxation, alertness, stress relief, and other good feelings they experience.
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