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Is smoking a habit or an addiction?

Taking tobacco in any form, whether it is chewed, smoked, inhaled in the mouth and puffed out like a cigar or a cigarette, can be a habit for a short period of time. A habit is something you do repetitively, and automatically. Once you have crossed the line and you are now set into the pattern of highs from your nicotine dependence and then lows, this then becomes an automatic part of your brain function and you are addicted to nicotine. You know you are addicted is that you physiologically get those symptoms. Nicotine is the most addicting substance that a human brain comes in contact with on a milligram per milligram basis then any other chemical, meaning it takes very little nicotine to the human brain to set up the addiction cycle.

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