Does anybody suffer from anxiety from their first cigarette of the day?

Answer 1

anxiety FROM my first cig...dear goodness, no....my 1st cig and 1st cup of java of the day are maahhhvelous!!!

Answer 2

Yeah, that's why I hate smoking first thing in the morning. But..its like if I try to hold off on smoking, till later on in the day - I get just as anxious. So..I go ahead and smoke. I really want to quit though.
I believe that the anxiety is caused from a rush of adrenaline and dopamine, which nicotine readily stimulates. Since not much adrenaline has built up in your body yet, your first few hits off a cigarette will cause a quick stir-up of these brain chemicals, thus producing temporary anxiety - which even makes some people sick with nausea.

Answer 3

Tobacco is a stimulating substance, although many smokers will say it has a calming effect on them. However, this calming effect is not a characteristic of tobacco. Tobacco is, after all, a stimulating substance that makes people restless.

The calming effect is due to the fact that a smoker becomes physically dependent on tobacco. Because of habitual smoking, the brain gets used to a certain level of nicotine. When this level goes down the brain reacts with withdrawal symptoms. One of those withdrawal symptoms is restlessness. This withdrawal symptom can be temporarily suppressed by increasing the nicotine level. You do that by smoking again. The restlessness disappears, and you feel calm. This explains the calming effect of tobacco. As the brain absorbs nicotine molecules, it becomes tolerant to nicotine.

The tolerance fades quickly, though, and disappears overnight. After the first puff of a new cigarette in the morning, nicotine is back in the brain within 7 seconds. So the effect of a new dose of nicotine is quickly noticeable. . This explains why, according to smokers, the first smoke of the morning is described as more potent, more pleasurable, more anxiety provoking, more dizzying, etc.

The anxiety you experience in the morning is that of night time withdrawal combined with the stimulation caused by the first morning ‘shot’ of nicotine entering your system.

Answer 4

I suffer from OCD and I find that during and after my first cigarette of the day my anxieties do tend to rise alot and I get more panicky. It only lasts about half an hour but it still happens.

Answer 5

Nicotine and caffeine have the same effect on the body, they are both stimulants to our CNS (Central Nervous System) so physiologically speaking every cigarette and caffeine shot produces symptoms of anxiety, it is the psychological satisfaction that conteracts this, first thing in the morning if we are not fully awake we can therefore feel the anxious effects more as our pyschological state is not fully functional.

Answer 6

I think you feel guilty when you have your first cigarette of the day.

Answer 7

I get anxious FOR my first cigarette. It relaxes me and wakes me up. I love it. I really need to quit.

Answer 8

That's not anxiety that's your heart trying to cope with the poison in your blood.

Answer 9

Your mom does. HAHA!!!!!!!! Meet me at the 7-11. I'm the old black lady with a beard and I'm driving a 1982 shopping cart from safeway that I obiviously stole.

Answer 10

why bother with a 'cancer stick'? you really need to start looking at what you want in your life, your last years breathing out of apararighterss or your last years running free from smoke.

Answer 11

hi