A quick note on withdrawal symptoms
Nicotine is an appetite suppressant and therefore substitutes your body's natural craving for food. The way nicotine acts an asn appetite suppressant is that it blocks the release of insulin into your blood. And insulin controls the amount of sugar of your blood.
When there is no insulin (due to nicotine's precense) your blood sugar levels are extremely high - prompting your body to think that you are full - as there is plenty of sugar in your blood it thinks you've eaten enough food.
But when you stop smoking your blood sugar levels plummet suddenly - as there is no nicotine to prevent insulin from regulating your blood sugar levels. This sudden and extreme drop in sugar can cause discomforting and unpleasant side-effects. These side-effects include headaches, nausea, irritability and other such symptoms.
These symptoms are commonly refered to as withdrawal symptoms. It is a lack of sugar that is responsible for your withdrawal symptoms, and not as you have been lead to belive - because you are addicted to nicotine.
When you stop smoking suddenly, without providing your body with the vitamins and minerals it needs, you are unprepared for the blood sugar issue.
When you smoke those symptoms and side-effects are covered up by your next cigarette - insulin is blocked from being released and your bloood sugar levels shoot up again. you then rationalyse that you are 'addicted' as this is an obvious sign that your body needs nicotine. The truth is that nicotine causes those withdrawal symptoms by playing with your insulin levels.
It only takes 3 days (72 hours) to remove nicotine from from your body, so when you stop smoking you need to manage your blood sugar levels.
You can do this by eating healthy meals, plenty of fresh fruit juice, healthy snacks and vitamin supplements. This makes the process a whole lot smoother than you ever thought possible.
So stock up on healthy food and stick to it for at least a couple of days before you stop smoking and definitely the few days afterward.
When there is no insulin (due to nicotine's precense) your blood sugar levels are extremely high - prompting your body to think that you are full - as there is plenty of sugar in your blood it thinks you've eaten enough food.
But when you stop smoking your blood sugar levels plummet suddenly - as there is no nicotine to prevent insulin from regulating your blood sugar levels. This sudden and extreme drop in sugar can cause discomforting and unpleasant side-effects. These side-effects include headaches, nausea, irritability and other such symptoms.
These symptoms are commonly refered to as withdrawal symptoms. It is a lack of sugar that is responsible for your withdrawal symptoms, and not as you have been lead to belive - because you are addicted to nicotine.
When you stop smoking suddenly, without providing your body with the vitamins and minerals it needs, you are unprepared for the blood sugar issue.
When you smoke those symptoms and side-effects are covered up by your next cigarette - insulin is blocked from being released and your bloood sugar levels shoot up again. you then rationalyse that you are 'addicted' as this is an obvious sign that your body needs nicotine. The truth is that nicotine causes those withdrawal symptoms by playing with your insulin levels.
It only takes 3 days (72 hours) to remove nicotine from from your body, so when you stop smoking you need to manage your blood sugar levels.
You can do this by eating healthy meals, plenty of fresh fruit juice, healthy snacks and vitamin supplements. This makes the process a whole lot smoother than you ever thought possible.
So stock up on healthy food and stick to it for at least a couple of days before you stop smoking and definitely the few days afterward.
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