Why we start smoking

As a rule, most of the smokers begin to smoke at youth or even from little up. Everybody imagine why 9-10-year-old boy begins behind parents back, inhaling cigarettes and puffing smoke.

Everything is clear he wants to look like a grown-up, as they say cooler. He does it not for himself, but for coevals and for company in general.

First of all, stereotype of adult man smoker has been aroused in the society. If all the men around the child (relatives, acquaintances) are smokers, its a standard as he sees it. He wants to become adult as soon as possible. This is the fact that if somebody smokes in the family, probability that children will smoke in future increases by 50-60%.

Secondly, coevals play one of the most important roles in this case. If friends or senior pupils smoke one wants to try too. Its one of the essential reasons why girls begin to smoke. They smoke because their friends smoke. The matter concerns the mechanism of social dependence.

Thirdly, its still a question why on TV screens the image of the tough hero smoker is created. As the community of developed countries paid the attention to this question, now different organizations struggle with this, and more often we watch movies where heroes lead healthy life-style. As a matter of fact, according to the statistics 57% of main movie-heroes are smokers in the films of 90ths.

Many people begin to smoke cigarettes during stress, being in crisis situation of life. More often it happens at the age of 40-50 years. People, who have never taken cigarettes in hands, begin to smoke; when somebody stretches the pack of cigarettes in ones hour of need: smoke you will feel better. This process gives temporary relief indeed. The problem is forgot for several minutes while smoking.

During the moment of mental tension smoker doesnt need to bite nails or pen. He has cigarette or pipe. Every smoker is aware of the fact that nicotine stimulates the brain in a certain way. The point is that nicotine intensifies the communication between brain cells neurons. Neurons begin to show the activity almost at once (because nicotine penetrates the brain in several seconds).

Adrenaline, hydrocortisone, growth hormone are exuded.

Nevertheless, it is better not to begin to smoking at all!