The good news is that anyone can choose to not smoke and anyone can kick
the habit if they want to bad enough. Nicotine is nicotine—however it is
delivered. Smoking remains the leading preventable cause of sickness and
mortality, responsible for over 400,000 deaths in the United States each year.
The worst health consequences associated with smoking (e.g., cancer and heart
disease) are linked to the inhalation of tar and other chemicals produced by
tobacco combustion; the pleasurable, reinforcing, and addictive properties of
smoking are produced mostly by the nicotine
contained in tobacco. [Using PET
Scans, researchers at the University of Michigan (in the first
human study) showed that (like
heroin and morphine) smoking cigarettes stimulates
the brain's production of
dopamine and chemicals known as opioids. Smoking cigarettes triggers the release of
addictive feel-good brain chemicals, notably dopamine and
opioids. It appears that smokers have an altered opioid flow all the time, when
compared with non-smokers.] According to WebMD, e-cigarettes are already a booming,
billion-dollar industry, on track to outsell tobacco products within a decade. If
you don’t smoke, never start. If you do smoke, get help to quit—for your life
and health and the life and health of those whom you love.
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