...8 Steps to Quit Smoking In these days, the number of smokers has become lower and lower. This is because of the numerous anti-smoking campaigns, such as terrifying pictures printed on tobacco packs and anti-smoking television advertisings created all over the word that can cause people are smoking with scare and ashamedness. Furthermore, most people want to stop smoking, but they do not know what they should do and what steps to follow. Therefore, if people understand the process of quitting smoking step-by-step, they can prepare themselves to stop smoking easier, do not relapse, and can improve their life. The step of quitting smoking includes 8 steps. The first step is to make the decision to quit. Identifying the reasons for quitting smoking can help people have goals in their mind. When people have an aim in their life, it will drive them to make an effort for achieving their intention. Some people have ever attempted to stop smoking before, but they cannot be successful. They should not let this failure to be an obstacle because people can always start a new chapter in their life. When people just start trying to quit smoking, it means that they have a chance of success. Therefore, this step is the most important of stopping smoking....
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...help book to quit smoking Nicotine is one of the most addictive, harmful and widely available legal drugs in the world. Smoking is a bad habit and is harmful to people who don't smoke. It harms children who are exposed to it passively. Cigarettes are responsible for around 4.9 million deaths each year. Quitting smoking is not impossible. Smoking tobacco is both a physical addiction and a psychological habit. The nicotine from cigarettes provides a temporary and addictive high. Eliminating that regular fix of nicotine will cause your body to experience physical withdrawal symptoms and cravings. Managing unpleasant feelings such as stress, depression, loneliness, fear, and anxiety are some of the most common reasons why people smoke. When you have a bad day, it can seem like cigarettes are your only friend. As much comfort as cigarettes provide, it's important to remember that there are healthier, more effective ways to keep unpleasant feelings in check. These may include exercising, meditating, using sensory relaxation strategies, and practicing simple breathing exercises. At the same time, the act of smoking is ingrained as a daily ritual. It may be an automatic response for you to smoke a cigarette with your morning coffee, while taking a break from work or school or during your commute home at the end of a long day. Perhaps friends, family members, and colleagues smoke and it has become part of the way you relate with them. To successfully quit smoking, you’ll need to address...
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...Introduction Smoking is one of the biggest health problems seen throughout the United States. It is estimated that cigarette smoking contributes to around 450,000 deaths every year and cost the U.S. $193 billion annually in direct medical expenses and lost productivity (Porter 2013). Cigarette smoking is an addictive habit and for the majority of smokers is very hard to quit, especially by themselves. It is difficult if one is a non-smoker to grasp and understand the dynamics of the addiction and successful quitting usually requires a significant amount of assistance and support. Nurse practitioners are there to provide professional assistance by helping patients take the appropriate steps and measures to ensure their success in smoking cessation. Difficulty of Smoking Cessation In general, most people who smoke know smoking is bad for their health and can contribute to many other health problems and even death, so why can’t they just quit? If it were that easy there would be significantly less smokers in this country. The problem is not the desire to quit but rather the actual act of stoping smoking for good. The fact of reality is there are plenty of smokers out there who want to quit but just can’t due to the complexity and addictive nature of the habit. The three main components of tobacco smoke include; tar, carbon monoxide and nicotine (McEwen 2014). Most of the health issues that arise from smoking cigarettes are directly linked to tar and carbon monoxide components...
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...Smoking Disease in Native Americans Smoking Disease in Native Americans Smoking cigarettes is a very dangerous habit and according to the American Psychological Association (APA) is highly addictive. Because smoking is such an addictive habit most people consider it a disease on its own. Although this is a universal known fact, people still choose to smoke. “Nicotine is the ingredient in cigarettes that causes addiction. Smokers not only become physically addicted to nicotine; they also link smoking with many social activities, making smoking an, extremely difficult addiction to break” (The American Lung Association, 2011). Smoking is also related to many health problems especially respiratory diseases such as lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). They also relate smoking with relaxation and as a stress reliever, but there is nothing positive about this nasty habit. Even though some say smoking helps them to relax, they need to stop smoking for their health because smoking is the cause of many health problems. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), “the percentage of American adults who smoke decreased from 20.9 percent in 2005 to 19.3 percent in 2010. That translates to three million fewer smokers than there would have been with no decline. But almost one in five adults still smoke” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011. P. 1). Based on a national health survey conducted in 2010 of the three million of...
