Cigarettes: The Effects Of Tobacco On Mental Health

It is the most common addiction throughout the world with 1.1 trillion people smoking currently, consisting about a third of the population over 15 years old. While nicotine is the addictive substance in the tobacco that causes addiction, tobacco will increase health risks of heart attack and vascular diseases. Nicotine dependency is a complex brain disease, and we need to start thinking of it as such. New ways of ingesting this substance have been created, that try to lure and appeal to demographic, particularly younger, to consume nicotine. Regardless of how many years someone has smoked, stopping at any point will valuable and improve your quality of life. Changing the public’s view on addiction is a subject of importance, so many of others can view this as a brain disease more than a personal decision. To fight this addiction, you have to rewire your behaviors in your brain and have a drive to overcome this horrific addiction. The brain can luckily keep changing and be trained to stop cravings with a multitude of different strategies. Anyone can be affected by addiction, we need start treating addicts with evidence-based practices rather than jailing them. Through more education and laws enforced, we can only hope that the number of tobacco users can decrease more and everyone can learn to live a healthier, full life without addiction and the painful diseases that derive from

Tobacco and the Brain Recent surveys show that 25 % of all American adults smoke despite the fact that tobacco is the No.1 cause of death (430,000 annual) and disease in this country (1). The life of a 30-year older that smokes 15 cigarettes a day is shortened by an average of more than five years (2). Why do people smoke despite the fact that it shortens their life? Why has this practice of smoking tobacco been around for 1000 years? There must be something that the human body or mind gains in spite of the threat of an early death. I realize this craving for nicotine on a personal level because I smoke. Smoker's self-reported motives for smoking include stress reduction and improved circulation (3). That sounds like my reasons. Plus

The addiction to tobacco, nicotine, and smoking is something the humans have embraced and battled since the early 1800’s. With more and more people falling into the habit and becoming addicted, many detrimental health effects on the body caused people to question what was going on and what was causing these negative reactions in the body. Soon enough, the healthy and “cool” cigarettes that everyone was smoking became the face of lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, birth defects, and many other deadly bodily reactions. In the early 2000’s electronic cigarettes (ECs) were developed by a Chinese pharmacist that hoped to allow smokers to maintain their nicotine addiction, but limit or end the harmful and detrimental effects of tobacco on the body, due to his father’s death of tobacco-attributable lung cancer.1 A typical EC consists of a rechargeable lithium battery, a heating tool called an atomizer, which vaporizes a humectant (typically propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, and/or polyethylene glycol 400). The humectant contains liquid nicotine. When the smoker inhales, the heating tool is activated by an airflow sensor, and the nicotine is vaporized.1 2

The reason people become addicted to tobacco is nicotine, a chemical that affects both your mood and your physical brain. It gives your brain temporary pleasure, and makes you want to use more tobacco, which leads to dependence on the substance. It is the nicotine that gets a person addicted to tobacco, but the other substances in tobacco that have physical effects on the user. The continued use of tobacco can cause many deadly health conditions, and it is responsible for about 1 out of 6 deaths in the United States. There are currently more than 16 million Americans living with a smoking caused disease. “On average smokers die 10 years earlier than non-smokers.” (cdc.gov) Tobacco addiction is also responsible for at least 480,00 deaths per year in the United

WK 3 Milestone #3 The Annotated Bibliography Cohen, E. L., Shumate, M. D., & Gold, A. (2007). Original: anti-smoking media campaign messages: theory and practice. Health Communication, 22(2), 91-102.

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Psychological perspectives of smoking 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.

“The Real Cost” According to “The Action of Smoking and Health,” every six seconds someone loses their life as a result of a tobacco related disease. It’s hard to realize how damaging cigarette smoking’s effect can be until you experience it first hand. It is almost certain that every one

Tobacco smoke is tremendously hurtful to your wellbeing. There's no protected approach to smoke. Supplanting your cigarette with a cigar, pipe, or hookah won't offer you some assistance with avoiding the wellbeing dangers connected with tobacco items. Cigarettes contain around 600 ingedients. When they smolder, they produce more than 7,000 chemicals, as indicated by the American Lung Association. A number of those chemicals are harmful and no less than 69 of them can bring about cancer. Some portion of the same ingredients are found in cigars and in tobacco utilized as a part of pipes and hookahs. As indicated by the National Cancer Institute, cigars have a larger amount of cancer-causing agents, poisons, and tar than cigarettes.

Although it remains a large portion of the U.S’ economy, tobacco smoking can lead to a variety of diseases and disorders that affect the user. The effects of smoking tobacco not only affect the user but surrounding people as well: permanently destroying their lungs and children, increasing the chances of diseases and of cancer.

One major advantage of tobacco cessation counseling can be described as a “…good evidences that quitting smoking at any age results in significant health gains” (Census and Statistics Department, 2000; Skaar et al, 1997; Abdullah & Husten, 2006, p. 461). As Lightwood and Glantz (1997), Lightwood (1999), and Shields (2002)

A perfectly fine home, food on the table, and clothes on his back, what more could he ever ask for? But a part of him feels empty inside, and he needs something to take the edge off of him. He thinks he needs to resolve to drugs because what other choice does he have? And that’s when it all starts; he goes out with his friends to do drugs, and then he feels better. Next month, repeat the process. Next week, repeat the process. Tomorrow, repeat the process. Suddenly, the desire for drugs is no longer what it once was. Rather, it’s a need, and these are the initial steps to becoming an addict.

Introduction This report will focus how smoking tobacco can result in individuals with poor health and wellbeing outcomes. The report with the first overview of the Victorian public health and wellbeing plan 2015-2019, outlining how the determinants of health can influence at-risk population groups. Afterwards, one of the priority area, tobacco-free living, will be selected along with the two at-risk groups, those who are lower on the social gradient ladder and Aboriginal Victorians, then one at-risk group will be analysed with three different determinants describing why they are experiencing poorer health and wellbeing outcomes.

A Single Case Study Using Cognitive-Behavioral Techniques to Quit Smoking Cigarette smoking is a leading public health issue worldwide and has a negative impact on the health of millions of individuals each year (American Cancer Society, 2007). The health related effects from cigarette smoking include cancer, hypertension, stroke, and cardiovascular disease. Moreover, cigarette smoking is an addictive behavior (American Psychological Association [APA], 2000). Millions of people attempt to quit smoking and fail (American Cancer Society, 2007).