BEHAVIOR OF SMOKING

Behavior of Smoking

Behavior of Smoking

In the past few years the government has made every effort to reach the masses, in an attempt to curb the exploitation of tobbacco use, and its acceptance among Americas Youngsters. On the other hand, cigarette smoking among young people is on the mount. The premise that the behavior of adolescents is influenced by the behavior of their parents is central to many considerations of health and social behavior (Ausubel, Montemayor, & Svajiian, 1977; Bandura & Walters, 1963). Many young people between 10-18 years of age experiment with smoking; smoking is a personal choice, and usually exploratory in nature.

Typically, it takes place in rather young people and is largely dependent on: first, the availability of opportunity to engage in the behavior, second, having a fairly high degree of curiosity about the effects of the behavior; third, in finding it a way of expressing either conformity to the behavior or others (such as parents, older siblings or peers), forth, as in 'Miller and Dollar's' explanation of Observational Learning, The Copying behavior effect (Lind, 2002).

Classical Conditioning Negative Reinforcement

The habit of smoking can be easily explained with the help of Classical conditioning; where a conditioned response leads to a conditioned response which has risen from unconditioned response caused by an unconditioned stimulus.

Positive and Negative Reinforcement

Positive reinforcement is when a child is given a reward for stopping a bad habit or for doing something good. The chills knows that he shall be given a reward for the action done therefore he will repeat that habit and this is called Positive Reinforcement.

Negative reinforcement is when behaviour prevents feelings of unpleasantness; this makes it more likely for this type of behaviour to be repeated. An example of this is people who smoke cigarettes; they repeat the ...