YOU NEED NIACIN NOT NICOTINE

POSTED ON JULY 3, 2018 BY CLAYTON SEEK

Do you have a nicotine addiction problem? Your addiction to nicotine could be related to a specific nutritional deficiency. Finally, you can put an end to your nicotine addiction just by adding Vitamin B3, niacin an essential nutrient into your diet.

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Nasty Habit

As most of us already know, including smokers, nicotine addiction is a very nasty habit to maintain. The use of nicotine products can lead to many destructive outcomes. Below are a few examples of nicotine’s negative consequences.

Unhealthy

Nicotine disrupts the brain’s chemistry, which includes creating the addictive dependencies. Long-term smoking eventually damages the respiratory system that will cascade into other health problems. Plus, nicotine deprives the body’s nutritional resources including the B vitamins. Precious nutrients that should be used for growth and repair are redirected to neutralize the poisonous chemical’s threat and to aid removal from body. With nutrients being needlessly used on nicotine detox, the body becomes vulnerable to falling ill to pathogens.

Secondhand smoking is a dangerous occurrence of non-smokers inhaling toxic smoke from smokers. Unfairly, long lasting exposure to secondhand smoking can lead to serious health problems for non-smokers. Sadly, the most severe form of secondhand smoking is when mothers smoke while pregnant. Babies in the womb can suffer serious birth defects.

Also, resources in healthcare are inefficiently being allocated to cater to avoidable nicotine health problems when those services should be spent on acute care. Not to say lung cancer from years of smoking isn’t critical but this problem is preventable.

Expensive

Smoking addiction can be an expense ritual for users. Health conscious legislation of the past has mandated high sales taxes on cigarettes as a restrictive measure. This means cigarette smokers have to pay excessive prices to get their “fix.”

Plus, cigarette smoking can leave strong lasting odors inside rooms, interiors of automobiles, and ruins furniture.

Dangerous

For people living near smokers it can be potentially dangerous. Careless individuals can fall asleep with their cigarettes still lighted and cause fires that can kill others in homes or apartment buildings. Guilty parties can be charged with involuntary manslaughter.

Nicotine usage has a profoundly negative effect on addicts and also the rest of society. It’s important for those with nicotine addiction to end their dependency in order to improve quality of life and to prevent potential tragedies.

Nicotine

Nicotine is a natural occurring powerful parasympathomimetic stimulant found in the Solanaceae plant family. The strongest concentration of nicotine is in the leaves of the tobacco plant. In its natural form, nicotine is a plant defense against herbivores and was widely used commercially as an insecticide in the past.

Why It’s Tough to Quit

Have you ever wondered why it’s so difficult to shake off your nicotine addiction? It’s because the problem is a physiological dependency due to a malnourishment issue. In essence you could be missing key nutrients in your diet that would eliminate the desires for nicotine. The main nutrients are the B vitamins particularly Vitamin B3 in its three forms mostly Niacinamide.

The Biochemistry of Vitamin B3

Vitamin B3 comes in three forms, niacin (nicotinic acid), nicotinamide (niacinamide), and nicotinamide riboside. When comparing the chemical structures of nicotinamide riboside and niacinamide you would find they almost resembles the chemical structure of nicotine. The chart below illustrates the elemental structure differences between the three forms of Vitamin B3 and nicotine, in the order of closes match.

As you can see from the chart above the chemical structures of nicotinamide riboside and niacinamide closely matches nicotine. Even the names of all three B vitamins have nicotine in them. The difference between nicotinamide riboside, niacinamide, niacin, and nicotine are the number of atoms in each elements and the additional oxygen chemical in the three vitamins that nicotine lacks. The dioxygen (O 2 ) molecule that is the make-up of niacin stabilizes its structure and makes it safe to ingest unlike the toxic nicotine stimulant.

The Biological Need for Choline

Niacin is essential for improving circulation, vasodilation, and necessary for choline production. Choline, a “vitamin B-like” essential nutrient, is important for the development and functionality of cell membranes. It’s also the precursor for the neurotransmitter acetylcholine which is responsible for many bodily functions like managing the nervous system, aiding memory, and controlling muscle activity. Our bodies can make small amounts of choline but we must consume larger quantities from food sources to maintain good health.

Choline’s chemical structure is (C 5 H 14 NO) almost similar to Vitamin B3 and nicotine, as seen from the chart above. If we examine nicotine addiction from chemistry, it’s clear why people get hooked on smoking. Since nicotine closely resembles niacin and choline chemically, the addict’s body desperately uses the toxic chemical to bind to the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the mesolimbic pathway. The mesolimbic pathway is the reward center in the brain that gives us the sense of feeling pleasure. Without niacin and choline in smokers’ diet, they will depend on nicotine to fulfill the roles that choline plays in the brain but at the consequence of harming their health. The nervous or jittery behavioral characteristic often seen in nicotine addicts during non-smoking periods is a side effect of choline deficiency. During choline deficiency, the mind signals the need for nicotine to stimulate the neural reward center in the brain and this temporarily relaxes smokers until they need another hit.

Ignorance Creates the Long-term Addiction

Because most people aren’t aware that their nicotine addiction is related to malnutrition of B vitamins, their habits go long-term with almost no chance of discovering the real cause of their problem. If more people knew the truth about their smoking problems, they wouldn’t have to suffer and destroy their health. Simply put, nicotine addiction is a malnourishment problem. Ignorance isn’t bliss, ignorance can be deadly.

The Solution is B Vitamins

The upside is, with knowledge you can end your nicotine addiction and improve your health before your habit develops into serious problems. By eating foods with high concentrations of B vitamins and using nutritional supplements you can reverse your craving for smoking. A daily dose of Vitamin B-Complex 100, (a blend of the essential B vitamins) plus an additional boost of Niacin at 250 mg, can improve your health tremendously!

With that being said, you’ll have to do more than just taking B vitamins. First, you have to want to quit smoking. Second, your diet will have to improve, you’ll need to be conscious about food choices because eating low dense nutrition foods is what leads to cravings for unhealthy consumable items like nicotine. Also, it’s critical for you to learn how cause-and-effect plays into the outcome of your health. For detailed information on improving your health, please visit our blog health section.

If you have a nicotine addiction problem and struggle to put an end to it, maybe it’s time to include B vitamins into your diet. You’ll be well on your way to eliminating your nicotine addiction for good!

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