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About Smoking Addiction
About smoking addiction
The addiction to smoking, which implies addiction to the substance nicotine has several components. The better one is aware of these components and understand them, the better is the chance for succeeding in stopping the smoking habit. Here is a survey of the components that addiction to smoke consist of.
THE SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPONENT
To some extend the habit of smoking is a product of socialization. Socialization is simply the tendency to repeat patterns of behaviour one sees other persons in the society exhibit. Socialisation is one major way children and young people learn social skills. Children and teenagers learn skills necessary to live and work in the society by a socialisation process. Unfortunately also bad habits and bad ways of thinking are learned the same way.
If one lives or works together with other smoking individuals, one will more or less automatic adopt these individuals’ smoking habits. If one then tries to break out of the social structure, one will feel anxiety for not being accepted any more by the social group one is a part of.
If the other individuals also make moves to threaten or freeze out an individual trying to brake this bad social standard, the difficulty of breaking out of the habit will be even greater. The threatening actions may not even be very serious to frighten a person from braking out of such a socially standardized habit, and may not even be meant as a threat.
THE CULTURAL COMPONENT
Tobacco smoking has its own culture, both a popular culture, a fine or high class culture, a rebellious culture and an artistic culture.
Generally smoking, like the use of alcohol, has been regarded as the privilage of grown up people. Traditionally smoking was something you were allowed when you came of age and beginning to smoke was a sign of being a grown up person responsible for one's own life and for managing oneself. But this general belief made and still makes smoking very temptious for minors, and many minors got and get addicted to smoking and establish a life-long habit of smoking because of this attractiveness. This attractiveness for minors have two components, the feeling of being old enough to take onse' decisions and the feeling of rebelling against the rules of the society and the adult community.
Smoking is also a traditional ritual that persons of all levels of society use when they come together to establish a friendly meeting and conversation, to ease the the beginning of a conversation, to lessen the embarrasment of rising difficult issues. and also to relieve hostility and tension. The ritual lies near to the ritualistic role of tobacco smoking among the indian tribes of America.
The combined effect of nicotine of tranquilizing negative tension and at the same time make some feelings and the cognitive function more allert aids in this use of smoking.
This ritual can be very simple. The person initiating a conversation takes up a cigarette package, offers a cigarette to the other person that may or may not accept, then lits the cigarette accepted by the other person when the other persons holds it in his hand, and then takes up his own cigaratte and lits it. Then both persons takes a couple of sucks from the cigarettes and exhale the smoke.
And then the conversation begins. In a finer setting the two persons withdraw themselves to a special room, corner and balcony, then the cigarette or cigar is offered and they are lit in the bescibed way, and then both persons pose themselves comfortably before taking some pulls of smoke, relaxe a short movement and then the conversation begins. In the simple setting the cigarette is lit by a match or a simple lighter. In the finer setting one will use a lighter of a more noble material and craftwork.
Then in spite of all the negative effects of smoking, this cultural role is a valuable one, and there is a need to find other ways of obtaining the same social effect.
THE NEED FOR SUCKING AND CHEWING
Every person have a need for sucking and chewing. This need is necessary in early infanthood, but it also persists into adult life to some degree. Some persons use cigarettes or other smoking devices and the smoke as a means to satisfy this need. There is a hypothesis that this need is greater by some adults then by others because this need, or some other similar basic need, has not been fully satisfied in early infanthood.
If you want to stop smoking, you can try to satisfy this need by other means, for example by always keeping something in your pocket that you can put in your mouth to chew at when the need for smoke appears.
AUTOMATIC REPEATING
When a person have done something many times and frequently enough, there will be created a pattern of automatic repetition of that particular behaviour. This is especially true if the particular action is done in a distinct recognizable situation.
The pattern of automatic repetition also have the effect of making a person feel safer in the daily life and routines.
Such a pattern of automatic repetition is always a component in the smoking habit. It you want to quit smoking, you should make an investigation to find out in which situations and which environments you usually take a cigarette.
Then try to avoid these situations or environments where you use to smoke, or to deliberately alter these situations.
NICOTINE USED AS A SELF MEDICATION
Nicotine has a tranquilizing effect upon nervous feelings. At the same time it has some anti-depressive effect, at least in the short run, and it makes a person feel more awake. A person suffering from nervousness or from depressive symptoms may feel that the smoking helps him against his mental symptoms.
However, gradually there will be a need for steadily higher doses of nicotine to give these good effects, and if there is a lack of nicotine in the body, the nervous or depressive feelings will be greater than before.
This gratification, but with the need for steadily higher doses to get the good effects is a major incentive for the smoking habit. You should consider if this anti-depressive or tranquilizing effect is a reason for your smoking. Then you should try to find other ways to achieve the same effect. Engaging in some sport or outdoor life will often make you feel less depressed. If the depressive feelings are more serious, some appropriate treatment can be necessary.
THE PLEASURE COMPONENT
There is to some degree a plain and direct pleasure connected with smoking. For some people this pleasure is the reason for beginning the habit in the first place.
