Nicotine Addiction
Author: Ric Bai
Isn’t it crazy knowing that there are over 4,000 chemical compounds present in inhaled smoke and yet you tell yourself, like so many others keep telling themselves, that you like smoking and that you don’t want to quit?
It’s not your fault.
Smoking an addiction for a reason, because it is one.
Smoking appeals not only on a physical level, but on a strong emotional one too. This is why it is so difficult to quit, but you can do it! You need a program that doesn’t just help you deal with one side of the addition, but both. Studies show that programs that address both sides of the issue have a higher success rate.
There are many reasons why one would consider quitting smoking: for family, for health reasons, high costs, or maybe all of the above.
Why the addiction?
Your brain produces chemicals that help regulate your moods and if your brain doesn't’t produce enough of these chemicals then you can end up with irritability and bad moods. Nicotine helps to stimulate the production of these chemicals. These chemicals include nor epinephrine, which regulates alertness and arousal, dopamine, which is part of your brains pleasure mechanism, and beta endorphin, which helps to lessen anxiety and pain.
Unfortunately these reactions to smoking are short lived and eventually you crave those feeling again. And sooner or later you trick your mind and body into thinking that smoking is the only way to induce these feelings.
The emotional side of addiction
Thinking back, you find that cigarettes have helped you in many situations: cigarettes have helped you relax in periods of time when you felt stressed or helped keep you more alert in periods of time when you needed to stay awake (like driving home late at night or when you needed to complete a project). Cigarettes might have helped you socially at a party, coffee house, or at work because you automatically have that link to other smokers. When you needed it, it was there for you.
The truth of the matter is you don’t need it as much as you think. You have the ability to be a confident, happy person, without the mood effects of cigarettes. But first you need to quit smoking. Nicotine can stay in your body between 2-4 days once you’ve given up cigarettes. This is why nicotine programs that offer to help you quit smoking can prolong your need for nicotine because your body will continue craving it.
Nicotine withdrawals
When trying to quit smoking the biggest obstacle is nicotine withdrawal. Withdrawals are both physical and emotional. Physically the body reacts to the lack of nicotine and emotionally you are faced with changing your behavior. Both needs must be faced in order to successfully quit smoking. A smoker will normally feel physical withdrawals only a few hours after their last cigarette, but it is even greatest after 2-3 days. Symptoms include: dizziness, depression, frustration, anger, anxiety, irritability, sleep disturbances, concentration problems, headaches, and increased appetite that can last up to a few weeks. It is these symptoms that cause smokers to easily relapse after trying to quit smoking cold turkey.
There are many products out there to help you quit smoking, but when they only address one side of quitting, such as the physical side, you end up having a greater chance of failure.
To reduce this chance it is important to find a program that has products that contain ingredients designed to help you fight the physical withdrawals of quitting and that help you combat the emotional and behavioral side of quitting as well.
To get more information about an all natural withdrawal system.
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Is smoking pot a sin? (serious question)?
Do you believe smoking pot would be against the christian religion if it was not illegal? And i know your not supposed to harm your body but i truely believe smoking pot causes no more risks of health problems then drinking alot of soda. So is it truely a sin?
Ummm to the “bookworm” ive been smoking pot for 5 years and not once have i done any other drugs. And everytime i smoke—i smoke ONE bowl and i feel amazing i smoke two and im getting the cheeto bag and laying down. And it has not decreased my short term memory but i will admit it has took away a little bit of my coordination and reflexs but im willing to give that up. If i drink alot of soda it makes me fat which causes me to not be able to do certain activities which causes me to be lazy so soda can make me lazy? hmm isnt that mind altering in a way too? (btw i wasnt planning on making this big of an argument about the whole soda thing lol)
While I’ve heard that smoking pot might be healthier than smoking cigarettes, that does not make it okay in God’s eyes.
