
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.
Despite wanting to quit, many people who smoke find it difficult to stick with it in the long term. Almost half who try to quit without support will not manage to stop for longer than a week, and fewer than 5% are able to keep it up for one year. Several products and services have become available to assist smokers in finally kicking the habit. The ‘quit smoking’ movement has become a growing industry.