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...One of my habits is smoking, and I developed this habit due to influence from my peer many years ago. The role models for the smoking habit were some of my friends who used to smoke cigarettes. When I joined a group of friends who used to smoke, I found myself smoking too, and it is now became a daily habit. They encouraged me and I started smoking slowly, but it became a habit. From the National Institute on Drug Abuse (2006), a habit is acquired behavior pattern being developed through constant repetition. Therefore, I kept smoking every day, and the smoking behavior became automatic. I now continue smoking because I am addicted to it. This is because smoking has caused some changes in my body and the way I act to them thus continuing to smoke. The changes in the ways I act have now developed over time, and these changes have become my smoking habit. For example, when I am stressed, I use cigarettes as an outlet for my frustrations. I am used to a smoking environment where my friends keep on smoking thus making me continue smoking. There has been a time I attempted to break this habit, to no avail. Kleinman and Messina-Kleinman (2000) argue that ignorance is one of the causes that contribute to persistent smoking. The government has tried to raise awareness on smoking, but the tobacco companies have increased advertisement of tobacco. Thus, it is difficult for people to break the habit of smoking. Moreover, tobacco has nicotine that makes one addicted thus making it hard for...
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...Smoking is a prevalent behavior all around world, and it brings about a series of risk consequences about health. According to WHO( 2009), more than 5 million people die from diseases related to tobacco use worldwide each year, and it is expected to grow. Even just the number of those who died from second hand tobacco smoke has increased up to 600,000 each year (WHO, 2009). In Australia, smoking is considered to be the key risk factor for the three diseases that cause most deaths: heart disease, stroke and lung cancer (Health Insite, 2010). It is responsible for around 80% of all lung cancer deaths and 20% of all cancer deaths, and additionally, smoking has also been linked to cancers of the mouth, bladder, kidney, stomach and cervix, among others. Smokers are also at increased risk of having reduced lung function from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(Health Insite, 2010). Using tobacco has been linked to a variety of other conditions, such as diabetes, peptic ulcers, some vision problems, and back pain. Smoking in pregnancy can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth or premature birth (Health Insite, 2010). Meanwhile, the impact of smoking on children who are exposed to environmental tobacco smoke includes a greater risk for respiratory illness, higher rates of respiratory tract infections, and sudden infant death syndrome (Dossey & Keegan, 2009). Moreover, smoking is a hard habit to get rid of, because tobacco contains nicotine which is highly addictive. Therefore, success in...
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...Introduction 3 Purpose and Scope 3 Assumptions 3 Methods 4 Limitations 4 Background to Study 4 Smoking is a Young-Adult Issue 4 Smoking is a School Issue 5 Conclusion 5 Highlights of the Research 5 Recommendations 6 Support to Help Smokers Transition 6 The Great American Smokeout 6 Suggestions for FAU Boca Raton Campus 7 References 8 Appendix 1 (Attached) Introduction Many college students have smoked for years and want to quit. Others never even smoked but are prone to the same illnesses as the smokers. Recent studies show that there is an intense need for effective smoking cessation programs on campus. Among all smokers, the prevalence by age is highest among college-age people (ages 18-24). The annual prevalence of tobacco use among all smokers since 1990 has remained virtually unchanged, meaning that other age groups are decreasing tobacco use, while college students are smoking at a greater rate. Tobacco causes disease and premature death in nonsmoking as well as smoking adults. In the United States, secondhand smoke is thought to cause about 46,000 heart disease deaths each year. Of all smokers, one in three will die prematurely from tobacco use. One step colleges and universities can take to reduce smoking among students is by making campuses smoke-free. Purpose and Scope The goal of this report is to bring awareness to the problem of smoking on campus and to persuade authorities to introduce a smoke-free policy on our campus. The report is designed...
