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physical addiction ends when no nicotine left in system?

  • 16-03-2010 5:09pm
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    pwd
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    On this webpage they say that you are no longer physically addicted once you have no nicotine in your system:

    http://whyquit.com/joel/Joel_03_02_cold_turkey.html

    Different places I read says your body should clean out all the nicotine within 48 or 72 hours of smoking.

    Is this correct?
    I've gone cold turkey since friday night, so I'm well past the 72-hour period. I'm finding myself wanting a cigarette more today than on other days. Is that purely psychological then? Can't think of a time when I wanted food or sleep as badly as I want a cigarette today hahaha.

    edit: It's like really needing to pee, in the sense your brain won't let you ignore the fact you really want to pee.


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  • #2
    pwd
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    http://www.healthline.com/blogs/smoking_cessation/2009/11/nicotine-receptors-take-over-month-to.html

    this description seems to fit in more with what I'm experiencing. A good chunk of my brain designated to saying "haveacigarettehaveacigarettehaveacigarette." This article suggests less of my brain will be designated to saying that if I don't have any for a while: I'd rather make better use of my braincells, so more reason not to smoke I guess.


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    Ouijaboard
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    There are various other alkaloids in tobacco along with nicotine and those 4000 other chemicals that can have different degrees of addiction with different people so I don't think that its all down to just nicotine and then your brain.

    It also has to be said that the tobacco itself has a very attractive flavour in its own right. While this is not addictive in itself it can still take a while to release yourself from the connection with that flavour. Hey cigs destroy our bloody taste buds so that the only thing we can taste is burning tobacco, when your sense of taste fully returns for other things then the attraction to tobacco flavour will become less and less an issue.

    Best of luck!


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