May 2016 State Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates. New Mexico. These occupational employment and wage estimates are calculated with data collected from employers in all industry sectors in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas in New Mexico.
When you smoke, a spike of nicotine gets to your brain and reacts with a special area of the brain, where there are receptors that respond to nicotine. When these receptors are stimulated by nicotine from your smoking, they release chemicals that give you a feeling of pleasure. When you first started smoking, your brain only had a few receptors that reacted to nicotine. However, as you continued to smoke over the years, your brain has developed more and more receptors. Millions of them. Now, these receptors are used to that spike of nicotine.
Nicotine imitates the action of a natural neurotransmitter called acetylcholine and binds to a particular type of acetylcholine receptor, known as the nicotinic receptor. Whether it is acetylcholine or nicotine that binds to this receptor, it responds in the same way: it changes its conformation, which causes its associated ion channel to open for a few milliseconds.