...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 of frustration...
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...The Child Jesus Kidz Academy 20. Sto. Rosario St., Karuhatan Valenzuela City Effects Of Cigarette Addiction in The Selected Secondary Students of St.Therese of The Child Jesus Kidz Academy Researchers: Bacalangco, John Lorenz P. Dinampo, Ian Howell Steven S. Geronimo, Genesis D. Kistadio, Leigh Marrione P. Javate, Jonathan Clyde G. Madrid, Vincent Alaine A. Submitted to: Ms. Cidro,Josephen P. English Teacher 2015 Chapter I Introduction Acording to Robert West Health Behaviour Research CentreDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health University College London that addiction involves powerful motivation to engage in an activity repeatedly to an extent that is harmful often accompanied by impaired capacity for self-control. To effectively combat addiction to cigarettes requires an understanding that there are several mechanisms underlying it. The Prime Theory of motivation aims to provide a model that can encapsulate these mechanisms. It recognises that evolution has led to multiple levels of motivation from basic impulses and inhibitions, through ‘motives’ (feelings of want and need), to ‘evaluations’ (beliefs about what is good or bad), and plans (intentions regarding future actions). Self-control involves self-consciously generating motives from evaluations or plans; it requires and depletes mental energy. Nicotine from cigarettes generates the motivation to smoke and undermines self-control by interacting with all of the level of motivation...
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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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...Objectives Goal The goal of this smoking cessation dental hygiene CE program is to transfer knowledge to hygienist that they can apply in real-practice to counsel patients in smoking cessation, identify nicotine replacement products, and locate cessation referral sources. This partnership between Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning and Change (IGLC), the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) and WCTC will provide quality up to-date smoking cessation education to practicing dental hygienist improving healthcare’s capacity to reach individual smokers. The societal purpose of this smoking cessation CE program will be to save lives by increasing smoking cessation rates through dental hygiene patient cessation counseling interventions. Program Objectives The purpose of this program will be to provide practicing dental hygienists...
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...their face. People are talking to one another as they light the end of their cigarettes. In 2016 things have changed; cigarettes are banned almost everywhere and electronic cigarettes, known as e-cigs, are the new popular thing. E-cig devices are a way for people all around the world to have a way to smoke without ingesting carcinogens. Experts have discussed the advantages and drawbacks of the product. Some view them as a way to decrease the amount of smokers, but others suppose it is just as harmful. Although people assume e-cigs can be more helpful relative to cigarettes, they should be labeled as a tobacco product because they provoke teen smokers, can be addictive,...
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...people start smoking when they are in their teens and are addicted by the time they reach adulthood. Some have tried to quit but have returned to cigarettes because smoking is such a strong addiction. It is a habit that is very difficult to break. There are many different reasons why people smoke. Three of the main reasons that young people smoke are to look mature, to be like their friends, and to experiment. Since teens see older people all around them smoking, especially their parents and relatives, they smoke to act older. If their friends or peers smoke, they may feel pressured into doing the same to be accepted. The last reason is the excitement of experimenting with something that is forbidden. As defined by The 1988 report, The Health Consequences of Smoking: Nicotine Addiction: A Report of the Surgeon General “,”Nicotine addiction is the fundamental reason that individuals persist in using tobacco products, and this persistent tobacco use contributes to many diseases”. And according to the WHO (World Health Organization) official website, tobacco kills up to half of its users, it also kills nearly 6 million people each year. More than five million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while more than 600 000 are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke and nearly percent of the world's one billion tobacco users live in low- and middle-income countries. The National Institute on Drug Abuse’ research shows that nicotine addiction accounts...
