The nicotine content found in tobacco plants can make users become addicted. Nicotine is contained in cigarettes, cigars, clove, or other processed tobacco products. Because of these addictive effects, smokers find it difficult to stop smoking.
Nicotine is an alkaloid (base compound containing nitrogen), with a distinctive aroma and clear color. This compound will turn brown when exposed to air. This compound causes smoker's teeth to turn yellow.
Smoking and health problems related to the effects of smoking, including the effects of nicotine, are global health problems, not least in Indonesia. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2015, showed that around 75% of Indonesia's population aged over 15 years are active smokers.
This is the reason Nicotine is dangerous
Nicotine is absorbed through the skin, mucous lining of the nose and mouth, or lungs through inhalation. When smoking, the nicotine produced can reach the brain within 10 seconds after the compound is inhaled.
In addition to making users addicted, nicotine also has side effects that are bad for your health. Among them:
- Causes irritation and sore sensations in the mouth and throat.
- Increase saliva.
- Causes digestive disorders, such as nausea, stomach ache, vomiting, and diarrhea.
- Increased pulse and blood pressure.
- Increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and diabetes.
- Damaging the skin and stimulating premature aging.
- Increasing the risk of getting cancer, especially lung cancer.
- Decreased appetite.
- Impacts fertility problems.
- Causes miscarriages and complications during pregnancy.
- Reducing body endurance.
- Dead.
The following are signs that you are experiencing nicotine addiction, which is the inability to stop using tobacco products such as cigarettes, still want to smoke even though you have experienced complications of health problems, experiencing nicotine withdrawal symptoms, and keep using tobacco products despite knowing that the effects are not good for yourself and people around him. You need to know that nicotine withdrawal can cause irritability, having trouble sleeping, increased appetite, dizziness, sweating, mood disorders such as feeling depressed, and difficulty concentrating.
How to Overcome Nicotine Addiction
To overcome nicotine addiction, you should stop smoking, or use tobacco substitute products if recommended by your doctor. You can consult your doctor to get advice on how to stop smoking, and to overcome the effects of nicotine addiction. In addition, the role of family, friends, co-workers, or the environment, often supports the level of success in stopping smoking.
Medications to overcome nicotine addiction will generally combine behavioral therapy and administration of drugs to help you stop smoking and fight the urge to smoke again.
In addition to consulting and using drugs as directed by your doctor, there are several ways you can do to overcome nicotine addiction, namely:
- Doing exercise regularly.
- Discard and stay away from all tobacco products from around you.
- Avoid hanging out with friends or colleagues who smoke.
- Eat healthy food.
- Make a target when you have to stop smoking, and try to reach the target that you made it.
It takes patience and determination to be completely free of the effects of nicotine. If it is difficult, you can seek medical help from a doctor to find a way to stop smoking that is right for you.
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