Nicotine Withdrawals
Is this a big problem you face when you stop smoking?
Almost every smoker I know blames their cravings, excessive eating, headches, irritable moods, uncomfortable bodily feelings and even sore arms and knees down to nicotine withdrawals!
The simple truth is that your nicotine withdrawal cannot cause all these things! For a start, the amount of nicotine you inhale is so little that you cannot become addicted to it! Ok so you're thinking - what? Everybody knows that nicotine is addictive!
Well that's what we've all bee led to believe. So let me give you a few small examples to clarify my point. Nicotine is a poison. If you were to inject the total amount of nicotine in each cigarette into your body, or drop it on your tongue - you would die in a matter of seconds.
Between 60 - 90% of the nicotine in each cigarette dissappears in the sidestream smoke ( also known as second hand smoke), so you are only receiving a fraction of the nicotine you believe you are.
Each and every sinlge night since you started smoking, you have slept anywhere from 6 - 10 hours. But have you woken up every night on the hour or every forty five minutes to have a cigarette? We both know the answer to that one!
If nicotine is more addictive that heroin how come you can go each and every night without a cigarette for seven or eight hours, while a heroin addict will suffer heavy sweats, go into shock, experience uncontrolable kicking movements and will get dihorrea, if they don't get their fix?!!
So all those side effects you get when you stop smoking are not down to your nicotine withdrawals because you are not addicted to nicotine! If your body really were dependent on the substance, which is a poison, you would need your nicotine fix right throughout the night wouldn't you!
The terrible side effects you experience when you stop smoking are not nicotine withdrawals, but they are the symptoms of your body's heavy cleaning process. Each cigarette has 4,700 chemicals in it and each year you smoke you deposit 3/4 of a cup of tar into your lungs.
This is going to require some heavy duty clenaing to remove. So your body is stressed and under a huge strain to remove those chemicals. So no wonder you are going to feel off and uncomfortable.
When you have a stomach bug you feel bad don't you? That's party because your body is working overtime to remove and kill off the bug. It's the same with smoking.
You're not experiencing nicotine withdrawals, instead your body is out of sync as it tries to remove the nicotine, lead, candle wax, lighter fuel, carbon monoxide and tar in each cigarette, from your body.
The next time you think to yourself I can't take these nicotine withdrawals, remember that you feel this way because your body is trying to remove these chemicals from your body, not get more!
The best ways to solve these feelings you've confused with nicotine withdrawals? Eat. That's what I said! If you eat the right kinds of foods, you won't gain weightt, and you will be giving your body the energy it needs to clean out all the gunk.
Almost every smoker I know blames their cravings, excessive eating, headches, irritable moods, uncomfortable bodily feelings and even sore arms and knees down to nicotine withdrawals!
The simple truth is that your nicotine withdrawal cannot cause all these things! For a start, the amount of nicotine you inhale is so little that you cannot become addicted to it! Ok so you're thinking - what? Everybody knows that nicotine is addictive!
Well that's what we've all bee led to believe. So let me give you a few small examples to clarify my point. Nicotine is a poison. If you were to inject the total amount of nicotine in each cigarette into your body, or drop it on your tongue - you would die in a matter of seconds.
Between 60 - 90% of the nicotine in each cigarette dissappears in the sidestream smoke ( also known as second hand smoke), so you are only receiving a fraction of the nicotine you believe you are.
Each and every sinlge night since you started smoking, you have slept anywhere from 6 - 10 hours. But have you woken up every night on the hour or every forty five minutes to have a cigarette? We both know the answer to that one!
If nicotine is more addictive that heroin how come you can go each and every night without a cigarette for seven or eight hours, while a heroin addict will suffer heavy sweats, go into shock, experience uncontrolable kicking movements and will get dihorrea, if they don't get their fix?!!
So all those side effects you get when you stop smoking are not down to your nicotine withdrawals because you are not addicted to nicotine! If your body really were dependent on the substance, which is a poison, you would need your nicotine fix right throughout the night wouldn't you!
The terrible side effects you experience when you stop smoking are not nicotine withdrawals, but they are the symptoms of your body's heavy cleaning process. Each cigarette has 4,700 chemicals in it and each year you smoke you deposit 3/4 of a cup of tar into your lungs.
This is going to require some heavy duty clenaing to remove. So your body is stressed and under a huge strain to remove those chemicals. So no wonder you are going to feel off and uncomfortable.
When you have a stomach bug you feel bad don't you? That's party because your body is working overtime to remove and kill off the bug. It's the same with smoking.
You're not experiencing nicotine withdrawals, instead your body is out of sync as it tries to remove the nicotine, lead, candle wax, lighter fuel, carbon monoxide and tar in each cigarette, from your body.
The next time you think to yourself I can't take these nicotine withdrawals, remember that you feel this way because your body is trying to remove these chemicals from your body, not get more!
The best ways to solve these feelings you've confused with nicotine withdrawals? Eat. That's what I said! If you eat the right kinds of foods, you won't gain weightt, and you will be giving your body the energy it needs to clean out all the gunk.
Labels: Nicotine Withdrawals
posted by Daniel Fargher at
10:31 AM
2 Comments:
wow never thought of it that way... especially with the 'withdrawl symptoms'. you always think, "ugh this is cause im not smoking, one might make me feel a little better", but in reality, ones just gonna make the clean out last longer.
thanks i really appreciate it
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Anonymous, At
May 21, 2008 2:18 AM
Hey,
No problem! Also don't forget that it takes 72 hours to remove nicotine from your system. And removing the nicotine puts your body under a lot of stress.
So if you try to cut down or like you say have 'just on', you're just prolonging the time it takes to remove the nicotine and dragging out the uncomfortable feelings you get!
Glad you enjoyed the post
By
Daniel Fargher, At
May 22, 2008 9:02 PM
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