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...Caraga State University Ampayon, Butuan City ADDICTION OF CIGARETTES SMOKING INSIDE THE CSU CAMPUS Mucram, Jamael C. 09070123796 Jhon Mark C. Gomez, Anchie G. Ruperto,Bompat Tagupa, Eunilyn R. Villafañe, Junalyn G. Cuevas, Kate Ariane A. I. Introduction a. Definition Nicotine is one of more than 4,000 chemicals found in the smoke from tobaccoproducts;it is the primary component that acts on the brain. Smokeless tobacco products(for example,snuffand chewing tobacco) also contain many toxins as well as high levelsof nicotine. Nicotine is anaturally occurring colorless liquid that turns brown whenburned and takes on the odor of tobaccowhen exposed to air. There are many species of tobacco plants the tabacum species serving as themajor source of today's tobacco products. Extensive study shows it to have a number of complex andsometimes unpredictable effects on the brain andt he body. As any smoker can tell you, nicotine is a remarkably addictive drug; only aboutsevenpercent who try to quit smoking on their own last at least one year. Nicotine is amongthe mostheavily used addictive drugs in the country, in spite of the long-known facts regardingsmoking'spotential to cause lung cancer and many other health problems. b. Psychological Disturbance Many smoke as a way to cope with stress, according to the Cleveland Clinic website. Psychologically speaking, this may be true to some extent since nicotine can temporarily alter moods and make feelings...
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...SOST30202: Assessed Assignment 1 Literature: The collective dynamics of smoking in a large social network by Christakis N, Fowler J. Social network analysis [SNA] is the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, computers, URLs, and other connected information/knowledge entities. The nodes in the network are the people and groups while the links show relationships or flows between the nodes. SNA provides both a visual and a mathematical analysis of human relationships (Orgnet, 2013). It is a study of social networks and how the network someone belongs to affects that individual and also how the individual selects or affects (influences) the network. This report will focus on the concepts namely influence, selection and homophily separately and also with reference to the literature, ‘The Collective Dynamics of Smoking in a Large Social Network’ by Christakis and Fowler (2008) and will then attempt to assess the results of the study and discuss the various questions in poses for its readers. Andrew Lansley, Member of the British Parliament said, ‘’Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses’’. This quote is very apt to what the literature in question talks about. Christakis and Fowler (2008) inspect the scale of person-to-person spread of smoking behaviour and the extent to which clusters of people quit together, using network analytic methods and longitudinal statistical models...
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...Health Literacy Assignment After reading the entire 44 page informational booklet titled "Clear Horizons" from the National Institues of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I felt impowered to quit smoking, eventhough I am not a smoker. This booklet was easy to read, covered many situations, myths, and tips on quitting. This particular booklet was geared at people who are 50 years old and older and uses a transtheorectical model or stages of making a change. I felt they did an excellant job targeting that population and really hit on some emotional asspects of being an older adult. The booklet beginnings with asking the reader about health problems they are experiencing. I personally thought this was a great eduational...
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...Would You Still Light Up? The current electronic cigarette was introduced to the world in 2004. It had an initial optimistic objective to offer smokers a third choice, other than quitting or suffering the consequences of smoking. The new device almost seemed unreal; it was an electronic device resembling the look of a normal cigarette with inhalable doses from a vaporized solution of nicotine. This invention allowed the e-cigarette companies to thrive from drastically multiplying sales rates. However, as popularity of these devices were booming, researchers and experts in the medical and scientific field started throwing doubts and questions about the safety of the products that we should not disregard. The United States Food and Drug Administration was not able to provide us with a clear answer, however, the negative indication hinted that electronic cigarettes were not as safe as they sounded or seemed. The risks and dangers of electronic cigarettes seem too high before any further research because of the posed threats towards children, questionable effectiveness for smokers themselves, and the produced harmful secondhand vapor. Although there was not enough emphasis on the level of danger yet, the use of electronic cigarettes have proven to be harmful for children and young adults in many ways. For example, recently there was an incident in Kansas that curious children have swallowed the refill liquids of electronic cigarettes. This consumption of the liquids containing...
