10 reasons for the prevalence of smoking among adolescent
There is no doubt that smoking is one of the phenomena that is not Strange in any society of the world, it is not limited to a certain age group, one of the worst habits that can appear during youth is smoking. This bad habit has health risks that can appear with age. The effects of smoking may be serious on all systems of your body, and some of them may lead to life-threatening complications.
Smoking harms almost all organs of the body; it affects the respiratory system, circulatory system, reproductive system, skin, and eyes, and also increases the risk of various types of cancers. But there is still time to help yourself before falling into these effects by avoiding the causes :
1 -Being influenced by friends and relatives
Teenagers are usually subjected to pressures from their colleagues that push them to smoke, as, in adolescence, friends tend to imitate each other at school, the street, or the club, and it is not limited to that only, it has moved to places of gatherings such as workplaces and cafes, even among soldiers in the army to pass time and strengthening and develop relationships between them and others just to think that it shows them more attractive and social in front of society.
As for relatives, the chances of smoking are increased in adolescents who have parents or other close relatives who practice this bad habit.
2-Love of experiment and exploration
In adolescence, young people smoke for experimenting and know what smoking is, but in fact, it turns into an addiction over the years, and the absence of an effective family role in guiding adolescents, the teenager lives in a state of distraction during this stage, mixing his feelings, desires, needs, and aspirations and needs someone to guide him, and when the role of mother or father is absent, this teenager resorts to smoking.
3-Stress and anxiety
Teenagers resort to smoking to relieve anxiety and stress, and look for relaxation, even temporarily; although nicotine creates a direct feeling of relaxation-which makes a person think that he got relief from it - but this feeling is temporary and quickly goes away and turns into withdrawal symptoms.
It has been scientifically proven that the nicotine that makes up cigarettes does not help relieve tension and stress, on the contrary, cigarettes are a direct cause of depression. Smoking affects all the functions of the body and destroys them and weakens the ability of the brain to control them, so the smoker suffers from a state of tension, nervousness, and stress attacks to a greater extent than his non-smoker, and because smoking kills all the useful cells of the body at a very high rate, it leads to stress and anxiety.
Incidents of abuse, family problems, and .separation are among the factors that lead many teenagers to experience smoke.
4- Being influenced by parents
Raising a child in a home where one or both parents smoke causes the child's susceptibility to smoking to increase in the future compared to children who live with non-smoking parents, in addition, parents who consider smoking to be acceptable behavior, even if they are not smokers, can push their children to smoke.
the child or teenager may see that smoking is not harmful, he imitates adults, and from this point on, he may imagine himself to become older and more masculine when he holds a cigarette and may tend to feel independent from his parents may tolerate smoking in front of their children؛ Therefore, parents ' smoking habit is considered to be an encouragement in itself to smoke cigarettes for their children.
The absence of family control for children and adolescents is one of the most important reasons that lead to learning about smoking and addiction to it; from the family environment to the community, a child or teenager may meet a bad companion and learn negative habits from him, most notably smoking, and this means that the commitment to raise children in a smoke-free environment is important but not enough, as parents must also show the extent of their rejection and society's rejection of this unhealthy habit.
5-Announcements
Advertising that promotes tobacco products plays a role in the spread of smoking among adolescents advertising campaigns are a powerful tool to attract more and more people to try smoking, especially young people and adolescents, and their various methods of attraction use colors that attract the viewer's eye or resort to characters who are loved by young and old. and the state must control advertisements to be suitable for children and youth.
6- The influence of the media
The media has portrayed the smoker well over the years and in various parts of the world, as many ads show a large number of actors in films smoking, which has a greater impact in attracting a wide base of viewers to the behavior of this habit, especially if the smoker is an actor who enjoys great popularity and a beloved personality.
The spread of tobacco use in shows on the internet, in video games, and on television through the heroes of series and movies, studies have shown that young people who watch smoking in movies are more likely to smoke and therefore the media have to highlight The harm of smoking, its impact on health, and its unacceptable manifestation to reduce the number of smokers in the future.
