Cigarette Affect On Mouth?

Yes, cigarettes can absolutely do that. Breathing smoke and 1,000's of chemicals in all day can dehydrate you.

Think of a person who is in a fire and needs to be treated for smoke inhalation. One of the major symptoms is dehydration. Though you might not be breathing in smoke that intensly. You are still breathing in quite a bit of smoke and a lot of the smoke stays in your lungs, even when you exhale the smoke after taking a drag.

Also, smoking hampers circulation. It constricts the arteries and poisons the blood's abilty to carry oxygen. If you have ever seen the inside of a smoker's arteries, you know that it is disgusting.

Another factor that can cause dehydration is smoker's start to mistake their body's signal's for things such as food, thirst, rest etc. for the need for a cigarette and smoke instead.

While the body might send out a signal that it needs water. A lot of times smokers will confuse this with a need for nicotine.

You mention that you're smoking a lot more now, because of an anxiety issue.

Did you know that's what keeps smokers smoking? We all started off smoking on the weekends or here and there, but if you keep building up a tolerance to nicotine. Your body has no choice but to adapt to the poison.

The act of smoking becomes relieving anxieties that the previous cigarette created.

When you smoke a cigarette. It releases unearned dopamine, BUT you have to also understand that your brain needs to regulate dopamine being released. It cannot regulate nicotine, so it has no other choice. It has to turn down it's sensitivity to naturally release dopamine. Now what this does is make the smoker rely a lot more on the cigarette just to feel "normal".

Also, nicotine has the ability to fit the smoker's adrenaline locks. As nicotine metabolizes. The smoker is left with a heightened anxiety. Cortizol is being pumped into the bloodstream, creating a FALSE feeling that something is wrong.

The smoker then smokes a cigarette which temporarily switches off this false feeling.

Do you see the irony of smoking? It is essentially the act of relieving an anxiety that the previous cigarette created.

If you are facing stress in your life right now. Understand that smoking does not relieve stress. It creates it. Smoking can only relieve withdrawal.

Stress causes a physiological reaction that causes nicotine to get pulled out of the bloodstream at an accelerated rate. So now the smoker not only has to deal with what is making them stressed, but on top of that they are in the begining stages of withdrawal.

So the smoker will smoke a cigarette which will then relieve the withdrawal and then the smoker thinks that it helped relieve their stress. Whatever is making that person stress in the first place is still there. The smoker is more likely to be able to deal with it after they smoked because they won't have the compounding problem of withdrawal to deal with.

Whatever problems you are having right now. Smoking is only an added burden to it.

Smoking creates anxieties. Smoking makes people depressed.

The best thing you can do is to quit smoking. As of now, you're smoking 7,300 cigarettes a year. Think about that.

I have been quit for about 3 years and 2 months. I smoked two packs a day at least. Since I quit, I have not smoked over 46,000 cigarettes.

It really is disgusting when you put it into perspective like that, but that's what it is. Absurd and disgusting.


Eric