When someone is repeatedly using a substance and their body has adapted to its presence, they may develop dependence where the drug is necessary for them to function comfortably. Meanwhile, repeated use can decrease the influence of the brain’s cortex, which is responsible for driving deliberate ...
Quitting smoking is stressful. Of course, smoking is also your way of de-stressing. If you quit too many times, you’re creating more stress than you’re eliminating. You may actually be lowering yourstress thresholdrather than raising it. Step 6: Enjoy Smoking If you’re reading this arti...
Brain scans taken during normal smoking activity and 24 hours after quitting show there is a marked increase in a particular kind of brain activity when quitters see photographs of people smoking. The study, which appears online inPsychopharmacology, sheds important light on why it's so hard for...
The second step is to alert your health care provider that you’re quitting smoking. Some people want to quit on their own, and Galiatsatos doesn’t trivialize that. However, he also warns that “you’re working against a product that has seeped into the most subconscious parts of your b...