Cigarette-Personal Narrative

     In the world today, Nicotine is one of the most frequently used addictive drugs. The impact it has on society is like no other. It is one of more than 4,000 chemicals found in the smoke of tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars, and pipes. This addictive drug is the primary component in tobacco that acts on the brain.

This essay will consider how each of the 5 psychological perspectives explain smoking. I will cover the psychodynamic, the behaviouristic, the biological, the cognitive and the humanistic approach.

Electronic cigarettes, also known as "e-cigarettes", could potentially be heading for regulation after renewed debate about its use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Smoking traditional cigarettes causes various adverse health effects; however, the causes of smoking electronic cigarettes remains unknown. The proposal presents a study that will measure fundamental frequency. Approximately eighty University of Central Florida students who are non-smokers, ages 18 to 24 years old, will smoke an electronic cigarette. Each student will be measured on fundamental frequency before and after an electronic cigarette smoking session. It is predicated that a non-smokers’ use of an electronic cigarette will immediately produce a reduction in fundamental frequency, which may serve as a precursor to signal future medical pathologies similar to that of traditional cigarettes. The comparisons of pre- versus post-smoke sessions for vocal fold vibration will be analyzed based on the fundamental frequency scoring. The demographic variable, gender, may also impact fundamental frequency results, and will too be analyzed. The proposal provides an overview of the literature and specific methodological strategies for implementing the research. Expected outcomes and future research will be discussed.

I pulled the Marlboro cigarette from my red painted lips, the evidence left on the cigarette, long enough to scoff at the overly used line. He obviously didn't take the hint as he sat on the bench beside me. I glanced sideways at him, allowing myself to give him a quick assessment. I immediately made note of our physical differences. My skin was pale as his was tan. My hair was dark brown as his, light blonde. I couldn't tell the color of his eyes, being that he had dark shades on. He was attractive, I thought. But I wasn't going to tell him that.

Newport Cigarettes In the Newport cigarette advertisement, "Alive with pleasure!" is an attractive phrase to lure the public to purchase the product which contains tobacco, and it is bad for the publics heath. The image consists of a woman and a man playing in the water at the beach. The man has his arms locked securely around the woman's waist as if he is lifting her up. She is holding a gigantic multicolored beach ball, and appears to be laughing.

Today was not a good day. I broke the challenge. This semester I need to complete nineteen credits, so I am busy and stress. It was not a good idea to reduce the level of nicotine during this time because I know that If I want to give up to smoke, I need to look for a period without pressure. In addition to that I realized that If one day I want to quit to smoke I cannot only reduce the number of cigarettes, I will not smoke at all. I will try to do it again, when I finish this

A few months ago, I moved out of my parents' house. October 12th, Two of my closest friends and I moved into a house together. We had a landlord that we gave our down payment/rent to. We had the bills we needed to pay each month. We also had to worry about what was for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. We were learning what it was like to become adults. There were so many fights about money issues throughout the first two months. Which, in turn, made me stressed out and worried about money. As a result, I picked up smoking cigarettes thinking it would help. Which was the worst thing I think I've ever done.

I learned from DARE class smoking is bad for your heart: I know that because my grandma smoked so bad that she died for 3 minutes. She came back again luckily. It is also is bad because my grandma after she was ok her face made her look really old. But she was only 40 years old. My grandma she had heart disease, and it was sad because I thought she wouldn’t come back again. The good thing is she is ok now, and still alive, and doing well.

S.B., age 67, has not come in for a physical in several years. History includes the use of one to two packs of cigarettes a day for 35 years. Inspection reveals increased anteroposterior diameter (barrel shaped). His skin color is pale gray. He appears anxious, and he is sitting in a tripod position. His nails beds are bluish in color; his oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry is 88%. His respirations are 26; chest expansion is mildly retracting. BP is 154/76, pulse is 100 bpm, and temperature is 37 C. Posterior chest auscultation reveals wheezes with a prolonged expiratory respiratory phase.

It is 3:48 in the morning when two ships part in the smooth waters of sobriety; she north, and he south. He takes the glass and brings it to his scornful mouth, the rivers of whiskey streaming down his throat much smoother than his self-condemnation.

I am currently aiming to stop avoiding opportunities outside of my comfort zone. Recently, I have noticed that I only pursue an opportunity if it falls within my comfort zone. A prime example of this is the Tobacco Science Research Conference. While I was invited to the conference by a chemist from RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, I am unsure if I will be attending since I do not have a background in science.

About a week or two ago, we touched on the idea that why alcohol and nicotine are so widely used and accepted today, even though they are more harmful pharmacologically than many drugs that not considered acceptable. Now, we even see Jonathan Ott brought up this issue again, where both tobacco and alcohol contributed more than deaths per years than all these illicit drug used combined. As he puts it, there are nearly 100 times as many deaths as a result from nicotine, ‘’even though there are only three times as many nicotine users in the United States as users of all illicit drugs combined’’ ( Ott, Proemium, line ). One could say that both alcohol and tobacco are indeed more toxic and dangerous than other illicit drugs that our government is prohibiting.

The effects of cigarette smoking can be horrifying. Smoking is dangerous not only to those who smoke, but to non-smokers and unborn children as well. Cigarette smoking is also physically and socially harming.

The side of smoking that is rarely published will be explored in this paper. The side that only a smoker knows, not the side the governments and health agencies provide the news media with. This information is valuable because it is not very well exposed to the world. This essay will answer the question, “Why do you smoke cigarettes?”.