Cigarette Addiction Most Common Nicotine Withdrawal Symptoms

Cigarette Addiction Most Common Nicotine Withdrawal Symptoms. There's a good chance, if you smoke cigarettes, that you’re addicted to nicotine. Out of the approximate 40 million adults in the United States who regularly light up, about 70 percent of them want to quit smoking, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Problem is, nicotine, a drug found naturally in tobacco, is addictive — in fact, the CDC says that nicotine addiction has similar pharmacologic and behavioral characteristics to cocaine and heroin addictions