About 90 % of smokers know that smoking is bad for their health and about 60 % of smokers want to quit. Every week, doctor will hear chain smoker said, “Look doc, I just stopped smoking, and I started smoking low nicotine cigarette”. This unfortunate smoker became the victim of assumption that low nicotine cigarette only sending in a small amount of nicotine into the body. Nicotine is a substance that caused very heavy addiction. Take into consideration the smokers whom had their voice box (larynx) removed because some illness related with cigarette. This is a very large operation, even so 40 % of the smokers will start to smoke again soon after they recovered from the operation.
Cigarette companies could have produced cigarette without nicotine, but they would not because no one will buy their cigarette. A cigarette is a very efficient tool to cause an addiction, very much the delight for the cigarette companies. Cigarette deliver to the brain an amount of nicotine needed to make sure addiction continues in a period of 11 second smoking. If you want to make someone to become addicted for cigarette, you only need a short time between the time they smoke the cigarette and when they feel the result (nicotine in their brain). Average smoker has 40 billions gram of nicotine inside every milliliter of blood.
Nicotine could produce adverse effects, depending on the dose. In low dose, nicotine stimulating your mind, increasing heart beat, and increasing blood pressure. In high dose, nicotine calming down and lowering heart beat. Smokers often did not realize how hard and how often they smoke, to bring in low or high dose. Does low nicotine cigarette really giving low level of nicotine? Yes, but only if we give the cigarette to a smoking machine. If we give the low nicotine cigarette to actual human smoker, the smoker will still receive the same amount of nicotine with cigarette that has higher nicotine level.
The smokers need to feel the nicotine works, so when they smoke low nicotine cigarette, the will smoke harder and more often to get the same dose. Unfortunately, when you smoke harder, you will also smoke more carbon monoxide. This will force your body to produce more hemoglobin that will make your blood more viscous. This will increase the risk of getting a stroke attack. So, it is more dangerous to receive usual nicotine dose with low nicotine cigarette. Low nicotine cigarette actually providing false security for smokers.
