Is betel nut addictive?

Betel nut has a unique taste. Many people like to eat it, and many men quit smoking by eating betel nut. There are many ingredients in betel nut. Strictly speaking, long-term consumption of betel nut is addictive. Betel nut has a certain addictiveness and may cause hallucinations. Once you become addicted, you must stop using betel nut.

1. Betel nut has a certain degree of addictive and hallucinogenic effect, but it is not as strong as narcotic analgesics (morphine, pethidine, etc.). Betel nut addiction: Some people consume large amounts of betel nuts, more than a dozen or more a day. The levels of arecaline and arecaline in their bodies are very high, making them prone to addiction. Situations where eating betel nut is not addictive: Betel nut itself is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. It will not be addictive when used as a combination of other medicines, or if you only eat betel nut occasionally, you will not be addicted.

2. Betel nut contains addictive ingredients. Betel nut itself contains ingredients that can cause stimulating effects on human nerves, such as excitement and paralysis. Long-term consumption of betel nut will cause the nerves to become dependent on this stimulation and lead to addiction.

Added addictive ingredient. The hallucinogenic and anesthetic ingredients contained in betel nut itself are very low, but many betel nut processors will add some other ingredients when processing betel nut. The common betel nut on the market is added with five ingredients: asarum, ephedra, mint, licorice and quicklime. Betel nut soaked in these five ingredients is more stimulating to human nerves and is more addictive. The main reason is that the ephedrine contained in ephedra has a strong addictive effect.

3. Quitting betel nut is the same as quitting smoking and drinking. It requires strong willpower and determination to quit. This is the key to quitting addiction. To quit betel nut, you can choose to use both the substitution method and the gradual reduction method. When the betel nut craving comes, you can eat a piece of chewing gum as a substitute. You can also eat only one-third of a betel nut, one in three times, to slowly reduce the addiction and eventually quit. Another crucial condition for quitting betel nut is that the people around you must quit together, otherwise it will be difficult for one person to persist.