Am I addicted to cigarettes?!


Question: Am I addicted to cigarettes!?
I have smoked about ten times over the course of the summer, on and off, with friends and sometimes on my own!.!. I kind of enjoy the sensation of having a cigarette in my mouth and (I know this is stupid but please don't lecture) I just feel quite chilled and quite cool when I smoke!. Today I found myself suddenly wanting one, and have found this feeling on a few other occassions!. I just have this incredible urge to smoke, not because I necessarily enjoy the feeling it gives me (I'm not even aware of a feeling accomplished by smoking!) but !.!. I don't know! Aah, please help!. xWww@Answer-Health@Com


Answers:
No - you are not yet addicted in the 'physically dependent' sense - but you are developing the 'habit' of smoking!. Your attraction to the culture of smoking is what first attracts every smoker - but the dependence on the psychoactive chemical (nicotine) will soon follow!. The choice is yours now because you are at the point where you can still decide!. Don't think for one minute that you will be able to stop and start it at will - once addicted you will be it's slave!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

It's a psychological thing - your brain is telling you that you need a cigarette but you really really don't!. I'm a heavy smoker and (like many many smokers) am really struggling to give up!. If you smoked more then it'd be the chemical addiction - which is when the receptors in your brain are poisoned by the nicotine and tell you that you need another cigarette to ease the cravings caused- and you get very anxious without a cigarette - but it's the cigarette that causes the anxiety in the first place!. Whatever you do (I'm not lecturing) - try to resist!!! Good luck!Www@Answer-Health@Com

Please have the maturity to read Allen Carr's 'Easy Way to Give up Smoking'!. I know you're not a smoker (yet), but Carr reveals the concept of smoking for the senselessness that it is in such painfully acute terms that it's impossible to look at it the same way afterwards!. If you do not have the patience to read through the entire book, at least look at the summary on his Wikipedia page:

http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Allen_Carr

I am not lecturing you, I am telling you: Smoking is f*cking stupid!. I smoked for almost fifteen years and all it gave me was yellow teeth, poor lung capacity and a persistent cough!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Stop before it gets worse!. Believe me if you have only smoked that much you aren't addicted, just very well on your way!. Nicotine is the most addictive thing in the world!. I am 32 and have been smoking since I was a teenager and would love to quit!. It is just so hard!. I have tried the gum, the patch and the pill!. I still want one!. I get so ill when I don't have one that nobody can stand me!. Just say NO!!!!Www@Answer-Health@Com

Sounds like an addiction to me!. I have smocked for 11 years now and if i could turn back the clock i tell you i wouldn't have picked up that first ciggarette or would have quit when it wasn't so hard!. Not giving you a hard time but i'll leave you with this



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