Why Nicotine in Cigarettes Can Relieve Anxiety in Smokers ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2012)Gary Torres

Cigarettes have become something normal in our society, and smokers

even more. However, since a few years ago, some private companies and

governments are trying to reduce the amount of people who smoke, either

showing shocking pictures on the packs of cigarettes as showing publicity on

TV or on the streets. Nowadays we can notice the extreme regulations that

governments have created in order make people stop smoking and also for

respecting people who don’t smoke. Regulations such as smokers and non-

smokers zones in restaurants, or the no smoking rule in public areas are quite

a big deal for addicted people who like to smoke everyday. But are these

entities really concerned on how to make people quit smoking?

Most people experience a relaxing or euphoric feeling when smoking.

This feeling, however, lasts for a very short time and is often followed by

increased heart rate and restlessness. This is when compulsive smokers would

light up another one. It's how the addiction gets started.

Scientists have found that low doses of nicotine in our organism can be

the path for new therapies which stop the feeling of anxiety when a smoker

quits smoking. Nicotine acts like a key that unlocks nicotine receptors in the

brain. Usually that key opens the receptor, but at other times nicotine is like a

key that has gotten broken inside of the lock.

I think this is a very good way of using the same element which causes

death as an element which saves lives, considering all the sort of effects that a

person would have after treatment, because in my opinion, the publicity and the

shocking pictures haven’t been as effective as they were expected to be. New

kinds of therapies are needed and I’m sure scientists are going to continue to

seek new solutions not only for the problems that we are facing nowadays, but

also for the issues that we are going to confront in the future.