Why do people smoke – Fiqihislam.id

Smoking is an addiction that causes 20,000 deaths per year in the Netherlands alone. Smoking involves inhaling smoldering tobacco. This causes the body to receive many toxins. Yet many people start smoking every year, young people are especially susceptible to this. Why do people smoke?

Why start smoking?

Most people start smoking during their early years, usually during puberty. For many, smoking is a status, a way to belong. Young people quickly take over smoking from each other.Smoking is also easily picked up from colleagues during work. Non-smoking people regularly see their colleagues lighting a cigarette and chatting pleasantly with each other. They often admit that smoking is a form of relaxation. Non- smoking people are sometimes inclined to adopt this behavior from their colleagues.Another reason for smoking is the transition from smoking pot to smoking, but also for medical/psychological reasons such as pain or stress. So most people start out out of curiosity , and eventually continue because they like it. Smoking is addictive. For both body and mind.

Physical addiction

A cigarette contains nicotine. Nicotine is a drug that is addictive. It affects concentration and the mind. The brain gets a calming effect from the nicotine. The nicotine also works very quickly: after seven to ten seconds after pulling on a cigarette, the substance already has an effect on the brain.When the body becomes accustomed to nicotine, it becomes addictive. When you don’t smoke, withdrawal symptoms occur because the body starts asking for nicotine. These withdrawal symptoms can vary, but usually include restlessness, insomnia, difficulty concentrating, coughing, headache, and intestinal congestion. The symptoms ensure that someone quickly reaches for a cigarette again.

Mental addiction

Smokers are also mentally addicted. They often think they cannot perform without a cigarette. Addicted smokers will experience difficulty concentrating when they don’t smoke for a while (withdrawal phenomenon), which only increases this feeling.Smoking also has a social aspect: smoking is a pleasant moment of the day for many people when done together with others. People often smoke together, especially at work or during parties.The craving for a cigarette can persist for months, even when the nicotine has long disappeared from the body. This is due to years of habituation to smoking in certain situations. Most smokers light up a cigarette after dinner, during a party, during a break, etc. Breaking this habit can often be difficult.

Is smoking nice?

For non-smokers, the smell of a cigarette is often disgusting. The air lingers for a long time in clothing, hair, curtains and rooms. Smokers also sometimes experience this smell as unpleasant. However, smokers experience the taste of a cigarette very differently. The tobacco flavor is a nice taste for many smokers. The manufacturer can also add an extra flavor to the tobacco, such as vanilla, cocoa or menthol. This last flavor is especially popular.People who smoke for the very first time often do not like the taste. Some people feel like they are eating out of an ashtray. There are also people who like the taste right away.

First time smoking

Smoking often happens under the influence of others: friends, family, colleagues. But someone can also test it alone. Several things can happen during the very first time you smoke:

Taste: people find a cigarette very nasty, not tasty, reasonable or tasty. It also depends on whether one has previously ‘second-hand smoke’ (being in a room where others smoke).
Feeling: some get a wonderful feeling from it: it makes them feel high, feel good or carefree. Others do not have these feelings.
Sick: Some people can feel quite bad after the first puff of a cigarette. This can manifest itself as nausea, vomiting, dizziness, headache or the feeling of choking.
Coughing: In general, most people will cough. This is a normal phenomenon. The lungs receive highly toxic substances, which they try to excrete through coughing. When the lungs become accustomed to these toxins, coughing decreases. Long-term smoking causes another type of cough: smoker’s cough.

Smoking is deadly

Lung cancer is a major consequence of smoking. 86 percent of men who die from lung cancer are due to smoking, while this percentage is 69 percent for women. Smoking also causes other forms of cancer such as bladder cancer, kidney cancer, stomach cancer, cervical cancer, throat cancer, esophageal cancer or mouth cancer.A cerebral infarction or cerebral hemorrhage is most common in smokers under the age of 65. This is the result of arteriosclerosis, which is caused by smoking. Sagging legs are caused by a lack of oxygen in the leg muscles. This also involves arteriosclerosis, caused by smoking. 90 percent of people with clack legs smoke.Chest pain is more common in smokers. It is an oppressive, pressing pain behind the breastbone that disappears with rest. It is caused by arteriosclerosis, which can be a result of smoking. A myocardial infarction is the occlusion of a coronary artery by a blood clot. The pain is the same as chest pain, but the pain does not go away with rest. A heart attack can be fatal. Smokers are twice as likely to die from a heart attack than non-smokers.

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