Eli5 how do smoke patches work?
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Nicotine is chemical
Cigarettes give chemical
Chemical is wanted by smoker brain
Smoker doesn’t want to be smoker
Brain doesn’t care- give chemical
Smoker doesn’t want chemical
But cigarettes give chemical
Brain suggests maybe just one then
Brain wants chemical
Stop being difficult give brain chemical
Brain is terrorist until chemical given
Smoker buys patch
Patch has chemical
Brain likes chemical
Smoker wears patch
Brain gets chemical
The burden is now on the smoker to fix their habits now having met the brain demands, the patch however has a metered dose and is a step down tool to slowly convince the brain it in fact, doesn’t want chemical
Eventually through patch, you no longer smoke, making you no smoker no more to eventually off nicotine in general
Nicotine is chemically addictive. This means that your brain physically needs the chemical to feel normal after a while. Caffeine can do the same thing. When quitting smoking, nicotine patches/gum supply the former smoker with that nicotine to ease their brain into lower nicotine intake until they eventually don’t need it anymore.
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