LEARN  NEW WAYS TO STOP SMOKING

It is quite difficult to fully comprehend why people smoke cigarettes especially for people who are classed as non-smokers. Smoking cigarettes is not a natural or pleasurable thing to do.

Why would they want to waste so much of their hard earned money on this disgusting smoking habit, and damage their health in this way.

Why do people smoke for the first time?

Most smokers began their habit when they were in their early teens.

Teenage peers often urge an adolescent to engage in smoking. Other reason may be desire to seem older or sophisticated.
Teenage girls sometimes smoke to control their appetites and refuse to give up smoking because they fear gaining weight. Also smoking parents who should avoid tobacco themselves act as role models for youths.

In result adolescents often begin smoking because they want just to look older and they want to emulate or impress their peers. Once these people start smoking it becomes an addiction and then quitting it becomes a major problem.

Why people continue to smoke?

They continue smoking well into adulthood, often experiencing great difficulty in wresting themselves free from this addiction.

But many adults have their own reasons for continuing to smoke.

• Nicotine addiction. The main reason why people carry on smoking even though they are aware of the various risks of smoking is because of the fact that tobacco is addictive in nature.
• Genotypes. Particular genotypes have been linked to earlier smoking initiation and may increase susceptibility to nicotine addiction.
• Cope with stress or nerves. In fact, smoking does not really relax you at all or help you cope with unpleasant situations. As nicotine is a stimulant; it makes your heart beat faster and raises your blood pressure.
• Have a break. Some people say that smoking provides them a way to take a break from work therefore they perceive it as an excuse to be free.
  
  
• Relax. Some people say that they feel care free and not burdened by responsibilities when they are smoking which relieves them from most of the anxieties. People probably think that smoking relaxes them, when in reality, smoking a cigarette, just stops the withdrawal symptoms that have begun to kick in after not having one for a while.
• Weight Control. The belief that smoking controls weight may encourage smoking, particularly in girls, although research indicates smoking does not in fact suppress body weight.
• Smoking can also be a result of oral fixation which starts right form the time when we are born. Infants start it with suckling and then when they are weaned they start thumb sucking.
  
  

Nevertheless when people have realized of dangerous effects of tobacco smoking the question “Why Do People Smoke” became essential.