Your addiction to nicotine is the one and only reason why packing up smoking is so difficult. If you take a moment to think about what the nicotine is actually doing for you, it might become a little clearer…
Nicotine is a drug like any other and just like other drugs is extremely addictive, when you take it on board, it stimulates your brain and increases the levels of nicotine in your blood stream. When those levels drop, you crave your next hit to top them levels back up again. Cravings can come in a wide variety of symptoms, most of them not very nice – being around nicotine starved people a lot, I can tell you this first hand!
Smokers who crave a cigarette will get anxious, nervous, hungry, restless, irritable, headaches, difficulty with concentration and the list could go on.
What you need to do before you start to quit smoking is plan ahead for these inevitabilities so you can fight them off as soon as you see them surfacing. Not as easy as it sounds but by planning, you are in a much better postition to power through the problems and come out the other side.
Once the nicotine levels in your blood levels dramaticlly fall, you will begin to crave them less and less and the job will become much easier.
Let me leave you with another horrible thought!…
The chemicals in a single cigarette is though to amount to about 4000 different types. Can you imagine what that must be doing to your poor old insides? They dont stand a chance!!
Its never too late to quit…