Cigarette Addiction in Adolescents

Introduction

Cegarette Smoking in adholescnets is alarming for several reasons. First, those who started daily smoking in adolescence, usually smoked all his life. Secondly, smoking increases the risk of chronic diseases (heart disease, cancer, emphysema). Third, although the chronic diseases associated with smoking, usually appear only in adulthood, adolescents - smokers are more likely to suffer from coughing, respiratory dysfunction, formation of phlegm, wheezing and other respiratory symptoms.

The smoking addiction in adolescents begins when one of the following habits are formed:

The nicotine dependence caused by smoking cigarettes

The addiction occurs through substances such as marijuana, cocaine and heroin.

When smoking one of these dangerous substances becomes habitual, compulsive develops an addiction. If subsequently the substance is not administered, the smoking experience withdrawal symptoms because the body has to readjust to function without the substance. Scientific research has shown that most young smokers were influenced to start smoking, watching their friends or older siblings smoke. The susceptibility of an adolescent peer pressure is also affected by the approval or disapproval of smoking parents. Likewise, advertising may reinforce smoking. The techniques of marketing media can create the impression that smoking is a socially acceptable norm.

Smokers quickly become addicted to the nicotine in snuff. A survey indicates that adolescents have the same levels of nicotine dependence as adults. A third of smokers light their first cigarette within thirty minutes following waking (Martin, 1495). One of twelve lights it within the first five minutes. More than half said they would struggle to endure a week without smoking, while 72% say they would have difficulty to abandon completely.

Causes of Adolescent Smoking

Imitating other pupils, students;

A sense of novelty and interest;

The desire to seem older, self-sufficient;

The girls initiation to smoking is often associated with coquetry, a desire for originality and a desire to please boys.

However, by short and irregular in the beginning of smoking, there is a real unnoticed habit of tobacco to nicotine. Nicotine is which is a neurotropic poison becomes habitual and without the effect of steady-reflex becomes difficult to manage. Many pathological changes occur immediately, but at a certain "seniority" of smoking (cancer of the lungs and other organs, myocardial infarction, gangrene of the feet, etc.) Students due to the fact that few care about their health, can not appreciate the force of the immaturity of the severity of the consequences of smoking. For the student life at 10 - 15 years (when symptoms appear) seems to be something very far away, and he lives today, knowing that quit smoking at any time. But quitting is not easy, this can ask any smoker.

Discussion

Teenage Cigarette addiction first began to emerge in the U.S. and other Western countries in the late 50s - early 60s, and teenage Cigarette addiction in the Soviet Union began to emerge in the late 60s. Studies in adolescents are more numerous and show a significant increase in the consumption of psychoactive substances with age, especially with a sharp increase from the age of 15. At this age, approximately 40 to ...