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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (98823)	3/20/2005 2:38:01 AM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<they are probably in the group of smokers who use cigarettes to self-medicate for anxiety disorders>> Certain genetic factors can make people weaker and more prone to smoking but its not anxiety disorders that lead them to smoke. Peer pressure and other things can cause that. It's the addiction that creates the anxiety disorders and smoking then becomes both the comping mechanism and the mood stabilizer. It's not a mood stabilizer for someone with emotional distress. It's a mood stabilizer for those who have already become addicted. The cycle of addiction is a bitch and in trying to break that cycle the addicted mind will screw with you to the point of physical illness until you either break down or drain the toxin from your body.