Your hippocampus creates 700 new neurons every day if you’re healthy. So a non smoker will find it easy to adapt and learn new skills and behaviours.
Many studies have now proven this fact.
-John Hopkins University
Nicotine acts on chemical receptors in the brain, including opioid receptors that affect the perception of pain. Repeated nicotine administration can cause adaptations in the brains opioid receptors, which heightens the addictive properties of nicotine and increases the likelihood and severity of withdrawal symptoms associated with smoking cessation.
-By Emma Young
Nicotine can kill brain cells and stop new ones forming in the hippocampus, a brain region involved in memory, says a French team. The finding might explain the cognitive problems experienced by many heavy smokers during withdrawal, they say.
The team allowed rats to self-administer doses of nicotine daily for six weeks. At blood nicotine levels comparable to those found in smokers, they found the creation of new neurons in the dentate gyrus in the hippocampus was cut by up to 50 per cent. Cell death also increased.
In the NSP course we will teach you how to up regulate your dopamine receptors so that you can feel good whilst you’re reducing your daily intake of nicotine gradually.
If you ever needed a reason to quit smoking.