It does not cause anxiety to do something that costs so little, and it is as good as a smoker's, it gives him enough relaxation or rest. The effects of smoking visible to him come after many years and depend on the general condition of the person and his physical predispositions. A smoker who has a strong organism, with a dozen or so years of smoking, does not know how he could function better in his age (if nothing is wrong) if he did not smoke, what would he have more and what would have changed enough to make him think it would be worth taking . To this truth, on which the smokers' confirmation will find a lot of evidence in their environment is also the fact that not every smoking person dies of cancer.
Studies on the effects of smoking show that at least 50% of smokers have serious health problems.
So you can always hope that you are in the second half. What is very important these problems are not a consequence of a single cigarette burnout. This relationship can not be noticed because there are no incidents of single abuse, as in the case of other addictions, when the abuse of something (alcohol, food, work) results in various ailments soon after. In these cases, the relationship is visible, and negating the connection of unpleasant consequences with the abuse of something requires the effort of the mind. It is not like smoking cigarettes.
Abuse and the negative effects of smoking do not combine with a single fired cigarette (and yet we make a break between others, even a short one).
We abuse by smoking more during the day. The easier it is to believe that a single cigarette costs nothing, but we smoke one, unlike alcoholics, who for some time know perfectly well that one glass could not hurt, but the fact of drinking one and stopping on it belongs to past. Consequences of smoking so we do not see. To know them, we would have to do some special work: read something, examine your body, go to the doctor, look for yourself. But no one in their right mind will be willing to look for reasons to scare each other when it seems that it is good and nothing bad is happening. On the other hand, a serious condition diagnosed at some point by a serious illness, a dramatic situation, and does not match the innocent few "balloons", nor is it the result of just smoking a cigarette.
The way of thinking about smoking and its influence (including the negative effects) on functioning depends on:
• knowledge (scientific, fairly objective information about reality - about how it really is)
• way of experiencing smoking - the level of awareness and insight into the whole picture of this activity and its interpretation (self-knowledge)
• positive experiences (benefits) - in what really helped the cigarette
The factors of nicotine addiction are in a structural whole
• the way of thinking about smoking gives birth to expectations connected with it
• a system of beliefs supporting smoking in the opinion of many researchers often decides to reach for a cigarette - triggering the psychophysical readiness of the body for this activity. It can be noticed in smokers' reactions that it is this "philosophy" that is often the strongest shield on which all good advices of the environment are reflected.
Analysis of abstinence breakdowns shows a specific reaction sequence:
Convictions about smoking tend to have the character of distorting rationalization
They are often forms of illusions and denials, mostly leading to: minimizing losses resulting from smoking, exposing profits, undermining the need and the possibility of change (cessation).
It is often the convictions that decide about reaching for a cigarette
• degree of consent (encouragement, hope for positive effects,
• lack of knowledge and imagination about low harmfulness,
• sense of determination etc.
