Understanding Physical Dependency as a Form of Addiction

Added: 01/04/2006

Every one of us has own bad habits. The most widespread bad habit is smoking. Smoking causes physical dependency on nicotine. There are some forms of addiction, among which we can emphasize physical, mental and chemical dependencies. Even medicine or drug that you take may cause addiction (but there are non-addictive drugs, which does not cause chemical dependency). Understanding physical dependency as a form of addiction is the first step towards curing it.

Smoking, alcoholism, coffee, beer and more other habits may cause physical dependency on various chemical agents like nicotine, caffeine and others. Let?s take a look at some forms of addictions and their factors.

Smoking is very harmful for health which may result in physical dependency on nicotine. Not casually in the USA and in all West-European countries persistent anti-nicotine propaganda is carried out. And there are some results - smoking ceases to be a fashion. What do cigarettes enclose? Every one, certainly, knows about nicotine. And that amount of nicotine which is only raises the central and peripheral nervous system which responds a spasm of fine blood vessels due to that arterial pressure grows, breath becomes frequent. Smokers assert that mental faculties and general tone rise after smoking.

Except for nicotine, the structure of a tobacco smoke includes water, carbonic gas, ketones - the simple organic compound remaining after combustion of tobacco leaves. Pitches (viscous substances) are soaked up and act in a blood channel, and then are deduced with urine. It is known that presence of such irritating substances in a bladder promotes development of a cancer of a bladder. Nicotine, ketones and pitches are postponed by a dark layer on teeth, accelerating their destruction; settle on mucous bodies of breath.

These "slags" make fragile walls of bronchial tubes low-permeability that subsequently results in a chronic bronchitis - characteristic disease of smokers, and further to emphysema lungs - heavy chronic ailment, when all organs experience hypoxia, choke with lack of oxygen. There several specialists` advices for those, who can?t stop smoking, the most basic of them are buy cigarettes up to one pack; hide cigarette pack after getting out one cigarette; use cigarettes with filter only; change sort of cigarette regularly; don?t take matches or cigarette lighter; smoke first cigarette after breakfast only; don?t smoke more than one cigarette in a hour; count, how much you economized when started to smoke less.

Alcohol, as well as fat, and sugar are a high-calorific product which causes physical dependency. If you have excess weight, there is no need to add new kilograms. On the contrary, it is necessary to reduce them. After that would be easier for your heart to work. Getting in blood, alcohol beats on bodies of blood circulation. As a rule, the most appreciable consequences of it become the pallor, the complicated breath, a headache: throughput of blood vessels is sharply reduced, and they cannot bring in enough to fabrics oxygen.

As to women ovules, the ovary of the newborn girl contains many millions of follicles. The majority of them degenerates in development of the child, and by the moment of puberty there are some hundred thousand primary follicles. During every menstrual cycle ovules one follicle. On the average for a year, 13 ovule cycles happen; hence, during the whole life no more than 600 follicles ovule.

Thus, as you can see our pernicious habits may cause physical dependency and fatal consequences for our health and even life. Even our treatment with drugs may cause chemical dependecies, so it would be better to use non-addictive drugs in that case.

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