The active smoker, often put as a reason for their addiction, the feeling of pleasure and well-being, experienced after consuming a cigarette. If this is one of the reasons why you smoke, you’ll want to know that aerobic exercise, also activates brain mechanisms that regulate anxiety, stress and depression, producing the same sensations of calm and wellbeing that the snuff.
The advantage of aerobics is that the pleasure you feel, is the result of making a physical activity, with all the additional benefits from a psychological, biological and social, that might entail.
The aerobic activity produces positive changes in your circulatory system, respiratory, metabolic and muscular.
- Your heart gets stronger, pumping more blood and working less, both at rest and during exercise.
- You become more efficient burn and eliminate fat and carbohydrates, which are not used become fat as a reserve.
- The emphysema is hardening of the alveoli are air sacs that are located at the end of the lungs and is where the exchange of oxygen to enter the bloodstream. It occurs in a large percentage of smokers. One treatment is to do breathing exercises to work specific muscles. Aerobic activity improves the performance of respiratory muscles contribute to greater efficiency in the mechanics of breathing.
But more important is the aerobic capacity of the brain to activate welfare mechanisms .
The aerobic activity produces various changes in internal and external secretion of hormones, which are the substances made by glands.
The most interest is the release of endorphins that are produced by the pituitary gland. A substance is also often called the “hormone of happiness” because it is responsible for the feeling of satisfaction and wellness in the human body, fighting the discomfort and reducing pain sensations.
That feeling, according to medical studies, may last between 3 and 30 minutes, and depends on how long you take to perform an activity to activate the release of endorphins. So if you take more time, for example, perform aerobic exercise, the more amount of time will the feeling of pleasure and wellness.
This note aims to encourage those looking for substitutes for the addiction to snuff, to take the aerobic exercise, like much healthier alternative , the well-being, reducing anxiety and stress that usually use as an excuse to continue smoking.
