Nicotine, a colorless, oily compound, is the drug contained in  tobacco that addicts the smoker.
It is the fastest addictive drug  known to mankind, and it can take just one cigarette to become hooked.
Every puff on a cigarette delivers, via the lungs to the brain, a small dose of nicotine that acts more rapidly than the dose of heroin the addict  injects into his veins.
If there are twenty puffs  for you in a cigarette, you receive twenty  doses of the drug with just one cigarette.
Nicotine is a quick- acting drug, and levels in the bloodstream fall quickly to about half within thirty minutes of smoking a cigarette and to a quarter within an hour of  finishing a cigarette. This explains why  most smokers average about twenty per day.As soon as the smoker extinguishes the cigarette, the nicotine rapidly  starts to leave the body and the smoker begins to suffer withdrawal pangs.
I must at this point dispe l a common illusion that smokers have about withdrawal pangs. Smokers think that withdrawal pangs are the terrible  trauma they suffer when they try or are forced to stop smoking. These  are, in fact, mainly mental; the smoker is feeling deprived of his pleasure  or prop. I will explain more about this later.
The actual pangs of withdrawal from nicotine are so subtle that most  smokers have lived and died without even realizing they are drug addicts. When we use the term 'nicotine addict' we think we just
got  into the  habit'. Most smokers have a horror of drugs, yet that's exactly what they  are  - drug addicts. Fortunately it is an easy drug to kick, but you need first to accept that you are addicted.
There is no physical pain in the withdrawal from nicotine. It is   merely an empty, restless feeling, the feeling of something missing,  which is why many smokers think it is something to do with their  hands. If it is prolonged, the smoker becomes nervous, insecure, agitated,  lacking inconfidence and irritable. It is  like hunger  - for a poison, NICOTINE,
Within seven seconds of lighting a cigarette fresh nicotine is supplied  and the craving ends,resulting in the feeling of relaxation and confi dence that the cigarette gives to the smoker.
In the early days, when we fi rst start smoking, the withdrawal pangs and their relief are so slight that we are not even aware that they exist. When we begin to smoke regularly we think it is because we've either  come to enjoy them or got into the 'habit'. The truth is we're already  hooked; we do not realize it, but that little nicotine monster is  already inside our stomach and every now and again we have to feed  it.
All smokers start smoking for stupid reasons. Nobody has to. The only  reason why anybodycontinues smoking, whether they be a casual or a  heavy smoker, is to feed that little monster.
The whole business of smoking is a series of conundrums. All smokers  know at heart that they are mugs and have been trapped by something  evil. However, I think the most pathetic aspect about s moking is that the enjoyment that the smoker gets from a cigarette is the pleasure of  trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquility and confidence that  his body had before he became hooked in the first place.
You know that feeling when a neighbor’s burglar alarm has been  ringing all day, or there has been some other minor, persistent aggravation. Then the noise suddenly stops  - that marvelous feeling of peace and tranquility is experienced. It is not really peace but the ending of  the aggravation.
Before we start the nicotine chain, our bodies are complete. We then  force nicotine into the body, and when we put that cigarette out and the nicotine starts to leave, we suffer withdrawal pangs  - not physical pain, just an empty feeling. We are not even a ware that it exists, but it is like a dripping tap inside our bodies. Our rational minds do not understand it. They do not need to. All we know is that we want a cigarette, and when we light it the craving goes, and for the moment we are content  and confident again just as we were before we became addicted. However, the satisfaction is only temporary because, in order to relieve the craving, you have to put more nicotine into the body. As soon as you extinguish  that cigarette the craving starts again, and s o the chain goes on. It is a chain for life  -UNLESS YOU BREAK IT.
The whole business of smoking is like wearing tight shoes just to obtain the pleasure you feel when you take them off. There are three  main reasons why smokers cannot see things that way.
1  From birth we have been subjected to massive brainwashing telling  us that smokers receive immense pleasure and/or a crutch from  smoking. Why should we not believe them? Why else would they waste all that money and take such horrendous risks?
2 Because the physical withdrawal from nicotine involves no actual  pain but is merely an empty, insecure feeling, inseparable from  hunger or normal stress, and because those are the very times that we tend to light up. we tend to regard the feeling as normal.
3  However the main reason that smokers fail to see smoking in its true light, is because it works back to front. It's when you are not smoking that you suffer that empty feeling, but because the process of getting hooked is very subtle and gradual in the early days, we regard that feeling as normal and don't blame it on the previous cigarette. The moment you light up, you get an almost immediate boost or buzz and do actually feel less nervous or more relaxed, and the cigarette gets the credit.

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