Although it is accepted by everyone that smoking is harmful today, according to the statistics of the World Health Organization, one in 3 adults smokes.
People have different reasons for starting to smoke. Generally, the start of smoking occurs in early adolescence and Psychosocial factors play an important role. Young people who start smoking give the message of "growing up" to those around them, while also feeling like they are expressing their sexual identity to the opposite sex. It is also very common to think that smoking gives popularity and attractiveness to the smoker. The smoking rate of children growing up in homes where their parents smoke is also quite high.
10-20 seconds after smoking, nicotine reaches the brain and causes the secretion of a substance called dopamine. This is the chemical that causes pleasure. Each time you smoke a cigarette, nicotine triggers the same pathway in the brain, making you feel pleasure. After a while, the body gets used to this amount of nicotine and it is necessary to smoke more cigarettes to feel the same pleasure each time.
During smoking, the smoker, on the one hand, gets pleasure, and on the other hand, begins to lose his health due to the damaging effects of smoking.
Harmful substances such as Carbon Monoxide, Nicotine and Tar contained in tobacco disrupt the natural defense system of the lungs, causing the smoker to frequently get lung infections, while on the other hand, they cause lung cancer, COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases) and cardiovascular diseases. leads to a significant increase. These diseases seriously impair people's quality of life and have fatal consequences.
Despite knowing all these health risks, smokers complain that they want to quit smoking but cannot, and they list many reasons (defenses) for continuing to smoke.
When I don't smoke; “I'm hurting everyone”, “I can't concentrate”, “I'm gaining weight”, “my intestines are not working”, “my head is not working”, “I can't think”, “I can't be productive” etc.……….
Encountering the harmful consequences of smoking Smokers who do not want to smoke try various ways to quit smoking.
Some people quit smoking on their own. They can quit without the help of others or the use of medication. But for many smokers, coping with cigarette addiction can be difficult.
Smoking addiction; It is a chronic behavioral disorder that manifests itself in the form of constantly seeking and smoking cigarettes obsessively, despite its negative consequences.
Stimulants (encouraging warning; alcohol, etc.) that push people to seek and smoke cigarettes are triggers and increase the person's level of arousal.
>The pleasure and enjoyment that occurs after smoking, etc. The consequences reinforce the rewarding effects of smoking. Reinforcers do not always have to be pleasurable.
Tolerance develops over time in smokers. There are 3 types of tolerance.
1-Metabolic tolerance: increases in the enzyme that metabolizes cigarettes, depending on the amount of cigarettes smoked.
2-Physiological tolerance: increases in the number of receptors in the brain, even if the amount of cigarettes smoked remains the same. and decrease in sensitivity
3-Behavioral tolerance: Tolerance develops when the cigarette is always smoked in the same environment, but when the environment changes, the conditionality of the stimulus is eliminated.
If the person who smokes experiences withdrawal symptoms when he quits, that person starts smoking physically. It means that it has developed an addiction.
These symptoms; severe desire to smoke, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, restlessness, headache, dizziness, digestive system problems (constipation), anger, changes in heart rate, sleep disorders, increased appetite and weight gain.
Following quitting smoking, the need for nicotine disappears within a few weeks. The behavior of constantly seeking and using cigarettes obsessively, without physical withdrawal symptoms, is psychological addiction.
Psychological addiction is more important than physical addiction. For this reason, it is useful to provide psychological support to the smoker during the quitting process. Cooperation between the person who quit smoking and the psychotherapist is important.
There are different ways to quit smoking, such as medication, tapes, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy.
People who want to quit smoking can try to quit by choosing the most suitable way for themselves.
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