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Why teens begin using Tobacco

Explore the various reasons why teens begin using tobacco, such as peer pressure, parental influence, and media portrayals. Gain insights into tobacco addiction, its physical and psychological aspects, withdrawal symptoms, and physiological and psychological dependence. Understand the complexities of nicotine dependency and psychological associations with smoking habits.

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Why teens begin using Tobacco

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  1. Why teens begin using Tobacco • Friends • Advertising • Believe they can quit any time

  2. Reasons for Tobacco Use Among Teens • Peer Pressure • Mom and Dad smoke • Look more grown up • Look like people on T.V. and in Magazines • Chewing to be like favorite baseball player • It wasn’t hard to get hooked

  3. Tobacco Addiction • Addiction – Physical and psychological need for a drug or other substance • When users try to quit they go through • Withdrawals – unpleasant symptoms that occur when someone stops using an addictive substance • Usually become anxious, depressed, irritable and tired

  4. Physiological Dependence • Type of addiction in which the body itself feels a direct need for a drug • Nicotine is the drug in tobacco • The user does not feel normal until they have had dose of the drug, but the feeling does not last long • User needs it more often to feel its effect

  5. Psychological Dependence • An addiction in which the mind sends the body the message that it needs more of a substance • Created by the pleasurable experience or rewards that smokers associate with smoking • Often linked to daily routines – reading paper, having coffee, etc. • Some smoker may even develope rituals like talking with an unlit cigarette in their mouth while the are talking before they light it

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