I just can’t understand why smokers find it so hard to quit smoking when it is notoriously known as unhealthy habit. And why so many youth fall victim by this vice.
Smoking seems to favor the creation of enzymes which facilitates the manufacturing of signalling molecules, like dopamine, into a part of the brain that processes information related to motivation and reward – so really smoking produces neuronal adaptations, similar to those caused by harder drugs, that make it hard for the smoker to quit (the addiction).
Add to it the social (engineering) pressures to stop smoking, which can lead some people to try smoking by curiosity or to continue in defiance in spite of the health risks, and it only makes it more difficult to quit for many smokers.
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