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Is Nicotine more addictive than heroin?
Aug 13th
Question by Angel: Is Nicotine more addictive than heroin?
I have heard that this is so. Which I find hard to believe. I was a smoker for many years, and gave up cold turkey. I haven’t had a smoke for several weeks, and don’t feel like one.
If it is more addictive than heroin, why are there so many junkies?
Does anybody have any facts?
Best answer:
Answer by thats_tops_aussie
Smoking is habit, heroin is an addiction.
What do you think? Answer below!
Negative Effects of Nicotine Through Smoking
Jan 3rd
When smoking cigarettes, the nicotine present in the cigarettes causes your arteries to constrict, and this consequently leads to the lowering of your skin temperature as well as reduced blood flow to your feet and hands. Your carbon monoxide levels increase and your body is then deprived of oxygen. Your heart will try to pump more blood, and this is something that causes detrimental health effects.
Cardiac diseases and infections are often caused by smoking. The airways are obstructed, and this eventually may lead to death in smokers.
Smoking has been proven to increase the risk for strokes up to fifty percent in smokers. It is also responsible for causing infant death syndrome and complications in women who are pregnant.
The enzyme in the body known as monoamine oxides that is vital for the break-down of excessive dopamine is also destroyed by cigarette contents. It leads you to crave more cigarettes because this pleasure-enhancing enzyme is reduced to a minimum.
Cigarette smoking does not only harm your health. It is hazardous to the people around you also. Only some of the negative effects of smoking are asthma, bronchitis, bad circulation and respiration.
There is very little that needs to be thought about when making the decision to quit smoking. By quitting this habit, you will not only protect yourself and your health but the ones of those around you.
Stop Smoking today and start living a healthier more vibrant lifestyle!Give up smoking to start a new life. You will feel fresh when you stop smoking and live a healthy life.
What You Need To Know About Nicotine To Help You Quit Smoking
Jan 2nd
When it comes to addiction, some people may naturally think that it only applies to drugs such as heroin or cocaine. It wouldn’t be surprising if you hear some people actually saying that they are not addicted to cigarettes at all and as if they can quit at will.
Unfortunately, the reality is that as much as some smokers would not want to admit that they are addicted to cigarettes, studies have shown that nicotine is indeed more addictive than heroin. This mentality can be dangerous, because the smoker will not be prepared to position his or herself to quit smoking.
Nicotine is the main substance in cigarettes that makes you addicted that wanting to smoke more and more. Even in small substantial amounts, nicotine can be lethal. Just a drop of pure nicotine on your skin could end up killing you.
When you start smoking a cigarette, it will only take seven seconds for the nicotine to reach your brain. What you may not know is that is actually faster than nicotine being injected into your veins.
The fact that nicotine can reach your brain cells so quickly is what also makes it so addictive.
What you may not know is that cigarette companies have spent millions of dollars have on research to ensure cigarettes are design in a way to most effectively deliver nicotine to your body?
Once nicotine is in your brain, it will make you ‘feel’ good by stimulating certain parts of your brain cells. The more you feed your brain to nicotine, the more your brain will be used to it. The sudden lack of nicotine fed to your brain will make your brain crave for it, and hence the whole feeling of addiction.The relaxation effect comes from satisfying your addiction rather than actually relaxing it, giving the false feeling that cigarettes actually help you to reduce stress! The truth is it certainly doesn’t!
What’s more dangerous is that your brain will get more used and used to it, resulting in even greater feeding nicotine and you ending up smoking more and more! That’s why most smokers who start with few cigarettes a day can end up with more than 2 packs a day.
