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You'll also find people asking why they crave sugar after they quit smoking cigarettes, cold turkey.
The answer to both: nicotine addiction (like all uppers/stimulants) messes with your blood glucose in the long term. Nicotine raises blood sugar levels.
To further answer your question, nicotine addiction messes with your dopamine/norepinephrine/adrenaline in the long term. Nicotine raises these neurotransmitters, causing increased "energy" and focus.
Digestion takes a lot of energy. When a smoker eats, they begin to feel a heavy blood sugar drop, they become tired, they begin to lose focus, they become irritable and moody. Hence, they "need" a cigarette in order to normalize.
I'll go ahead and cover alcohol and sex.
Cigarettes comprise more than Nicotine and it's psychological/physical effects.
Tobacco also brings oxytocin and MAOI's to the table. Alcohol, like benzodiazepine, works on GABBA, causing neural transmitters to slow down. As an addicted smoker has a body accustomed to a drug that raises many neurotransmitter levels, alcohol has an amplified effect. Thus, smokers smoke a lot when they drink.
Sex (and exercise) releases a slurry of multiple (and seemingly contradicting) hormones and neurotransmitters. Depending on the specific sexual event, time of day, and the genetic makeup of the individual; these neurotransmitters/hormones can vary in levels. To pinpoint why someone smokes after sex would be difficult. They could be "chasing the dragon" (dopamine), needing energy and focus, or require relaxation (maoi/oxytocin). Obviously, it is certainly relative to the body's chemicals.
Hope this better answers your question than "I don't know, I think it's because it makes the caloric content of the food magically disappear".
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Why do you crave cigarettes?
Because of the addictive additives inside your smoke.
Why do smokers crave cigarrettes?
Due to the nicotine contained in the cigarettes.
Why do humans crave cigarettes?
Humans crave cigarettes when they try them because of a product called nicotine, which is addictive. Plus, to keep business, cigarette companies add all sorts of addictive chemicals to make you not quit smoking.
How many cigarettes do you have to eat for it to be fatal?
You don't eat cigarettes.
Why do you crave milk when you eat oreo's?
because you just do
Why do you crave starchy foods?
starchy foods are bad carbs, which produce sugars, sugar in turn produces the crave , and the more starches, are plain white sugar you eat the more your body will crave
Why must pregnant women eat what they crave?
It is not a must. But then she will eat the same without your permission and knowledge.
Why do I crave strawberries?
pyhydroxinosis- a disease that causes you to crave certain fruits. it's very common.
What should you eat whilst pregnant?
Vitamins plus what eva u crave
What is it call when you eat ice all the time?
Pagophagia: to chew or crave ice.
If you are a vegetarian do you want to eat chicken?
You might crave chicken but if you eat it you are not a vegetarian anymore. Try vegetarian "fake chicken".
Is horse semen safe to eat?
It is not safe.
