Mental Health News

Drug addiction is always a serious matter, even when it’s just a cigarette every now and then.  It’s possible to develop symptoms of withdrawal even when you only few a few cigarettes a week.  And if you’ve been smoking regularly for years your body will have built up a significant amount of toxins as well as having a nicotine addiction. 

Millions of people have realized what a monkey on their backs, the nicotine addiction can be.  It not only affects your body, but your mental health, because there is more to an addiction than just the physical effects.  You’ll also have the psychological addiction, which experts have said is the hardest to break.

There are some things to be aware of when you first attempt to break your cigarette drug addiction.  Nicotine will stay in your system for up to five days after you stop, but as this slowly breaks down and moves out of the body you’ll start to experience the withdrawal symptoms. 

Classic Symptoms of Physical Withdrawal are:

• anxiety,
• food cravings,
• lethargy,
• increased sinus inflammation and runny nose and
• bad breath.

Don’t worry too much over these symptoms as they don’t last more than a couple of weeks.  After that you’ll just be dealing with the urge to smoke that can occur in situations that are similar to when you used to smoke or specific times of day when you would smoke.  It can take a long time to retrain the mind and body not to have that urge after even this ‘common’ drug addiction.

Just be aware of your triggers and work on keeping your mental health positive.  When an urge strikes you, go and do something else to help take your mind of off it.  Most urges only last a few minutes so if you can make it through that moment you’ll be okay.