Many think that smoking calms the nerves, and relieves one from anxiety and depression. But researchers found that it is not so, and in fact the opposite is the reality.
A team from the Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute found that smoking increases the risk of some anxiety disorders in teens and young adults.
In the research they found that the risk of developing agoraphobia, generalised anxiety disorder, is high in teenagers who smoke at least a pack of cigarettes a day. Also, smoking is found to cause panic disorder in young adulthood.
Adolescents who smoke 20 cigarettes or more in a day are nearly 7 times more at the risk of developing agoraphobia during early adulthood. They were also 5.5 times more at the risk of generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) and 16 times to suffer from panic disorder.
In fact, many smokers spend most of their day suffering from the misery of temporary withdrawal from nicotine when they wait for their next cigarette. When smoking exerts such profound influences on human brain, I think there is no surprise if smoking has serious long term and negative consequences.
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