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07 March 2007, 12:49
Smoking changes brain the same way as drugs. Time to Think.
Let’s think in term of quitting smoking, although you are love with ‘smoking’. You have to build up an honest sincere desire to give up smoking. Perhaps you have the felling how it is possible to quit smoking since you love so much to smoke.
Smoking causes long-lasting changes in the brain similar to changes seen in animals when they are given cocaine, heroin and other addictive drugs, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
Someone knowing fully well that if he drives his car in high speed may lead to a serious accident, still he does it. So it is like that you know smoking is bad for you but still you enjoy smoking.
A study of the brain tissue of smokers and nonsmokers who had died showed that smokers had the changes, even if they had quit years before, the team at the National Institute on Drug Abuse reported.
You have to make up your mind to develop the desire to quit. You can now plan to draw up a list of merits of your smoking. You can also make a list of de-merits of smoking recently you experienced.
"The data show that there are long-lasting chemical changes in the brains of humans," said Michael Kuhar of Emory University in Atlanta, who was not involved in the study.
Be generous and make list of most idealistic reason that could lead you to quit smoking. You may like to prove yourself a great economist “save money for tomorrow”, “be honest to your family”, “The most obedient husband” etc.
Go on reading the lists everyday. It will motivate you fast to quit smoking.
"The chemical changes alone suggest a physiological basis for nicotine addiction."
A team led by Bruce Hope of NIDA, one of the National Institutes of Health, analyzed levels of two enzymes found inside brain cells known as neurons.
Fix an appointment with your physician to see a human lungs picture taken out of smoker’s body. Ask your physician what good thing you are going to achieve after you have given up smoking etc.
These enzymes help the neurons use chemical signals such as those made by the message-carrying compound dopamine.
Smokers and former smokers had high levels of these enzymes, the researchers reported in the Journal of Neuroscience.
When you have a definite desire to quit smoking you can really go through deeply with your list of ‘benefits of smoking’. You may take a comparative statement how a non smoker relives boredom while you cannot do without smoking what leads a non smoker to relax and get away with stress etc.
Hope said other studies had seen the same thing in animals given cocaine and heroin -- and it was clear that the drugs were causing the effects.
"This strongly suggests that the similar changes observed in smokers and former smokers contributed to their addiction," he added in a statement.
You should be careful enough to know that much of the positive parts of smoking are temporary with no for reading results to yield good to you.
Experts on smoking have long said that nicotine is at least as addictive as heroin.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 20.9 percent of all adults smoke in the United States, which adds up to 45 million people. And 23 percent of high school students smoke.
You have already examined your benefits you get while you smoke but now is the time to workout on replacement for your cigarettes by and by continue to receive benefits that smoking was providing you. Have a see through within yourself and find out is really the so called benefits giving you any useful atmosphere where you can feel calm and relaxed. If so then try to consider the fact how a non smoker relax.
So, in the list of your benefits add some more points which may replicate other than smoking. You can really feel different than what you are today; if you sincerely try re-invent your life.
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