How does smoking calm you down?

Answer 1

== The notercite help you calm down adicitted The brain freaks out when you are addicted to something. So it creates and urge, a severe wanting. That urge can be viewed as stress, if you are stressing about other things it will all be combined with the brains need for nicotine. Smoking gives the brain what it thinks it needs, letting you relax a bit. However the stress relief is false, for the stress is caused by the addiction. == This does not appear to be entirely understood. Tobacco contains a chemical called nicotine that attaches to receptor sites in the body. That in turn causes the body and brain to release a number of mood-altering chemicals, including epinephrine and dopamine, which is involved in the pleasure response. While nicotine is a stimulant, habituated smokers appear to be able to create either a stimulating or depressing effect by varying the dose of nicotine. The relative contribution of these and other mechanisms to the calming effect of nicotine doesn't appear to be known. Curiously, when nictotine was administered in a study to non-smoking volunteers, it protected women from induced stress, but not men. As that study suggests, the theory which will sometimes be seen that smoking relieves stress solely by relieving the symptoms of addiction appears to be incorrect.