Difficult To Quit Smoking

Imagine for moment a beautiful Sunday evening, after finishing a delicious pot roast with vegetables. You retreat to the rocking chair on the western coroner of the porch, its summer so the sun has not yet set, and the sunlight can be seen dancing through the leaves of the trees, as time progresses, hues of red light begin to take over the sky. You sit back in your rocking chair and light up a cigarette. The taste most defiantly leaves a little to be desired, but as you breathe in and exhale, you feel as if all your tensions you have bottled up inside have been released. This is the reason most smokers find it difficult to quit smoking. The act itself is relaxing, although not every cigarette a person smokes is this picturesque moment depicted, …show more content…
Perhaps on a subconscious level some smokers, have some sort of happy memory associated with smoking and the desire to smoke is simply a moment of nostalgia. In fact, Native Americans used tobacco for ceremonial practices as well as medicinal purposes, and when Christopher Columbus came to the Americas in 1492, he was introduced to the practice of smoking tobacco. When he later returned to Europe, he brought back with him some tobacco leaves along with some seeds. Over time the use of tobacco spread across Europe, where many people believed that it helped cure almost any common aliment (Brooks). In today’s modern world tobacco use has grown from this ceremonial practice to an everyday occurrence. In fact many people are addicted to tobacco use, due to the presence of the addictive substance nicotine, named after Jean Nicety whom brought tobacco from Portugal to France in the mid-16th century (Yamamoto). According to the American Cancer Society, as of 2012 nearly 18 percent of the population is addicted to some form of a tobacco product. This is a dramatic improvement from the 1965 statistics where nearly 45 percent of America regularly used tobacco products (ACS). I myself find myself easily addicted to this substance. I have been smoke intermediately …show more content…
In the case of addiction the real addiction is not a mere physical addition, although present in addiction, but rather a psychological dependence on the abused substance. According to the American Psychological Association, the psychological depended on a substance is very difficult to overcome, and that many treatment plans are somewhat considered pseudoscience. The problem is that not everyone has the same psychological barriers to overcome addiction. Therefore a one size fits all, standardized treatment, for overcoming addiction does not exist (APA). Therefore, the best approach for someone wanting to overcome addiction would be to seek out psychological therapy to determine the underlying psychological barriers that exist in the individual psyche. The aforementioned research at the National Cancer Institute also indicates, that although an individual may discontinue the use of tobacco if they use nicotine replacement therapy it continues to accelerate the proliferation of cancer cells leading to the spread of cancer, therefore the best method of discontinuing the use of tobacco products, is to bring the use to an abrupt and sudden in by quitting cold turkey. In order to achieve this individuals can obtained a nicotine free electronic cigarettes can give them the sensation of smoking without the negative side effects of the tobacco or nicotine. While using this