Psychological Anxieties and Smoking

Running head: PSYCHOLOGY
Psychology
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1PSYCHOLOGY
I is known to everyone that the perspective of cigarette smoking is very injurious to
health by all concerns. The psychologists have found that the human beings tend to smoke from
their psychological anxieties. This issue must be taken care and strict actions must be
implemented to stop people from smoking (Leventhal and Zvolensky: 175). The views of the
psychologists and the smokers will be discussed in this paper to highlight their situations. The
alternative ways of handling stress and psychological anxiety will be detailed here also.
According to the psychologists, the connection between mood and nicotine is going on
for a long time indeed. Some regular smokers have also opined that this practice of smoking
eases off their tensions and anxieties within a few moments (Tidey and Miller: 28). In some
countries, people are very much aware of the physical hazards that can be caused from the
practice of smoking. Some researchers have also revealed the fact that smoking creates an impact
on the mental health of the people also (Leventhal and Zvolensky: 175). The actual reasons of
smoking always differ person by person. Therefore, ir will be better for everyone if they try to
know about the reason and start convincing people about staying away from this practice.
Once smoking becomes a regular habit for a person, it becomes almost impossible for
him to quit this habit. There are some biological factors behind the reasons for smoking. Experts
have found their reason that there is a typical form through which the brain responds to nicotine.
It has been proven that the dose of nicotine will reach the brain of a person within ten seconds
only (Fluharty et al. 10).
There are some good effects of nicotine regarding its impact on the human psychology.
After the intake of nicotine, the mood of the person will become refreshed, the mood of the
person will be improved and he will be able to concentrate on the work even better. It will also