Re: Help re anxiety!

Scorpy, google the terms "smoking, acetylcholine and neuroreceptors" and I
think you'll find a lot of information.

I was first made aware of this issue here in the group by a quitter who had
consulted with a neurologist about what happens in the brain when we quit.
The basic idea I got from him was that nicotine subverts the normal chemical
balances in the brain by attaching to receptors normally reserved for
something else. The brain adapts to a nicotine rich environment, and by the
time most of us we quit we are lacking the proper hardware to properly
create and process the neurochemicals we used to manufacture before becoming
addicted. It takes several weeks for the system to ramp up again.

This is going by memory now; my quit is long behind me so I may have some of
the details wrong, but that's basically how I remember it.

Good luck; I'm hoping this will be the right move for you.

hugs,

elle
5y

"scorpy66" <scorpy_dot_66@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:edsve15bephg9ra7dfq4se8kgks237k9e0@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:55:29 -0400, "elle_oof"
> <worldscutestdogREMOVE@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Hello, scorpy.
>
> Hi elle :o)
>>
>>I'm going to go against the grain here and offer the following.
>>
>>It takes somewhere on average between six and twelve weeks for the
>>neurochemistry in the brain to really re-balance after stopping smoking.
>>The initial 72 hour period which people often invoke regarding "getting
>>nicotine out of the system" is just the beginning and has little bearing
>>on
>>actual, physical recovery time.
>
> I am so interested in this and have googled away trying to find out
> how the brain readjusts after quitting smoking but came up with very
> little. Do you have any links/refs about this? I'm a psychology
> teacher and like to know these things!


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