How Fitness Can Help You Keep Your Smoking Resolution For The New Year
When it comes to quitting smoking, fitness may be the answer to staving off the nagging cravings.
When it comes to trying to quit smoking, it's far from an easy feat. More people are addicted to nicotine in the United States, than to any other drug. Research even suggests that the nicotine found in cigarettes is as addicting as heroin, cocaine or alcohol. Despite the difficulty in kicking the habit, roughly more than half of all smokers have tried quitting for at least one day. Those that attempt to quit often use a variety of quitting assistance methods that include counseling, behavioral therapies, prescriptions (nicotine and non-nicotine), and other alternative methods such as hypnosis. While all of these methods of assistance have their merits, researchers St. George's University of London have found that exercise may be smoker's best bet for kicking the habit.
The researchers at the university studied the underlying mechanism for exercises' way of protecting the body against nicotine dependence and withdrawal. Their research found that moderate intensity exercise markedly reduced the severity of nicotine withdrawal symptoms and increased the activation of a type of receptor that is a target of nicotine. Their findings in the trial of two groups of nicotine-treated mice who exercised 2 or 24 hours a day, ultimately found a protective effect of exercise by reducing the severity of withdrawal symptoms.
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