This pleasure is in itself a good effect. This good effect is probably in most cases too small compared to the painful effects of smoking, but will gives a temptation for an individual to continue the habit. However, also this pleasure effect will gradually be difficult to obtain without increasing the doses.
If the plain pleasure of smoking is a main reason for your habit, then you should try to find other sources of pleasure instead, for example some good food, some good music or some erotic action.
THE GENETIC COMPONENT
Not all people get equally easy dependent of nicotine. There are factors yet not fully understood that make some people more easily addicted than others. Perhaps some persons have receptors on their nerve cells that more easily get trigged by nicotine than others, or perhaps some people have more receptors with the ability to get trigged by nicotine, and this is inherited in the genetic code.
THE NERVOUS MECHANISMS WORKING BY ADDICTION
The normal brain has signal substances with a tranquilizing effect, and substances with a stimulating effect upon nerve cells. Like most narcotic substances, nicotine act like a signal substance by fitting into receptors on some brain cells.
Nicotine attaches itself to some receptors and thus give the nerve cell having these receptors a signal. The cells getting such a signal from nicotine, will react by secreting another signal substance, dopamine that influence still other cells. Dopamine will tranquilize some brain cells and stimulate others, and the total effect of this is the pleasurable effects of smoking.
However, when nicotine steadily induces dopamine release, the brain will gradually decrease the production of dopamine when nicotine is not present, and the brain will feel a steadily greater need for nicotine to work normally and feel well.
A physiological evil spiral
Over some time smoking will decrease the physiological abilities on many levels. Substances in the smoke will destroy and paralyze the cleansing mechanisms in the thrachea and the bronchi, especially the small hairn on the inner lining that constantly throw deposits and slime upwards so that they can be coughed out. This will make the airpipe narrower and less able to deliver oxygen into the lungs.
The heart will work less well, and there will develop more atherosclerosis clogging the blood vessels. All these changes and damages make an addict generally feel weak.
When the addict is smoking ,the nicotine stimulatse the body on many levels so that he feels stronger and gets a temporarily higher ability to be active. This is because nicotine activates the sympathetic nervous system that prepares the body for action: The airpe relaxes an widens, the heart works harder, the blood vessels that furnisnes blood to body areas use by external action widen, the uptake of oxygen increases.
But for each smoke the genral damages increase and the genral basic weakness will therby also increase, and the temporal relief by smoking will be steadily less effective.
THE HISTORY OF SMOKING
Before Columbus discovered America, tobacco and tobacco smoking was unknown in Europe or Asia. Columbus brought the tobacco plant to Europe, and thus introduced smoking in Europe. In America, the indians have smoked tobacco since long before our time. The Maya indians smoked tobacco, and it is found a stone pipe from 1000 BC on the island Marajó in Brazil that were used to smoking. It is also found a stone pipe from the year 2700 BC at the city of Alberta in Canada, but one is not sure if this is used to smoking. In many indian tribes the smoking had a highly ritualistic role, for example during negotiations about peace.
Some Advices to Ger Rid of the Smoking Habit
It is not easy to rid oneself afrom the habit of smoking or other tobaco abuse. This is because smoking in spite of the harm being greater than the good effects fill some deep needs.
- It gives some degree of pleasure that however can vary
- It calms down unpleasant feeling of nervousness and agitation, both feelings resultant from abstinence of nocotine and such feelings from other causes.
- It enhances allertnessand feeling of strenght.
- It provides some daily ritual and fullfills the need for having something to suck at.
The quit smoking successfully these needs must be provided with some other means whwn one tries to cease the habit.
Some experts recommand to quit the habit abruptly, others will recommand a more gradual process.
In either case one should find other means of providing the above mensioned needs an begin using them just before one do a serious effort to quit.
Improve your diet
An improvement of the diet will make you feel stronger and more allert and will fullfill some of the needs that make you use nicotine. Eant 4 full-valued meals each day consisting of natural food without industrially processed ingredients. Such a meal kostsist of protein sources like: Fish, lean meat, foul, mushrooms and seafood. It consist further of carbohydrate sources like full corn cereals or full corn bread, peas, beans, potatoes and other starch-rich root vegetables. And it consists of some fat source like olive oil, flax,oil, fat fish, nuts or sunflower seeds. Nuts, sunflower seeds and almonds are also proteine-rich. And each meal should have some vegetables or fruit.
Have some regular exercise
Some daily exercise will make you feel stronger and will also fulfill the need for some daily ritual.
Do something to divert the craving for tobaco
Having something to chew at when the craving for nicotine manifests itself can help, for example losenges or chewing gum. Taking a cup of coffee or tea instead of the cigarette can help you get more allert. Letting someone massage you with some aromatherapy remedies can also be a good way of taking the attention away from the craving for nicotine.
Use some natural supplement
Some natural herbal supplements can give you a mild calming effect combined with a stimulating effects in some of the same ways as nicotine. Supplements can also contain vitamins and minerals that make you feel stronger.
Use of other nicotine sources
Use of
nicotine patches or nicotine gum some time can make it easier to throw away the
cigarette. Pure nicotine without the smoke and other components in tobaco is
less dangerous than tobaco itself. But still nicotine is not good for your
health and use of such remedies should only be a temporary remedy.
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