
How smoking messes with your mind
Smoking helps you relax. Or does it?
The link between smoking and mental health is complex with nicotine playing a starring role, not just in poor mood regulation and addiction, but increased stress and anxiety.
Smoking helps you relax. Or does it?
The link between smoking and mental health is complex with nicotine playing a starring role, not just in poor mood regulation and addiction, but increased stress and anxiety.
Despite all the health warnings we get about smoking, one in five of us is a smoker. Yet even as new smokers pick up the habit every day, more people are starting to wish they never had.
Did you know that the vast majority of smokers want to quit? When smokers in America were surveyed, almost 70% said they wanted to kick the habit. But simply stopping is not that easy.