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Tenspace wrote
Thanks everyone! I'm now three days without a cigarette, and I haven't yelled at anyone since 8am this morning! :D
Scat, that is excellent info. I'm printing it out and carrying it around with me. Exactly what I was looking for, a physiological description of what's going on.
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I am pleased to be of service. Warm and fuzzy thoughts of you carrying my words around.
Keep up the fight to retrain your brain!!
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Choobus wrote
IS there any data on low levfels of nicotine? I can get by smoking one a day, which seems inconsequential, but if I stop for a week I feel like I have to smoke. Is this just psychological, or is it addictive even in such small doses?
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Choobus my dearie, you are not addicted. To cigarettes.
There are a few studies out there on tobacco chippers to that effect:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract
http://www.uic.edu/depts/psch/abstra...sselabs09.html
To my deterministic materialistic mind, there is no such thing as a non-physical or so-called "psychological" addiction, as it all has to come down to physical actions in physical brain cells at some point.
I would say that since the evidence is pretty good that chippers do not experience withdrawal and do not have altered nicotine metabolism, there is no basis for calling it addiction. So smoking one or two cigarettes per day is a learned behavior in which craving is elicited by very specific stimuli (such as anal) and for who knows what reason, you are the lucky owner of a brain that hasn't generalized the conditioning to associated stimuli.
Nice brain.