When Allen Carr’s method failed to help you to quit smoking or how to overcome Your nicotine addiction, how to stop smoking. Andrey Andreev

      Notes to Graph 1.

      – Stage 1 begins from the moment of inhaling smoke from that first cigarette or the first instance of secondhand smoke until the first signs of addiction (the appearance of an unconscious rare desire to inhale smoke from a lit cigarette). The duration of the first stage is from one day to a month, depending on the frequency of intake of smoke from lit cigarettes into the human body.

      – Stage 2 shows a pronounced, sometimes not yet realized nicotine dependence, which consists of the systematic inhalation of smoke from lit cigarettes (probably, not so frequent – more than once a week), without any noticeable (or pronounced) deterioration to your health. This stage can last for several years.

      – Stage 3 shows pronounced features of health deterioration. The duration of this stage depends on the general state of a smoker’s health at the beginning of the “smoking experience”, lifestyle, physical activity, other bad habits, etc. At this stage, changes have already occurred in the smoker’s character and morality: irritation, grumbling, hatred for others, laziness – traits inherent in most smokers, however, laziness is due to physical weakness.

      – Stage 4 shows a significant dependence of dopamine production on the presence of nicotine in the blood with significant health deterioration, when inhalation of smoke from lit cigarettes no longer raises dopamine levels to a level that is acceptable for the psyche. The main feature of this stage: a person wants to inhale smoke from lit cigarettes more and more, but their physical condition already limits the consumption of nicotine, because the body is full of poisons.

      TO SUM UP, let’s make the following conclusions: inhaling smoke from lit cigarettes increases dopamine levels in the short term (in first-time smokers – for up to 12 hours, in experienced smokers – only for a few minutes), but decreases its overall level with each day of nicotine addiction. One or two months after the start of continuous inhalation of smoke from lit cigarettes, the dopamine level after its increase from nicotine (immediately after the cigarette is extinguished) will be lower than your baseline dopamine levels (when you did not inhale tobacco smoke at all, i.e. when you were not addicted to nicotine). But you can only feel a short-term change in dopamine levels with your whole body, consciousness and subconsciousness! Therefore, you want to smoke (inhale this smoke).