Cigarette Nicotine Addiction and Remedy

Nicotine is chronic or serious addiction like heroin or cocaine. According to the 1996 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 62 million people in the United States ages twelve and older or twenty-nine percent of the population are cigarette smokers. Nicotine a tobacco component in cigarettes, one of the most used addictive drugs in the United States. 

When a person inhales cigarette smoke, the nicotine in the smoke gets rapidly absorbed into the blood and starts affecting the brain, providing an induced feeling of pleasure. More than 4,000 substances are contained in cigarette smoke, many cause cancer (Common related cancers of the larynx, esophagus, bladder, kidney, pancreas, stomach, and uterine cervix) or damage the lungs. Cigarette smoking has been linked to coronary heart disease, stroke, ulcers, and increased events for respiratory infections. 

Cigarette smoking causes earlier menopause, and pregnant women who smoke or exposed to second hand smoke, increase the risk of having stillborn, premature infants or babies born with low birthright. Children living in an environment were parents are smoking, are twice as likely to have health problems, than parents that don't smoke. According to Worayuth Watcharotayangkoon, general manager of Pfizer (market leader in nicotine replacement products) said "Each year, about 50,000 people die from cigarette smoking or about six deaths per hour.