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  • You can find out if you’re addicted to nicotine when you stop smoking and see if you experience any of the following: • mood swings • dizziness • fatigue • constipation • trouble sleeping • headaches • anxiety • irritability • tremors • difficulty concentrating • dry mouth • hunger • cravings for tobacco The signs of addiction to cigarettes include: • Smoking more than seven cigarettes per day • Inhaling deeply and frequently • Smoking cigarettes containing nicotine levels more than 0.9mg • Smoking within 30 minutes of awakening in the morning • Finding it difficult to eliminate the first cigarette in the morning • Smoking frequently during the morning • Finding it difficult to avoid smoking in smoking- restricted areas • Needing to smoke even if sick and in bed Reference Links: http://www.inforesearchlab.com/smoketest.chtml#symp1.htm http://www.medicinenet.com/smoking_and_quitting_smoking/page3.htm
  • If you are smoking cigarettes, chances are you're already addicted. It only takes a few weeks during which you smoke daily to get you hooked, and you don't even have to smoke a lot during this time. For teenagers, three weeks of smoking two cigarettes a day is enough. For adults, it's a bit more. http://www.beachpsych.com/pages/cc54.html Addendum: A commenter wrote "Addiction is defined as interfering with life's major activities." First of all, this is most definitely not the definition of addiction. At all. Second, even if it were, smoking would still qualify in today's society, considering how you can't smoke at most workplaces and in many public places.
  • if the first thing when you wake up in the morning, you think "I'd like a cigarette" (whether you can smoke one then or not), or if the last thing before you go to bed you think the same, that's a pretty good sign. Also-if you've ever been without cigarettes or a light, or any way to borrow or obtain either, and you feel even a slight sense of panic-that's a sure sign. You may even be able to control it and put it off, but if that crave is there...you are an addict.
  • I think all these could be telltale hints that you may have a bit of an addiction to cigarettes. You set your alarm clock for cigarette breaks throughout the night. You light up a cigarette while you still have one dangling out of your mouth You go swimming with a lit cig in your mouth Your teeth are the colour of your wall panels. Having a cig is the only way for you calm down after watching a really scary documentary about lung cancer. When you run out of cigs and the shops are closed, you go through all the ashtrays straightening out the longer butts for re-smoking. All your car seats have pin hole burns in them All your clothes have pin hole burns in them All your friends have pin hole burns in them. Fresh air makes you cough! Having a beer makes you wanna smoke! Having a meal makes you wanna smoke! Having a smoke makes you wanna smoke!
  • Look if you feel at anytime like you need/want a cigarette it means YOU are addicted
  • try quitting how hard is it
  • If you feel a craving and you just have to have a cigarette no matter what, that is addiction talking.
  • When you keep asking questions about cigarettes on answerbag, then you know that you are addicted.

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