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...Keep simple and polite! Good morning teachers and friends, I, Ahmad Khairi Hafiz as the President of the Environment Club would like to talk about”How to Protect the Environment” First of all, each one of us can start by not littering. We should throw our rubbish into the rubbish bin instead of anywhere we like. Once I went strolling at a park nearby my house but was dissapointed at the sight of rubbish.I saw many empty cans and plastic wrappers lying around.They do not only spoil the beautiful park but they are the best breeding place for aedes mosquitoes. Another way of protecting our environment is by keeping our rivers clean. We can play our role by not throwing rubbish into the rivers. Meanwhile the factories can stop dumping their toxic waste into them. Plastic wrappers which made up 80 percent of the rubbish can endanger the fish and other aquatic lives while toxic waste can kill them. We, human will consequently suffer as we rely on the rivers for food and water. Moreover, farmers should avoid open burning in their farming practice because it polutes the air.Open burning can lead to haze which contains poisonous gases such as carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide. These gases can cause many serious diseases. Children who breathe the polluted air may suffer from asthma and some people may even suffer from rashes and eye-diseases. Finally, we can practice the 3R; Reuse, Reduce and Recycle. Every household should aim at reducing the amount of rubbish thrown.To...
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...The Positive Effects of Smoking Cigarettes There are 1 billion smokers in the world today, and that number is expected to rise to 1.6 Billion within the next 10 years. Smoking is one of the main causes of death in the United States And is the primary cause of many types of cancer and other fatal conditions. Cigarettes are expensive, addictive, and they leave a bad odor. Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you, but not everyone knows it can also save your life. First, nicotine acts as both a stimulant and an appetite suppressant, and smoking activates reactions that prompt smokers to eat less. Smoking also might give food an awkward taste for smokers, causing appetite to vanish. As an appetite suppressant, nicotine works on a part of the brain known as the hypothalamus that gives a person an urge to eat. Secondly, Those who don't smoke cigarettes are more probable to die from a heart attack than a person who has been smoking for an extensive duration of time. The danger of heart attacks is increased in people who smoke cigarettes, but the chances of them dying are lowered. Smokers who survive heart attacks are younger when they are sick, often 10 years younger than smokers just beginning to smoke. Third, Smoking can also lower the risks of needing total knee replacement (TKR). Total knee replacement surgery is for people whose knee joints are damaged either by arthritis and other catastrophic joint diseases. The most common factor for TKR is severe osteoarthritis...
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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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...the earliest recognized instances of smoking being related to ill health. Cigarette making machines were developed in the second half of the 1800s. The first such machines produced about 200 cigarettes per minute, whereas today’s machines produce about 9,000 per minute (A Brief History of Smoking, 2014).Hence, teenagers are becoming addicted to smoking...
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...Regulating the nicotine in cigarettes. In the 70’s the Tabaco companies used unethical research practices, and then hid the documentation for thirty years. In July of 1995 a California congressman said that documents dated as far back as the 70’s show that the world's largest cigarette company tracked hyperactive third graders to see if they would later turn to smoking as a tranquilizer, and gave electric shocks to college students to see if it would make them smoke more. Back in 1995, Rep. Henry A. Waxman displayed stacks of documents from Philip Morris on the House floor that illustrated unethical and possibly illegal research into nicotine. One report had claimed that smokers crave nicotine more than food, Waxman said (Neergaard, 1995). In 1994, CEO William Campbell at Philip Morris testified before congress that Tabaco is not addictive (Neergaard, 1995). “Waxman said his documents prove Philip Morris knew more than a decade before the surgeon general did that nicotine was addictive. He read a 1969 company report for Philip Morris' board of directors that concluded smokers need the "pharmacological effect" of tobacco and that the craving was so great, it "preempts food in times of scarcity on the smoker's priority list."” (Neergaard, 1995, para. 9). Rep. Henry A. Waxman’s biggest concern was about the research projects targeted to young people, particularly those involving shocking college students. Waxman also said that the report included injecting people with nicotine, and that...