No one can deny that inhaling the smoke from either of these substances is harmful to the lungs, as they both contain toxic tars. This would obviously be “defiling the flesh” which the Bible clearly tells us not to do, if we care to please our Creator, who gave us our life in the first place.
Nevertheless, let’s say smoking pot a couple times is really not gonna do much harm….isn’t there a stigma attached to it? Isn’t it a rebellious action that is associated with those who do not care to have God’s approval? A true Christian would never want to be like that. In fact, we shouldn’t even have close friendships with those who use such substances because God’s word tells us, “He that is walking with wise persons will become wise, but he that is having dealings with the stupid ones will fare badly.” Proverbs 13:20.
Take care.
Being a Christian full of the faith. is smoking pot a sin?
I have smoked heavy in the past but have quit for about a year now.sometimes feel eager to and remind my self of the good ole times ive had with the enjoyment of doing so. question for only christians to answer please thanx.
Do you really think God cares if you smoke a joint? As a matter of fact, that might be a little prideful to think He does really care about you and pot…
God loves you no matter what, pot smoking is hardly a sin, He made the darn stuff…relax.
He might care if you let pot, or any other substance or diversion, get in the way of living a full life…moderation (in everything…including moderation
Is smoking pot a sin in Christianity? ?
if so why?
b/c drinking alcohol is not a sin
i believe it is not what you put into your body but what comes from your reactions
and i so not smoke pot b/c i am allergic to smoke……..
jay walking is also against the law but you see people saying oh no i jay walked im going to hell
some of you people NEED to smoke some pot man!!!!!!
you say your body is temple
then you put all that junk food into it clog them arteries yum yum
see what i mean its all how you look at it
So many misinformed people, bamboozled by propaganda from those who benefit from selling you pharmaceuticals mixed in a lab somewhere to replace the cure God provides.
Study after study shows pot has no harmful long-term side effects. Short-term ones (memory loss) are also greatly overstated and exaggerated.
Marijuana is a medicinal plant that grows out of the ground by the grace of God. How do humans over-rule God? It is used by millions in my nation, U.S.A., to relieve stress and anxiety and depression that is unavoidable living in the world we do. It lifts the spirit and provides hope, the tension leaves the body, the distracting thoughts of a hundred or more stress inducers that pass by each day move away, and a space is created for the conscious to connect with the sub-conscious and the inner voice of peace, a signature left by God on our souls when we are created, can be heard and consulted with.
Do you know what would happen to these people if they could not get relief from the stress and craziness of this world and experience this uplift in their spirituality? I see headlines all the time that tell me what would happen to them and others — more and more violence because yes it takes away anger too. As I said, it relieves stress.
People who live in ivory towers, who have never lived life in the ghetto, down in the trenches where you are kicked in the face by others judging you and looking down at you and ordering you around and mistreating you everywhere you turn, do not understand.
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, to be arrested and to spark the Montgomery bus boycott led by Dr. King, did she commit a sin? I take issue with anyone who says she did.
The law of the land that must be followed above all others is God’s law.
Pot helps with chronic pain, glaucoma, nausea, and a few other things too and research continues.
Is smoking pot a sin?
I want Catholic view
Unfortunately, yes. “Did I get high?” is listed on the examination of conscience when preparing for confession.
*sigh*
Which is a sin – smoking pot or imprisoning people who do..?
Pot smokers know what smoking it is, none smokers have no idea but they may have had a beer, so they can use their imagination.
Let’s keep imprisonment in context as well.
It is technically kidnapping at gunpoint, and being caged like a beast.
So just picture yourself doing that to someone or having it done to you.
A few parting words, see if you can figure out who said the following:
“Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged. ”
“Not that which goeth into the mouth of a man defileth a man; that which cometh out of the mouth defileth a man. ”
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle and herb for the service of man
I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth
some shall… speak lies in hypocrisy…commanding to abstain from meat which God hath created to be received
Wow someone actually used the logic I have been stating for years but in jest…
“I don’t like it so it should be illegal”…
uhuh.
The second is worse.