Preventing Headaches By Avoiding Stimulants

Quit smoking if you can. Smoking can affect your head in a very bad way. In fact, smoking affects the functioning of every part of your body. When you smoke you are actually submitting your body and the various mechanisms that go on inside you to the power of a very strong alkaloid: nicotine. So trying to quit is vital. It will help you live a better life and can contribute much towards eliminating your headache.

In fact, if your headache goes away when you start smoking it means that your body has already become dependent on nicotine. In that case your headache may be a withdrawal symptom.

There are many things that are identified with substance abuse. Alcohol is one of them, narcotic drugs are another and tobacco is in no way to be left behind. The problem, or let us say that the similarity among all these substances, is that once one gets used to them, breaking away is not easy.

Contrary to popular belief, it is not the fear of deprivation of the pleasantly high feeling that drives the person to use the substance again and again so that it is used, misused and eventually abused. The person returns for his or her daily shot because of certain altered conditions in the body. These substances are indeed very potent and they affect certain specific spots or centers of the brain.

The brain quickly gets used to these alterations and then, before we know it, these centers of the brain cannot do without the daily doze of the substance. The brain did not ask for the substances in the first place but we gave them to it. When we experience that pleasantly high feeling we do not bother about the changes that are taking place within.

It is common knowledge that the entire processes carried out in the brain are maintained by a delicate balance of the various chemical salts there. Once we start using substances like tobacco, narcotics and alcohol, the balance of these chemical salts becomes altered.

The body, as mentioned, earlier is a self-adjusting machine and so this new chemical balance is established and it takes no time for the brain cells to get adjusted to the new balance.

Then when the brain cells do not get what is required to maintain the new balance (read that as the daily puffs) things go haywire. The old balance was disturbed and altered and a new balance was set up.

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