By Vivek Singh Chauhan
New Delhi, March 10 (Ians) Smoking cigarettes is not merely just associated with different types of cancers or heart diseases but it can also affect your mental health, experts warned on Wednesday.
The health experts emphasized that people think smoking helps in relieving stress and anxiety, however, what they do not know is that the presence of nicotine in cigarettes can cause anxiety symptoms or make them worse.
"Research has shown that smoking initially gives a sense of relaxation and seems to relieve anxiety which is due to nicotine, which creates an immediate sense of relaxation so people smoke in the belief that it reduces stress and anxiety and one gets addicted to the immediate false good feeling," Sahil Kohli, Consultant, Neurology, Narayana Hospital, Gurugram, told Ians.
"However, over the long term nicotine dependence leads to mental illnesses including attention disorders, anxiety disorders and depression which becomes...
New Delhi, March 10 (Ians) Smoking cigarettes is not merely just associated with different types of cancers or heart diseases but it can also affect your mental health, experts warned on Wednesday.
The health experts emphasized that people think smoking helps in relieving stress and anxiety, however, what they do not know is that the presence of nicotine in cigarettes can cause anxiety symptoms or make them worse.
"Research has shown that smoking initially gives a sense of relaxation and seems to relieve anxiety which is due to nicotine, which creates an immediate sense of relaxation so people smoke in the belief that it reduces stress and anxiety and one gets addicted to the immediate false good feeling," Sahil Kohli, Consultant, Neurology, Narayana Hospital, Gurugram, told Ians.
"However, over the long term nicotine dependence leads to mental illnesses including attention disorders, anxiety disorders and depression which becomes...
- 3/10/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
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