Released on = August 31, 2006, 10:31 am

Press Release Author = Tony James

Industry = Healthcare

Press Release Summary = Once the most common new year's resolutions is to quit
smoking. Sadly, some people make the resolutions and start smoking the very next
day! Nicotine is an extremely addictive drug and before you quit smoking, you ought
to understand how it can affect your body, and then continue to choose the right
quit smoking program to fit you personally.


Press Release Body = Once the most common new year's resolutions is to quit smoking.
Sadly, some people make the resolutions and start smoking the very next day!
Nicotine is an extremely addictive drug and before you quit smoking, you ought to
understand how it can affect your body, and then continue to choose the right quit
smoking program to fit you personally.
Nicotine is also known as alkaloid - its chemical name. Many plants contains
alkaloids are poisonous and it is know to be bitter when consume. Other than
cigarettes, nicotine has also other uses such as used as one of the chemical in weed
killers and insecticides. In fact, a human will die if nicotine equivalent to two
and a half cigarettes would to be injected directly into a human's body bloodstream.

By smoking the nicotine would enter the bloodstream through the lungs. It then
rapidly travels to the brain, causing a chemical reaction and thus changing the way
you feel. Your brain will eventually be highly dependant on nicotine along with
other chemicals. Thus, lack of smoking will cause your brain to react in a certain
way, causing withdrawal symptoms.
Nicotine is more addictive than heroine. As time passes, smokers need to smoke more
and more in order to feel the nicotine effect when they first smoked.
Nicotine has various effects on different people. Some smokers claimed that nicotine
relaxes them when they are angry or upset. Others have also claim to keep them
energetic throughout the day when they are tired. This is also taken into account
the amount of intake of nicotine. Nicotine will cause the heart to beat faster than
its normal rate, cause rising blood pressures, constrict veins blood flow, pump out
adrenaline that raises metabolism and also suppress hunger.
Nicotine interferes with impulse transmission between nerves. One of the chemicals
in the brain which causes a pleasurable feeling is called the neurotransmitter
dopamine, nicotine raises the level of this chemical which will cause a smoker to
experience a pleasurable feeling. Other chemicals affected by nicotine are
serotonin, which controls mood, norepinephrine, which affects arousal and appetite,
and beta-endorphin, which is able to reduce anxiety.
Cigarette companies are pumping in a lot of money to research on to improve their
cigarettes to make it more addictive to people, and also spending a lot of effort in
public relations to brand the image and lifestyle of a smoker, and trap people into
thinking that smoking is an ultimate lifestyle.
Tony James is an ex-smoker for 15 years and is currently helping smokers to quit
smoking with ease without the discomfort of cravings or withdrawal symptoms.

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