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...Running head: CIGARETTES SHOULD BE BANNED OR NOT Should cigarettes be made illegal? Submitted by: Student ID: Tutor’s Name: * Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 1.1 Background of the study 3 1.2 Cigarettes themselves should not be illegal. 4 2. Conclusion 4 References 6 1. Introduction If we think for a moment why people in our society smokes? Despite of the fact that it has extreme and awful effects and there are no particular reasons that it must be legal for anybody. Heart disease, cancers and lung disease are only few of the hundreds of harmful impacts of smoking. What amazes me is why anybody would like to smoke if they truly know how it annihilates their body, also why society wants to keep it legal in any case. In this article, I would say smoking must be made illegal. Various people argue that smoking must not be banned; perhaps the reason is that it’s their personal freedom since smoking is exceptionally addictive and individuals get to be dependent to it. So we will find out in this essay that what makes them saying this. However, if what just leaves smoking is joy, shouldn't the government set health over delight? 2.1 Background of the study Around 400,000 deaths every year in U.S. alone are due to smoking ailments. Why might somebody even get a cigarette without focusing the effects it can cause him or her? Banning of cigarettes must be made legal as cigarettes are an addicting and effective drug which is extremely...
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...Cigarettes are bad for several different reasons. They can lead to lung cancer, they can lead to death, and they are also very expensive. They cause up to, and sometimes more than, 480,000 deaths per year, just in the United States. The leading cause of death, in most cases, is circulatory or cardiovascular disease. In contrast, if you did a survey that asked what causes people to die because of smoking, most people would say "Smoking causes lung cancer, which leads to death." Smoking cigarettes also causes the user to experience lack of endurance, stamina, and normal lung function. There are 43 cancer causing chemicals in the tobacco inside of a cigarette. This means that every time a person takes a puff of a cigarette, they are being exposed to these chemicals. However, it is far more likely that a persons blood flow will clog completely before they have cancer. This causes oxygen flow in the blood to stop which leads to tissue damage, which will eventually lead to tissues suffocating and dying. Smokers are also at more risk of developing heart disease, or having a stroke. Cigarettes also harm most of the organs in our body, which can lead to birth defects and reduced fertility....
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...Introduction It is smoking? It is killing many people? Why, would you want to smoke, if it causes so many dead people have all kinds of excuses for that question, Some of which include: “I’m stressed out”, “I need to lose weight”, and “I just want to fit in”. Would you want to die because you wanted to lose weight, you felt stressed, or you just want to be cool? There are many reasons why you should not-start smoking and why you should stop smoking now. II. Backgroud of the study Smoking is an adaptive behaviour which in most cases acquired when an individual is aware of the effects the associated with the habit. A large number of smokers know both the long and short term, smoking is the major cause of cardiovascular diseases, lung cancer, emphysema, and also premature aging. ‘‘Cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health?” This is the packaging warning message. Cigarette, from the french word “cigarette”, meaning “small cigar”. Is a small cylinder effects of this habit which include respiratory diseases and cancer. Shockingly of finely cut tobacco leaves rolled in thin paper for smoking. The term cigarette is commonly used, refers to a tobacco but can apply to similar devices containing other herbs, such as ascloves or cannabis. The smoking habit is easily acquired by an individual. This is because there are various reasons attract an individual into attempting to smoke. Some individuals take the habit as a show off thus they start smoking since they believe...
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...Why smoking is a bad thing Today, smoking is an issue which is on everybody’s mind. The whole country is divided on this issue. Some believe that smoking should be banned everywhere while others are not so harsh. Tobacco, however, should be outlawed because smoking pollutes the environment, endangers everyone’s health, and wastes taxpayers’ money due to health problems. Cigarette smoking causes a number of health problems which are expensive to treat. It is a major cause of respiratory diseases such as asthma, lung cancer and bronchitis. It also leads to heart disease. In spite of the money which the Government receives from taxing cigarettes, the cost of medical treatment for these diseases exceeds this income. Smoking cigarettes can cost people tens of thousands a dollars a year. As a consequence, non-smoking taxpayers are forced to pay for the health costs of smokers, which is a very unfair situation. Another reason for banning smoking is that cigarette smoke affects the health of non- smokers and unborn babies. Cigarettes are not only harmful to users, but are also damaging to all people around a smoker. Non-smokers often suffer from eye and nose irritations, allergies and headaches as a result of inhaling second-hand smoke. Cigarettes cause a high percent of lung cancer and are responsible for thirty percent of all deaths resulting from cancer. People who have smoked for a significant period of time will have noticeable problems breathing and...
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