- Signs of Drug Addiction -
Facts About Smoking Addictions and Cravings

The universal signs of drug addiction are recognized through the behaviours that are brought about by smoking addictions and cravings.

The facts about smoking addictions are clear, all the signs of a drug addiction are present.

Signs of Tobacco Use

Signs of using and addiction are different. The signs of "using" are usually characteristic of the drug. Different drugs will have different signs.

Signs of tobacco use are easy to spot:

• yellow teeth
• wrinkled skin
• persistent cough
• frequent absences from work
• obvious tobacco smell on hair, clothing, hands

Facts About Smoking Addictions and Cravings

Signs of drug addiction are different than signs of drug use.

Drug addiction has specific characteristics. Addictions and cravings result in compulsions and loss of control over the use of the drug despite the negative consequences that may be occurring. Addictions and cravings also lead to denial - which is one of the most powerful coping mechanisms that addicts use to maintain their drug use.

A smoking addiction has all the signs of drug addiction. These signs are universally accepted to be:

1. Compulsion - obsession and preoccupation with finding and using the substance. How many times have you had to go out into the snow or the rain just to smoke a cigarette? How many late night or early morning trips to the corner store because you were out of smokes?
   
   

   The compulsion to use the substance is because addictions and cravings go hand in hand. Without the continued use of the drug, cravings cause the user to constantly seek out and use more of the substance.



2. Loss of control - inability to reliably predict whether the substance use will be damaging.

   It requires a lot of smoking fiction to ignore the compelling body of evidence that smoking is bad for you. Every time you light up a cigarette you are ignoring the fact that this is damaging to you and to those around you. Such is the power of addictions and those cravings!



3. Negative consequences -legal, financial, social resulting from the continued use of the substance.

   Every time you light up you are burning money - literally. There is no other product that you burn for no reason (other than your addiction). Most other combustible products at least produce heat or fuel for cooking. Smoking a cigarette is literally paying somebody else so you can be sick. It has no useful purpose and does nothing but harm you and those around you.



4. Denial - inability to perceive the self destructiveness of the continued use of the substance.

   Perhaps you are thinking of quitting someday. Or you believe that you will quit when the time is right? This is plain smoking fiction designed to release you from the decision and the work to quit smoking cigarettes and quit now!

The facts about smoking addictions and cravings are that you will seek out the drug and continue to use it regardless of the harm that it might do to you and to those around you.

Choosing to ignore these universally accepted signs of drug addiction is further proof of your addiction as it means that you have met the criteria for fact #4 - Denial.

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