TREATMENT APPROACH TO YOUTH NICOTINE ADDICTION

Treatment Approach to youth Nicotine Addiction

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of “nicotine abuse” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on the “addiction of nicotine” and the “diverse factors that significantly influence towards the addiction of nicotine especially among young people”. Nevertheless, the research also analyzes “several litigations and regulations” that are constructed to cope with the problem of this addiction. In addition, the research outlines several “effects of the addiction of nicotine”. Finally the research proposes diverse strategies through which “Nicotine addiction” can be prevented and provides a platform for the future studies on it.

Table of Content

Abstract2

Introduction5

Thesis statement6

Discussion and Analysis6

Significance of the Study7

Report by World Health Organization7

Nicotine Addiction8

What are the risks of being a smoker?8

The Action of Nicotine on the Central Nervous System10

Immediate Effects of Nicotine10

Treatment Approach to youth Nicotine Addiction11

Treatment of nicotine dependence11

Drugs used in nicotine dependence11

Current Methods of Treatment of Nicotine Dependence11

Measures to be taken12

Smoking12

Antidepressant and Anxiolytic13

Medical methods of quitting14

Nicotine Replacement Therapy14

Other Methods of Drug Therapy14

Research Analysis15

Statistical Analysis16

Clinical Treatment for Nicotine Addiction17

Tobacco Prevention Program and Youth Addiction18

CSKT Tribal Health Tobacco Prevention Program19

Side Effects of Quitting20

Withdrawal20

Weight Gain20

Conclusion20

References22

Treatment Approach to youth Nicotine Addiction

Introduction

The link between drugs and the performing arts has a long history. Hallucinogens were a staple element in shamanistic cultures, and natural psychoactive drugs, such as the fly agaric mushroom, were in widespread use. In the mechanism of addiction to cigarette smoke, nicotine plays the biggest role. The first symptoms of dependence occur after a few days of smoking, even after firing a few cigarettes. They are similar to symptoms of addiction to other psychoactive substances. This is called the syndrome of dependence on nicotine, which characterized by a strong desire for nicotine and persistent tobacco use in spite of the harmful consequences.

Nicotine addictive effects were largely by interacting with dopaminergic system, acting on specific cellular receptors (neuronal nicotinic receptors). Currently, pharmacological treatment of addiction nicotine, the most serious importance seems to have bupropion. It is a weak antidepressant with significant selectivity for the dopaminergic neurotransmission. May have some meaning other drugs antidepressants, clonidine, and some anxiolytic drugs and therapies combining drugs combined with nicotine administration (mainly in the form of patches dermal).

The Nicotine, the psychoactive substance in tobacco, is a highly addictive substance that may control significant aspects of a person's behavior. It shares a number of common factors with the other recognized euphoriants (i.e., cocaine, opiates, alcohol), producing effects on mood and feeling states, acting as a reinforcer for animals, leading to drug-seeking behavior with deprivation, and showing similar patterns of persistence in the face of evidence that it is highly damaging to health

However, perhaps the first real link between performance, drug use and the rise of popular culture can be found in the popularity of medicine shows in the nineteenth and early twentieth century's in the United States. Medicine shows promoted the use of drugs by both performer and audience, as cocaine and morphine formed the basis of ...