Does being a smoker affect sleep?

Does being a smoker affect sleep?

Chris Idzikowski (Director of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre) gives expert video advice on: What lifestyle choices can affect sleep?; Can certain foods make you drowsy?; Can alcohol make you sleepy? and more...

Smokers can have quite a hard time of sleeping. On the one hand the amount of time that nicotine is actually active in the bloodstream is quite low. So as soon as they've stopped smoking the reaction of not having nicotine around and that can disturb sleep. Generally their ciruculartory systems are quite poor so their breathing is distrubed during sleep. The two add up together to not having a good nights sleep.