Each smoker extremely clearly realizes that smoking harms him. Moreover, he understands it also without reading the menacing lines on packs of cigarettes, smokers do not read them at all. Besides, how many at the person was money, it becomes always offensive, even at calculation of costs of smoking within a month and what to speak about those who smoke for years … Whose devil hand attracts you to a tobacco stall?
The answer will not surprise you, a name of this devil – nicotine addiction.
Emergence of dependence
When the person smokes a cigarette, nicotine – actually, the cause of dependence, begins to influence the dofinovy centers of a brain – the centers of pleasure. Influencing, it "accustoms" them that smoking is a pleasure. There is a wish for pleasure more. In two hours, nicotine almost finally decays, and the brain demands again pleasant. Here we also try to keep step with the second cigarette.
By the way, during smoking also stress hormones so, opinion that smoking helps to cope with a stress from beginning to end mistakenly are emitted. The brain excretes also serotonin therefore for a while the feeling of pleasure does not allow to notice increase in irritability.
Stages
There are three stages of nicotine addiction:
The I stage – up to 5 years – visible changes in mentality and human physiology are not shown, moreover, the working capacity, ingenuity, health increases. Smoking gains steam.
The II stage – – begins from 5 to 20 years morning cough, bronchitis, unpleasant feelings in heart, the increased arterial blood pressure, disorders of digestion. More than one pack a day are smoked, and the working capacity on the contrary falls.
The III stage – – smoking gains over 20 years automatic character as the sensitivity to nicotine falls. There is a constant feeling of alarm, drowsiness, the increased appetite, the speeded-up cough in the mornings and desire to smoke a cigarette on an empty stomach.
Treatment
Independent treatment of nicotine addiction is possible, only if what he will receive in exchange, it will be more valuable than pleasure from nicotine. Means – risk of loss of appeal, health, life.
When you resolved to leave off smoking, make for yourself the action plan and note the list of medicines from nicotine addiction:
- write what gives you smoking where helps out what feelings causes;
- write for the sake of what you want to get rid of nicotine addiction;
- appoint date of refusal of smoking and hang up it in a visible place, till this day all cigarettes and ashtrays have to be withdrawn from use;
- in the next several months avoid places where you got used to smoke, and the smoking companies;
- replace a habitual cigarette (after awakening, after a meal, behind a cup of coffee) something low-calorie – lollipop, chewing gum, a cup of tea.
List of medicines from nicotine addiction:
- Nikvitin;
- Nikorette (chewing gums, solutions for inhalations, plasters);
- Tabex;
- Champix;
- Lobelin;
- Ziban;
- Mekamiliamin;
- Antabus;
- Zorex.
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