Thanks Bryan, I really appreciate your candor.
Addiction.....the condition of being addicted to a habit......Webster's
I'll let you read the definition of habit. I still mean "habit" the
way I described it.
Skip
At 10:42 AM 6/23/2006, Bryan Savage wrote:
>Skip, you may need a new Doctor.
>
>The nicotine may be out of our system, but that has nothing to
>do with it's addictive power. Research has shown that it is easier
>to stop using heroin than it is to stop using nicotine.
>To use the word "Habit" in connection with nicotine demonstrates
>profound ignorance.
>
>From:
>http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/t980210b.html
>
>Researchers found nicotine, just like cocaine, heroin and marijuana,
>activates dopamine containing neurons in the critical brain pathways
>that control reward and pleasure. This finding supports a convergence
>of data pointing toward at least one major commonality among all drugs
>of abuse: they all elevate levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine.
>
>The only common drug that is more addictive than nicotine, is Crack
>Cocaine.
>
>Bryan
>
>
>
>Skip Higginbotham wrote:
>>Dave,
>>Doc told me that it takes 3 days for the nicotine to get out of our
>>systems........the rest is fighting habit. I found this to be true
>>and the habit thing continued for quite a while until I had been to
>>all the places that I normally smoked before I quit. Eventually it
>>all went away and I feel great...
>>I was cranky too for about a week but got over it.......I
>>think.......have to check with Joyce.(-:(-:
>>Very best to you for quitting!!!!!
>>Skip
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