Smokers and Mood Swings

"Oh, I'm only a smoker because I get stressed and get anxious having a cigarette helps calm me down." I am positive you wil have heard that before from a cigarette smoker. While smoking is common with smokers with anxiety disorders, smoking actually increases the risk for late development of conditions like these more likely in smokers with no previous history. Aswell, people who have anxierty problems already have worse withdrawals when they try to quit - far more than those with no issues - making it even more difficult.

While there hasn't been a lot of research into this, the link between smoking and negative moods has been researched greatly. Overall negative moods have been seen to largen all sorts of things regarding smoking. People who smoker with negative affects (overall mood) have a worst time stopping smoking and more often give in to the addiction.

Many studies have been carried out that studies smokers in high anxiety situations. The results shows that smokers of traditional cigarettes who smoked normally during these tests had less anxiety than those using no-nicotine cigarettes.

What is so very interesting about anxiety problems and tobacco chemicals is that nicotine heightens the smoker's heart rate, which puts your body in an agitated state. For smokers with high anxiety disorders, that "tranquil" effect that many people have said that smoking has on their bodies, is actually just the relief from the withdrawal symptoms. Whilst the nicotine in the body actually puts one in an agitated state of mind, kind of like anxierty problems themselves, it "feels" calming to smokers because of decreased withdrawal effects.

What happens to these users with anxiety issues when they actually quit forever? The research couldn't be completely sure. Although smoking cigarettes actually increases the symptoms of anxiety disorders making it more challenging to kick the habbit, as soon as the anxiety-riddled smoker definitely quits, it should stop their anxiety being so bad. So have a word next time someone says "it calms me".

Smoking regular cigarettes is dangerous, anyone will tell you that, especially smokers. The electronic cigarette are the healthier way to smoke and greatly lower anxiety. E cigarettes still deliver nicotine, but in small, controlled doses. The e-cig are much cheaper than normal cigarettes, they won't harm you, and it's legal to use them in bars.