Smoking has far reaching effects on your life and the lives of others around and being able to quit this habit can allow you to live a more active life free of the desire to smoke. Smoking cigarettes are an addictive habit that is caused from a chemical that is in the tobacco called nicotine.
Addiction is the word that is used to describe a person that habitually smokes cigarettes but the word addiction was not always used to describe such a negative thing. Addiction originally was used to describe an individual that was committed to another to learn a trade such as on the job training is used today. In the 1800’s the word addicted became more related to negative actions such as alcohol, cigarettes or drugs. Cigarettes are addicting
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A year after you quit, your chances of having a heart attack are cut in half. In five years, your risk of having a stroke is the same as that of a nonsmoker. In 10 years, your chance of lung cancer is half of what it would be if you had continued smoking. In 15 years, your risk of heart disease will be the same as that of a nonsmoker.(45)
Quitting this drug like any other has withdrawal symptoms that are related to quitting this type of drug that can be overcome with assistance but failure is still a concern. Nicotine replacement drugs are available as an over the counter medication for purchase at any local convenience store. Reducing the amount of cigarettes you smoke may be able to lessen the chemical dependency that you have and then quitting all together could reduce the risk of withdrawal symptoms. These types of medications have the ability to assist with the chemical dependency of cigarettes but not the psychological desire to smoke. To combat this psychological dependency some people turn to therapy to determine the triggers that make them want to smoke and determine alternate methods to deal with those triggers. Aversion therapy is another method that has been used in the past in which one will combat the pleasure that they receive from smoking with a negative one. This method is accomplished by simply attaching a rubber band to ones wrist that they use to
Smoking is a habit and can become classically conditioned to think of a cigarette every time an individual learn to associate the pleasures of smoking with all of their daily activities they usually perform while smoking. For example, if they smoke while drinking a cup of coffee, the sight and smell of a cup of coffee could trigger the craving for a cigarette or if they smoke while driving to work, getting into the car can result in a craving for a cigarette. The smoker needs to identify and plan for all of the places and behaviors they associate with smoking before they are able to quit. Once they have identified all the things that trigger them in the craving. They will have to change their daily routine, so they can eliminate the connection between the triggers and 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.
Smoking cigarettes is known to be addictive and habit forming. Smoking cigarettes regularly is what develops it into addiction. It can be seen as introducing people to a life of addiction. Smoking cigarettes is not only addictive because of the nicotine found in tobacco but also because of the habit. Putting a cigarette in your
Teenagers need to stop smoking if they want a healthier life. Smoking damages one’s body system, which turns into cancer. Society need to start making good decisions instead of wrong ones, but also need to make sure to educate the younger society about the consequences of smoking cigarettes. As related by the internet webpage, “because teenage’s body is still growing, teens and youth are vulnerable to its deadly effects.’’( internet webpage). Teens are vulnerable to any toxic habit and because they are still in a development stage, they can be in serious danger. Smoking causes deadly consequences as it says in the above sentences. Smoking in teenagers makes an individual have breathing problems because the lung is not healthier enough or not working the way it is supposed to work. Smoking causes adolescents lung function problems. Also if a teenager has asthma, tobacco smoke can trigger an attack or make an attack worst. Teenagers need
In one cigarette alone, there are more than 600 ingredients. When the cigarette is burned, more than 7,000 chemicals are released. Sixty-nine of those chemicals are cancerous and many are poisonous. Some of these ingredients include arsenic, which is rat poisoning, and formaldehyde, which is embalming fluid (“What's In a Cigarette?”). Even though it is known smoking terribly effects the human body, many people still smoke.
Smoking is a silent killer. Smoking is the process of breathing in smoke from burning cigarette, tobacco and weed, which goes into the lungs, bloodstream, and brain thereby causing serious damages to our health. Smoking does many dangerous things to the body of both smokers and nonsmokers that people are not aware of due to lack of education and social influence. Nonsmokers can also be affected just by inhaling the air filled with smoke from smokers. So even if I don’t smoke but have people around me that smoke can impact my health negatively. Generations unborn are also at a very high risk of this deadly habit because it damages the DNA in both sperm and egg. Smoking is a dangerous habit that needs to be eradicated completely because of its devastating effect on infertility and pregnancy complications, heart disease and lung cancer.
The most unfortunate thing of our society is people are being judged by their drinking and smoking habit which should only be a choice of that person who is using it for whatever reason. Now if a woman smokes up, first of all her character would suddenly be misinterpreted, then if she drinks alcohol, it is almost catastrophic for her health according to the mentality and lack of knowledge of people in our society; not only that, in India smoking and drinking publically for women is a bizarre, it seems as she has made some crime. Of course smoking causes many diseases it’s a different issue but it can’t define woman’s personality or her nature.
Every year, 136,000 American die of cancer and about ninety percent of lung cancer are caused
Keep yourself busy with exercise. Scientific studies prove that exercise helps you cut your cravings for nicotine. Even a five-minute brisk walking or stretching will do the trick and help help your brain produce
The most common problems that are destroying the health of young generations and killing thousands and thousands adults every day is smoking cigarette. The issue of smoking has become one of the most significant and controversial debates in Australia, due its health problem and the effect of the environment atmosphere. Researches and medics worldwide were studying the main causes that makes people smoke and why? (Backes, 2016). According to Dr Jewell‘s article, reveals that there are lots of factors that influencing young children to smoke. Factors such as social influence or peer pressure, curiosity, advertising, media as well as family (Jewell, 2015). This literature review will describe, summarise, evaluate and clarify the negative
Researchers today, have studied that since the 1960’s, a smoker’s chance of developing lung cancer or COPD compared to a nonsmoker have increased (National Cancer Institute, 2014, p. 1). According to the American Cancer Society (2015), 30% of fatalities in the United States are from cancer, including 80% from lung cancer (p. 1).
Smoking cigarettes could affect your life drastically but, imagine what could happen to the other people around you. Harmful smoke can cause second hand smoking to the ones around you whether its loved ones, friends or just a regular person. Although smoking could be hard for others to quit, it’s a desperate call to stop because cigarettes cause underlying diseases. It has been scientifically proven that the highest number causes of a person's death is due to smoking if they do consume it. For years the health departments have tried to help others quit smoking but that seems to be a main concern.
Since the start of my education and ability to understand, I’ve always been taught to accept others despite their differences. I’ve learned to not judge people based on appearances but their actions. For some time I never found myself having issues with those who smoked. However, once I started getting older I became more aware of all the little nuisances that came with smoking. The smoke, behaviors and health concerns began to stand out to the point where it seemed like there were flashing signs above those who smoked. Once I learned in-depth about all the hazards, I became much more aware of how much I did not like cigarettes and how I began to dislike their users. Now my everyday life is, ironically, surrounded by these users. Every day
Smoking is known as one of the worst habits to break. Most people who start never quit just because it is just too hard to quit or they are just so addicted to the chemicals that the tobacco companies use in their cigarettes and don't see the real problems that smoking can cause. If smoking did the same thing as it did on the outside as it does on the inside, how many people do you think will smoke then?
Smoking causes a lot of different problems ones of these problems are the many diseases you may contract. The chemicals in tobacco can harm blood cells that can damage