According to the National Insitute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) , there’s no better example of the deadly power of addiction than nicotine. Unlike other addictive substances, nicotine might not give an instant high — but multiple puffs of one cigarette stick are enough to stimulate the release of dopamine, per the NIDA. Cleveland Clinic describes dopamine as a “feel good” hormone that offers a sense of pleasure. Nicotine’s dopamine-led impact on the brain makes smoking addiction harder to break as dopamine trains the brain to repeat the addictive behavior, as the NIDA explains. Smoking is an issue for nearly 23 million U.S. adults, per the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) . According to the National Institutes of Health , some cigarette smokers also use other illicit drugs, making it harder to kick the habit. A 2012 study published in the journal Addiction estimates that 71% of illicit drug users smoke cigarettes at least once monthly. Smoking lowers your quality of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fewer than 1 in 10 people per year manage to quit smoking. But engaging in physical exercise might offer more positive results when quitting the habit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,1],"tags":[191,6],"class_list":["post-221678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","category-news","tag-fitness","tag-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}