“What makes cigarettes so addictive is the nicotine in the tobacco,” said Dr. Adam Goldstein, director of Tobacco Intervention Programs, University of North Carolina School of Medicine. “Nicotine is the hardest addiction to quit.” According to Dr. Goldstein, #nicotine enters the nervous system within seconds, attaching itself to receptors in the brain that release #dopamine, which is commonly known as “the feel good hormone." He later added that when you try to quit #smoking, “You don’t even have to see someone else smoke, just thinking about it causes withdrawal symptoms.”
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This Is What Happens After You Quit Smoking – 24/7 Wall St.
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Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. Smoking has been identified as a contributing factor to numerous and very serious health problems, including several cancers, heart disease, and respiratory illnesses. Considering all the risks, many people decide to give up the…
"This is about multinational tobacco companies preying upon the Black community for decades, and being the largest killer of Black people out of all the other issues that we have," said Carol McGruder, African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council AATCLC.
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FACEism: How Big Tobacco's targeting of Black communities lured generations into addiction
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In this FACEism report, we examine how Big Tobacco’s aggressive marketing targeted Black communities and lured many customers into a lifetime of addiction.
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Smoking and vaping increase ACE2 levels and virus spike binding in airway epithelium
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A new bioRxiv preprint attempts to make some sense of why certain people experience more severe forms of COVID-19 as compared to others by pointing to the increase in virus binding that occurs in the presence of smoking or vaping.