The Psychological Effects Of Smoking

Secondhand smoke is a volatile air pollutant that poses health risks for anyone nearby. It places children at risk for developing issues like asthma, ear and respiratory infections, and even cancer, while increasing the more obvious risks of cancer, heart disease, and stroke for the smoker.

No one is perfect. Everyone grows up in their own unique way. Adults are supposed to demonstrate to children how to be polite and live in the real world. With a doubt, a child’s parents have the most substantial impact on their future. Most parents love their kids and raise them with positivity so they can grow up to be better than them.

Smoking, a word everyone is familiar with.From the time tobacco and cigarette were created to today, the total number of smokers are still  booming。On this planet, millions of smokers inhale smoke right now. Smoking could bring good feelings to the smokers but it’s also could bring bad things to them.For smokers, they heard smoking is bad for health, it causes heart attack and lung diseases and many other things, they knew the dangers of smoking but many of them can’t quit it or not willing to quit it. People usually become less addictive to something they already knew it’s dangerous, but for smoking, it’s not the case. So, I think smoking might give smokers something special, and many positive feelings or results. A man also told me he needs the help of cigarette to become energetic and there are many social values of tobacco.   For example,  in China,  sometimes smoking is good for social connection, it’s could help a stranger to get closer to each other when people met for the first time, they often ask each other do you smoke，if the answer is yes, people will give them cigarettes to smoke. It shows kindness and helps to develop a friendship.The fact that people use cigaret to socialize with people interested me, so  I interviewed an ex-smoker for a better understanding of smoking.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, secondhand smoke is known to trigger lung cancer, heart disease, and even stroke in adults and asthma and ear and lung infections in children. But you live alone so most of that does not pertain to you, right? Think about your cat, whose lungs are almost identical to those of humans. Smoking affects her, too. Petfinder.com states that cats living in smoking homes are three times more likely to develop cancers of the mouth and lymph nodes. I am sure that deep down, you know that your cigarette usage affects others, so why do you

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 Biological and Psychological Impact of Smoking Cigarettes I have been set the assignment to construct a detailed and comprehensive scientific essay. The essay must be related to an area of the AS course(AQA). I have decided to do my essay on the "biological and psychological impacts of smoking cigarettes".

Did you know "one person dies every six seconds from a tobacco related disease" (Tobacco Statistics & Facts)? Cigarettes have been around for centuries. In the earlier years, people did not realize the life-threatening effects cigarettes done to both our bodies and the environment. Cigarettes pollute the air we breathe and the water sources we drink from. Not only does cigarette smoking affect the person smoking, but others around who inhale the smoke. This can increase risks for diseases, such as cancer and COPD, to the surrounding people. Cigarette smoking should be banned due to the harmful effects they have on our environment, individuals other than the smoker, and our health.

Capitalism thrives in the United States in a manner different than anywhere else in the world. As time passed, it became apparent that spending and creating secured the power it currently possesses. While this country appears to be secular in the way it is regulated, it in actuality owes its economic success to religion. Reality is, the notion of capitalism and the American work ethic is owed to Protestants, despite the secular worldview Americans have held in more recent times. Weber argues that the Protestant work ethic provided a foundation for the success of capitalism in the secular sphere of collective society. The “calling” derived such practicality in terms of economics through its individualistic approach to eternal salvation.

I’m glad you brought up the effects of tobacco. I’m guilty of buying clients cigarettes and encouraging clients to deal with one addiction at a time. The article was very interesting and informative. What I didn’t know was the affects of tobacco on mental health. According to article smoking has negative effects on the physical, mental and financial well-being of people with mental health problems (UKmi, 2007). They also suggested that smoking can antagonise symptoms, and contribute to relapse. The Author also stated that smoking is associated with many drug interaction, Studies have shown that smokers are at higher risk of adverse effects if treated with standard doses (Lucas & Martin, 2013). With all of this information we should

Smoking is addictive both physically and psychologically. The physical addiction can traced to the nicotine in each cigarette. The psychological addiction is, in its own way, just as bad. Smoking becomes second nature, like breathing. It seems hard to quit.

Introduction: An important decision that I have had to make recently is making the decision of what college I will be attending after I finish here at Blue River. Deciding on what college to attend next involves a few things; it involves more than one good option, uncertainty or chance to the outcomes of each option, and contains balance. Picking a college is a hard decision. Choosing the right college for someone has several things to think about when deciding where you will finish school, such as the school being to far or to close to home, does it have the major you want to study, what’s the food like, are you playing a sport while attending school, tuition, along with several other factors. The things that are most important to me when deciding on the next college are tuition, soccer team, good financial aid options and if they have the major of sports management.

Homes, Cars, and work are all places where fumes are exposed. By allowing smokers to smoke in places such as these, we are not only putting them at risk, but also putting others at risk to be affected by smoking related problems. You are probably thinking, What if i dont smoke? (high tone). According to research, a number of diseases can be caught from second hand smoking including different types of cancers throughout the body, emphysema, asthma, and cardiovascular problems (Count with fingers)that you could be affected by. For example, the chance of lung cancer is increased by 16-19% when in contact with second hand smoke. Second hand smoke increases the risk of heart disease by 25-35%. In addition, children exposed to second hand smoke have an increased risk of colds, pneumonia, bronchitis, and asthma, which could lead to many hospitalizations, and in some cases even death. (Sound

Quitting smoking can help you reduce the risk of developing heart disease or even lung cancer by at least 90% if stopped by the age of 40. Not only does tobacco affect those who smoke it, secondhand smoke can cause just as much damage to a person that doesn’t smoke compared to a person that does. In Fact an average of 7,333 deaths were recorded from lung cancer from secondhand smoke and 33,957 from heart disease. It is pretty high considering that the person isn’t inhaling directly from the cigarette imagine what it does when you smoke one. It’s something to think about.

Second-hand smoke increases a person’s chances of getting coronary disease by up to thirty percent. Second-hand smoke also raises the chances of lung and other types of cancer. Each year there are approximately 53,000 deaths from lung cancer and respiratory problems and 25,000 of them are from non smokers. Although that is a long term issue, there are more issues that present themselves instantly. Itchy eyes, runny nose, coughing, hives, and excessive phlegm are just a few.

the past century smoking has been integrated into our society, and it has been lingering