COMPARISON OF LEVELS OF DOPAMINE FROM FOOD SEX AND DRUGS



Our behavior is driven by neurochemicals, and dopamine has been proven to greatly influence our choices, let’s now take a look at how different substances and activities influence our dopamine levels.

As you can see nicotine has stronger effects on our brain than food! So only based on this it could be inferred that quitting nicotine is more difficult than overcoming your food addiction!

Overall drugs have a stronger effect on our dopamine levels than natural behaviors, in some cases up to 20X! That is the reason why after trying these substances everything else can become uninteresting in comparison and some people reward system and behavior become damaged for life.