Addiction

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Introduction:

Back 1

throughout this answer i will be disscussing how smoking leads to addictive behaviour and one psychological treatment

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Define Addiction:

Back 2

compulsive and psychological need for a habit-forming substance 'a need for a drug'

Addiction as a disease (biomedical model)
Addiction as learnt behaviour (social learning theories)
Addiction as the result of weakness (moral model)

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Addictive Behaviour:
How is behaviour and maintained?
What about social factors?

Back 3

- Models of health behaviours (e.g. HBM, PMT) have been used to examine cognitive/affective factors that contribute to smoking initiation
-parental behaviour is predictive of both smoking and drinking in children

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Psychological treatment:
Clinical Interventions
How does it work?
Does it work?

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Use a combination of approaches that reflect diseases and social learning models of addiction.
Disease Perspective -> Drug seen as addictive with individuals acquiring dependency

Cessation aims to reduce dependency.... when dependency is reduced then individuals will have minimised withdrawal effects.

West and stapleton, 2008 said that NRT and self help is most effective