The media has witnessed a real revolution in recent years and has made huge and unprecedented leaps in the past few years, and, naturally, the role of the media stands out when talking about the issue of smoking, as the media can play a leading enlightening role in the fight against smoking of all kinds and forms.
The role of the media in the fight against smoking should develop as the methods of the promoters of this destructive scourge have developed, it makes no sense to continue to work with the same old methods that have proved useless, bored people, and turned away from them.
7- Depression
Sadness is one of the basic emotions, but if sadness intensifies or is prolonged, turning into depression, it becomes a disease that leads to dysfunction. Some still believe that it breathes out feelings of sadness and depression with the flow of smoke rising from the cigarette, which contains an active and stimulating ingredient known as nicotine.
The susceptibility of people to smoking increases if they go through a depressive state; nicotine stimulates the release of dopamine in the brain, a hormone that has a role in enhancing positive emotions, which are low in people with depression; therefore, the depressed person resorts to smoking to raise dopamine levels, even temporarily, and it is worth noting that depressed people have additional difficulties when trying to quit smoking; withdrawal symptoms when quitting are more severe than in other groups.
8-Genetic factors
Countless parents practice this harmful habit and do not care about their health, and this, of course, is up to them. However, all parents who smoke should know that smoking not only affects their health but also negatively affects the lives of their children and may lead them to serious diseases that their weak and slender bodies cannot tolerate.
Studies conducted by researchers on the relationship of addiction to genetic factors are not aimed at finding the gene that controls addiction, but these studies and research try to link a set of factors that increase the risk of a person falling into the addiction cycle, including doubts about the influence of genes and family history of one of its members with the experience of addiction, in addition to the social factors that a person has in the surrounding environment and other health factors that he goes through, such as alcoholism and other narcotic substances such as cocaine, heroin or any pattern again.
A study published in the journal (Psychiatric Clinics of North America) in 2012 showed that addiction to narcotic drugs, including nicotine, which is the active substance in cigarettes, can be genetic, emphasizing that the genetic effect does not mean the transmission of drug addiction from one generation to another, but rather reflects the ability of a person to acquire the habit of smoking, and it is worth noting that the expansion of these studies can contribute to identifying the foci where the concerned authorities should focus their awareness efforts to reduce the risks of smoking addiction.
9-A way to get rid of the stresses and burdens of life
Smoking for some people away from those suffering from mental and nervous disorders is a self-treatment, but this time it is a treatment for these stresses .
when a person is going through difficult times or is required to complete a difficult task in record time, he immediately finds a cigarette in his hand and then puts it in his mouth to take a breath out of his mouth that expresses his nervousness and anxiety, he views the cigarette as a treatment for the psychological and nervous state that he is going through until he finishes the work required of him or the situation to which he was subjected.
But these people are missing the fact that tobacco products are a stress-inducing tool, and the proof of this is that once the stressful situation is over, they do not resist smoking it and it remains inherent in them.
10-Lack of proper knowledge about the harm of cigarettes
The tricks of tobacco companies in advertising their products do not provide the correct knowledge about the health risks associated with their products. Among these tricks and lies is the claim that they produce cigarettes that are less harmful than others. Instead of you, the smoker tends to quit smoking, he continues his addictive habit by trying safer and more harmful cigarettes, according to the information provided to him by the tobacco-producing company about it. the person remains in his addictive circle because nicotine levels still permeate his body.
Smoking negatively affects the human body, as it produces many negative effects harmful to the individual, some of which may lead to life-threatening complications, and in fact, smoking harms almost all organs of the body, as it affects the respiratory system, circulatory system, reproductive system, skin, eyes, and also increases the risk of various types of cancers, it should be noted that smoking leads to addiction to the stimulant nicotine found in tobacco, and this makes the process of quitting smoking a difficult task, and in fact, the negative effects of smoking do not affect the smoker only, as they harm the surrounding individuals and those who breathe smoke in a non - Straight.
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