For now, let's try to figure out why tobacco has become women's drug of choice. For all the advances in feminist thinking, it is still somehow not OK for women to lose their cool. Instead of yelling, women tend to light up. Nicotine is the main drug in cigarettes that elevates your mood. For this reason, cigarettes are often used as a replacement for dealing with anger and stress.
Clinical depression is twice as common in women as it is in men.
Conveniently, depressed folks tend to smoke more, as the nicotine in cigarettes acts as a minor antidepressant. It's no surprise then that the latest therapy for smoking cessation is the antidepressant medicine burproprion. Light up to lose Women also use cigarettes to control weight. It is widely believed that quitting smoking will result in an inevitable weight gain, the idea being that you'll put food in you mouth to beat the nic fits. Although this is a possibility, it is not the rule.