Why do you smoke after drink ?

You all must have heard sometime that person drinking alcohol urges to have a smoke and maybe you may have also felt the same if you drink.

What could be the reason? 

An Indian doctor has found a solution for this query and he has told that alcohol makes you feel sleepy and nicotine in cigarettes acts as a stimulant to ward off sleep.

Another fact is that if someone smokes than he or she is much likely to consume more alcohol and vice-versa in order to feed off one another.

Nicotine is responsible for reducing the sleeping tendency which is infused by alcohol by stimulating the response in a brain area called as basal forebrain.

Anyways there must some other factors also as the smokers always keep on coming for short brakes to smoke.


Few More reasons why people have craving for a smoke after drinking

Nicotine dampens brain’s response to alcohol.

Alcohol increases the response of the body’s level of stress hormones which reduces the pleasure smokers get from alcohol.