This social dependency becomes noticeable only in efforts to quit smoking. Calm down and pause a while A smoker has accustomed to attaching cigarettes in situations, in which he is tense and one should calm down ahead of a difficult job and get concentrated. Tobacco gets often many positive elements in imagination. Many smokers tend to use smoking in controlling their moods. When taking a pause to have a cigarette one has learned to stop for a thoughtful moment.
Tobacco is something that gives a right to have a pause.
For some tobacco is a means to cheer up. Psychological dependency gets explicit, when a person can be without cigarettes for months but in a distressing situation there is an unsurpassable need to light up a cigarette. Dopamine for pleasure Nicotine activates the corresponding receptors in the brain and increases the level of dopamine secretion. Nicotine causes strong physical dependency. Smokers' organism becomes used to the substance.