What fuels my addiction?

Question

What is it in my body that's telling my mind that I need to get some of what I'm craving. Even I know its bad for me but my body wont listen

Answer 1

It's not your body. It's how the receptors and chemicals in your mind transmit to each other and communicate with each other. And it's also will power.

Answer 2

Your body craves an addictive substance because your brain is telling your body it needs the substance.  The receptors in your brain have come to expect it.

Take cocaine for example.  Cocaine affects the receptors in your brain that are specific for dopamine.  Those receptors become stimulated.  Over time, those receptors become accustomed to that level of stimulation.

This creates a vicious cycle of reward & pleasure, then the hard crash of withdrawal.  During the withdrawal period, those receptors in the brain the are stimulated are telling you to get/buy more cocaine.

Answer 3

depending on what it is that your addicted to, it can cause the need for it in different ways

if you are addicted to cigarettes, then the nicotine runs through your blood and causes it to change the way that it functions, and it changes it slowly so that when you start to quit, your body doesn't know how to function right

if it is a different drug, then most likely it is blocking your synapse receptors in your brain, so that when the drug is absent, then you cannot feel happiness or any positive feeling the same way as before

the key to breaking any addiction is to take it slowly

if it is cigarettes, then smoke one less every other day, or if it is taking a certain drug, then use a little bit less every other day so that your body doesn't go through the major withdraws