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Nicotine dependence is the physical vulnerability of your body to the chemical nicotine, which is potently addicting when delivered by various tobacco products. Smoke from cigarettes, cigars and pipes contain thousands of chemicals, including nicotine. Nicotine is also found in chewing tobacco.
Nicotine produces physical and mood-altering effects in your brain that are temporarily pleasing; these effects reinforce your continued use of tobacco and nicotine dependence.
Being addicted to tobacco brings you a host of health problems related to the substances in tobacco smoke. These effects include damage to your lungs, heart and blood vessels. Smokers have significantly higher rates of heart disease, stroke and cancer.
Millions of Americans smoke, and smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Men who don't quit smoking lose an average of 13.2 years of life, while smoking women lose even more - an average of 14.5 years.
Overcoming nicotine dependence is difficult and takes commitment, support and time. The sooner you quit smoking, the better. But even if you're a longtime smoker, stopping your nicotine dependence plus taking healthy lifestyle steps can reverse much of the damage smoking has done to your body.
Nicotine dependence may mean you have these signs and symptoms:
You can't stop smoking. You've made one or more serious, but unsuccessful, attempts to stop.
You experience strong withdrawal symptoms when you try to stop. Your attempts at stopping have caused physical signs and symptoms of addiction, such as craving for tobacco, anxiety, irritability, restlessness, difficulty concentrating, headache, drowsiness, stomach upset, even constipation or diarrhea.
You keep smoking despite health problems. Even though you've developed problems with your lungs or your heart, you haven't stopped or can't stop.
You give up social or recreational activities in order to smoke. You may stop going to certain restaurants or stop socializing with certain family members or friends because you can't smoke in these situations.
Your degree of addiction depends in part on how much you smoke and how long you've smoked.
Tobacco smoke delivers at least 60 known cancer-causing chemicals, tiny amounts of poisons including arsenic and cyanide, and more than 4,000 other substances to your body.
Nicotine is the chemical in tobacco that keeps you smoking. It can be as addictive as cocaine. It increases the release of a brain chemical called dopamine, which makes you feel good. Getting that dopamine boost is part of the addiction process.
Tobacco dependence involves psychological as well as physical factors. You may develop strong, repetitive behaviors associated with smoking. You may smoke at certain times of the day or after a meal or in certain locations or under certain levels of stress. These behaviors and routines that you associate with smoking have to be addressed if you are to overcome your addiction to tobacco.
Anyone who smokes is at risk of becoming addicted to nicotine. Tobacco smoking is a behavior that often becomes established during adolescence. About 90 percent of smokers begin smoking before the age of 21, and many start before age 18.
The younger you begin smoking, the greater the chance that you'll become a heavy smoker as an adult. In 2004, 22 percent of American high schoolers said they were current smokers, as did nearly 12 percent of American middle-school-age children. While the rate of teen smoking has been declining since the 1990s, the decrease seems to have stalled in recent years. That's especially bad news because teenagers who smoke are more likely to use alcohol and other drugs.
Youngsters with two smoking parents are twice as likely to pick up the smoking habit themselves. And, children with friends who smoke are also more likely to try cigarettes. Exposure to tobacco in movies or advertisements, particularly for young people, may influence the decision to start smoking or keep smoking.
You may have tried to stop smoking because you've experienced health problems related to smoking or because you're concerned about potential health problems. If you've tried to stop, but have discovered you can't, talk to your doctor about finding a strategy to help you stop successfully.
When you inhale tobacco smoke, you're ingesting a chemical parade that will march through most of your body's vital organs. The negative health effects throughout your body are numerous, including:
Lungs. Smoking is the cause of most cases of lung cancer. Smoking is also the primary cause of other lung problems, such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Heart and circulatory system. Smoking increases your risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke. If you smoke more than 25 cigarettes daily, your have five times the risk of heart disease compared to someone who doesn't smoke. Smoking 15 cigarettes a day doubles your heart attack risk. Even just one to four cigarettes daily increases your risk of heart disease. Smokers have a higher risk of stroke that nonsmokers do; the more you smoke, the higher your risk.
Cancer. Smoking is a major cause of cancer of the esophagus, larynx, throat (pharynx) and mouth and contributes to cancer of the bladder, pancreas, liver, kidney, cervix, stomach, colon and rectum, and some leukemias.
Appearance. The chemicals in tobacco smoke can dry and irritate your skin, as well as promote wrinkles. Smoking also yellows your teeth, fingers and fingernails.
Fertility. Smoking increases the risk of infertility and miscarriage in women and the risk of impotence and infertility in men.
Pregnancy and newborn complications. Mothers who smoke while pregnant increase the risk of low birth weight, preterm delivery and impaired lung function in their newborns.
Cold, flu and other illnesses. Smokers are more prone to illnesses, such as colds, flu or bronchitis, than nonsmokers are.
Senses. Smoking deadens your senses of taste and smell, so food isn't as appetizing as it once was
MEDICAL TREATMENT
Breaking an addiction to nicotine can be very difficult, and many smokers have to make repeated attempts before they're successful. Quitting smoking is possible, even though it may take more than a few tries.
The benefits of quitting
But, no matter what your age, your health will benefit if you stop using tobacco. Just 20 minutes after your last cigarette, your heart rate goes down. Twelve hours later, the carbon monoxide levels in your blood return to normal. Your lung function improves and your circulation starts to get better between two weeks and three months after your last cigarette. Between one and nine months after quitting, your risk of infections drops and coughing and shortness of breath decrease. After one year, the risk of coronary artery disease drops by half. And, after five to 15 years, your stroke risk will be the same as that of a nonsmoker.
Methods of quitting are numerous
There are many ways to quit smoking, including using medications and getting some sort of counseling or support.
Nicotine replacement therapy
Most nicotine replacement products are available over-the-counter:
Nicotine patch
Nicotine gum (Nicorette, others).
Nicotine lozenge (Commit).
These nicotine replacement products are available by prescription:
Nicotine nasal spray (Nicotrol NS).
Nicotine inhaler (Nicotrol inhaler).
Non-nicotine medication
Medications that don't contain nicotine include:
Antidepressants.
Varenicline (Chantix).
Your doctor may also be able to recommend local support groups or smoking cessation programs. Additionally, some people find that a form of counseling called behavior therapy can help them come up with productive ways to change the behaviors and thoughts associated with smoking.
NATURAL HEALING WITHOUT SURGERY
Smoking causes many problems.
Lung problems including cancer
Anoxia
Asthma
Bronchitis
Pneumonia
Coughing - Shortness of Breath
Deafness
Degeneration of the skin
Smoking can also cause Heart Problems
Angina
Tension
Arrhythmia
Constriction of the Arteries
Coronary Stenosis
Heart Attack
Palpitations
High Blood Pressure
Smoking can also cause:
Kidney Problems - From lack of oxygen and circulation -
Skeletal System - Scoliosis, Compression of the Spine, Spinal Stenosis, Back Pain
Prostate Problem- Swollen prostate, Cancer of the Prostate
Impotency can also be a problem
Acupuncture needles in the ear are very helpful. 90% success rate if the patient wants to quit.
If the patient has no desire to quit there is nothing anyone can do.
We recommend that the patient eliminates all Nicotine poison from there bodies to avoid smoking related health problems in the future. Oxygen from the Lungs connects to the whole body.
With the use of our Hi-Tech energy machine we can eliminate Nicotine poison and other harmful drugs. I.e. Opium, Carbon, Cocaine, and Gases.
When you inhale tobacco smoke, you're ingesting a chemical parade that will march through most of your body's vital organs. The negative health effects throughout your body are numerous, including:
