What Happens to Your Body When You Smoke?

Smoking is said to stimulate pleasing and enjoyable emotions, and smokers claim that it helps boost their mood, improves concentration. This is because cigarettes contain the addictive substance nicotine that stimulates dopamine in the brain, which is responsible for the "pleasurable sensations."

However, the more you smoke, the more your nerve cells become immune to the pleasure brought on by smoking. As a result, smokers tend to increase their intake of nicotine to get that desirable feeling from smoking.2

Despite the "pleasure" that one gets from puffing a cigarette, remember this: smoking comes with devastating health effects.

Remember while smoking makes you feel good for a period of time, it slowly kills your body, and is the LEADING preventable cause of death.

Tips on How to Quit Smoking

Don't Quit Alone. Telling someone about your decision to quit can give an enormous support when you feel alone in your battle to quit.

Identify Your Triggers. 

Change the What, Where, When and How You Smoke. Altering you habits – the time and places where you used to smoke - can help you during your attempt to quit.

Spring Clean. Wash and throw away everything that reminds you of smoking.

Get Support. It is great if you can get help from communities of former smokers or a clinic that specializes in helping those who want quit.

If You're Going to Do It, Do It! Commitment is key to be successful in your attempt to quit. It will certainly be hard but it is worth it.

Quitting smoking may be hard, but I advise you to do it as early as now. I really believe that having a healthy, smoke-free lifestyle will not only benefit you but your family as well.