Addiction
Nicotine
Chemistry of Addiction
Nicotine Addiction
Stats and Facts
100
The part of your body that addiction effects.
What is Brain?
100
A chemical that contains nitrogen.
What is Nicotine?
100
The part of your brain addiction takes place in.
What is the Limbic System?
100
The neurotransmitter that nicotine mimics.
What is Acetylcholine?
100
The most common cause of lung cancer in the United States.
What is Smoking?
200
Something that the disease of addiction effects.
What is Behavior?
200
The plant that nicotine is predominately found.
What is Tabacco?
200
The chemical messengers released by the nervous system.
What are neurotransmitters?
200
The ion channel receptors that acetylcholine effects.
What are Nicotinic Receptors?
200
A common type of cancer among smokers.
What is lung cancer?
300
The changes that can last long after you quit your addiction.
What is Physical?
300
An alternative way of producing nicotine.
What is Synthetic?
300
The two kinds of neurotransmitters.
What are excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters?
300
A released chemical that plays a role in memory.
What is Glutamate?
300
The number of cigarettes sold annually.
What is 5 Trillion?
400
A chemical that changes how your brain works.
What is Nicotine?
400
Where the tobacco plant is indigenous to.
What are the Americas?
400
Neurotransmitters that get their target cells fired up with chemical energy.
What are excitatory neurotransmitters?
400
The substance used to break down acetylcholine and nicotine.
What are Enzymes?
400
The number of people globally who smoke regularly.
What is 1.1 billion?
500
Symptoms you get when trying to quit an addiction.
What are withdrawal symptoms?
500
The year cigarettes were first mass produced.
What is 1880?
500
Two common neurotransmitters.
What are dopamine and endorphin?
500
A neurotransmitter that usually calms down neurons.
What is GABA?
500
The average number of years a smoker dies earlier.
What is 10?
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