It's very easy to say, "Why don't smokers just quit already?" As any who has tried to quit smoking knows, it's much easier to talk about quitting than to do it. As hard as it is to quit smoking, now it turns out that the process of becoming addicted is even easier than previously thought, as easy as just one cigarette.A report published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine shows that 10 percent of youth who become addicted to smoking are addicted within two days of first inhaling from a cigarette, and 25 percent are addicted within a month.
From Joseph R. DiFranza, MD, professor of family medicine & community health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and leader of the UMMS research team, "In humans, nicotine-induced alterations in the brain can trigger addiction with the first cigarette. Nobody expects to get addicted from smoking one cigarette."
