lunes, 31 de marzo de 2008

How Long Do Smoking Cravings Last?

Giving up smoking is not as easy as people who never smoked make it sound. In fact many people don't even TRY stop smoking because they start thinking of it as a long painful process. It doesn't have to be that way, but you have to deal with cravings.

Stop smoking is a reverse addiction process. But how addiction begins? It begins when nicotine first enters the brain.

Nicotine is a psychoactive drug causing changes in brain chemistry. Researchers have found that nicotine takes over the reward pathways. These are an part of an area of the brain that rewards good and useful behavior with a feeling of pleasure. It does this by stimulating the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine.


Nicotine must me taken out of the organism little by little. The magic happens around the day 90 when you feel you don't need a cigarette. It is your duty to keep it that way, you may not feel like smoking, but if you smoke you can trigger again the addiction.

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