What are two types of tobacco addictions?

Answer 1

Being an ex smoker myself, being addicted to the nicotine is one and then a person gets addicted to what I call (busy hand and finger syndrome) which is the actual performing of; taking the cigarette out of the pack, lighting it, arm up and down movement, taping off the ashes, putting cigarette out. All these things become a terrible habit.

Addition: These characterize the two types of addiction: physical and psychological.

Nicotine is an addictive substance. Your central nervous system has receptors that respond to it and when it is withdrawn for a certain period of time, they tell the brain to get more. "Cravings"... this is part of the addiction, but perhaps the hardest to break is the psychological. All of these descriptions of what the user did while smoking. The habit. It becomes ritualistic and ingrained in our psyche that it becomes part of a routine that is even harder to break, many times, than the physical addiction. Our brain creates neural networking where the brain cells connect with each other and relate certain activities for instance, smoking a cigarette while drinking coffee... MANY people get so used to this particular combination that drinking coffee may actually trigger cravings for a cigarette-- or after eating-- while stressed. There are many activities that our brains our hard-wired (our neurons and neural nets) actually come to expect these things. In this case, it both the stimulation of nicotonic acetylcholine receptors in the central nervous system by the nicotine itself (physical addiction) AND the habits and rituals that accompany, trigger, or precede smoking or consuming nicotine which are built over time by connections in our brain itself (psychological).

Answer 2

There is the physical and the psychological addictions related to tobacco use.