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...Tobacco Cessation Effectiveness in Youth and Adolescence Despite the development of smoking cessation medications and aids, tobacco use remains a major societal problem in America today. The systemic effects of the nicotine contained in tobacco and absorbed by the body leave a devastating footprint on smokers and non-smokers alike. The financial strain on the healthcare system is self-evident. The research gathered has proven to be inadequate because the sample sizes are small, and the researchers did not properly record statistics to prove effectiveness of the cessation programs. There are three very effective steps for adolescent cessation: screen for tobacco dependency with families, counsel and use behavioral interventions and prescription medications, and finally educate parents about the dangers of second hand smoke. Lack of accessibility to numerous tobacco dependence treatments remains an issue. Furthermore, impact on health from tobacco use has been documented profusely, yet the tobacco industry still continues to lure adolescents and adults with the advertising and promotional markets. One in two smokers will die prematurely of a disease caused by dependence on tobacco. After reading findings by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, it is stated that “youths also are susceptible to tobacco advertising, and those who are exposed to frequent advertisements for tobacco are more likely to smoke than those who are...
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...and behaviors through the cognitive processes. It explores the internal mental processes and the way people perceive, memorize, believe and solve problems. Cognitive is psychology that is relative to human behaviors that focuses on the way people think and such thought process that affect their way of behaviors. Discussion One of my habits is smoking, and I developed this habit due to influence from my peer group at the college. The role models for the smoking habit were some of my friends who used to smoke cigarettes. When I joined the college, I used not to smoke. However, when I joined a group of friends who used to drink and smoke, I found myself smoking too, and it became a daily habit. Some of the people who influenced me to adopt this habit are my roommates. This is because they used to smoke daily when we have left the lecture room going to sleep. They encourage me and I started smoking slowly, but it became a habit. From the National Institute on Drug Abuse (2006), a habit is acquired behavior pattern being developed through constant repetition. Therefore, I kept smoking every day, and the smoking behavior became automatic. I now continue smoking because I am addicted to it. This is because smoking has caused some changes in my body and the way I act to them thus continuing to smoke. The changes in the ways I act have now developed...
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...explore the influence of two types of television programs: narratives (dramas, comedies, and soap operas) versus nonnarratives (light entertainment, sports, documentaries, and news), on smokers’ reactions to antismoking advertisements. In preexposure interviews, daily smokers (n ¼ 779) were asked to watch a particular television program they usually watched. Postexposure interviews were conducted within 3 days of exposure. Results indicated that placing an antismoking ad within a program in which the viewer is focused on the narrative flow of a story may lead to reduced immediate cognitive and emotional impact of the ad and reduced intentions to quit, especially among those for whom the ad is most relevant, such as those preparing to quit smoking. Placing antismoking advertising in light entertainment, sports, documentaries, and news programs may make scarce public health dollars go further. In recent years there has been substantial focus on which types of antismoking advertisements (ads) may be most influential (Biener, 2002; Biener, McCallumKeeler, & Nyman, 2000; Goldman & Glantz, 1998; Pechmann, Zhao, Goldberg, & Reibling, 2003; Witte & Allen, 2000), with...
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...Smoking cigarettes is more than just a physical addiction. Over time, your neural connections are rewired to expect nicotine. If you do not quit cold turkey, your mind goes through the withdrawal process because that chemical stimulant is not there. Beyond the chemical addiction, you also have to deal with breaking the habit and social aspects of smoking. On average, just 4 to 7 percent of people are able to quit smoking cold turkey. This is because nicotine addiction is more complex than just a bad habit. A Physical and Mental Addiction From the moment you take the first drag of a cigarette, nicotine floods your mind. It products endorphins in your mind like dopamine that give you pleasure and make you feel relaxed. At the same time, it also increases your blood...
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