Oddly enough, the most effective smoking prevention at the moment is fashion, and now it dictates a healthy lifestyle. The romantic flair of cigarettes no longer so fogs immature minds, so the power of tobacco from this point of view is weakening every day. If it used to be fashionable to smoke, and non-smokers were laughed at, now the situation has changed exactly the opposite. Unfortunately, it is impossible to attribute this merit to the state or public organizations, the creation of a negative image of the smoker did not justify itself.
Typically, school smoking prevention is based on the negative effects of tobacco addiction. Diseases, symptoms are listed , and all this is crowned with calls not to smoke, not even to try, and if they tried, urgently quit. However, if we consider the problems of smoking in adolescents, it becomes clear that they will not be frightened by the consequences, because they do not believe that cigarettes become their companion for many years. Why it happens?
Outdated smoking prevention among young people has never been effective, because it is based on providing the entire amount of information about the health status of smokers, both active and passive. Few adolescents are interested in health, which will become relevant in the boundless future. In addition, the illusion of a lack of habit lies in the fact that in fact tobacco smoke does not cause any pleasant sensations. It does not have a pleasant taste or smell, does not embellish reality, as alcohol does, does not remove any moral barriers. However, nicotine in tobacco smoke is a drug that causes you to continue smoking.
In many ways, the prevention of smoking consists in working with the socialization of adolescents, because it is an attempt to become more socially adapted that pushes them to a bad habit. The unconscious tendency to imitate makes adolescents to adopt the habits of the social group to which they want to be involved, and if smoking is accepted in this social group, then the probability of the first cigarette approaches one hundred percent. However, good results are obtained by independent smoking prevention, an essay on a given topic, practical work, or even research. Perhaps the study is not only social or biological, but also economic. Many teenagers after independent work seriously thought about the inappropriate use of smoking.
It is extremely important to understand that cigarettes, cigarillos, cigars, hookah, pipe and any other way of extracting and using nicotine is one and the same habit, simply dressed in a different shape. Prevention of smoking implies a complete rejection of tobacco at the level of internal conviction, in this case it can be considered that prevention has paid off, and the person is actually protected from the negative consequences that he could have acquired. It is noticed that simply knowing the consequences practically does not affect smokers, on each pack these negative consequences are written in large print, but since at least one inscription caused tobacco abandonment?
By giving up smoking, we save time, effort, health and money. Perhaps it is difficult to come up with a more profitable venture than a complete cessation of smoking in any form. Given that cigarette prices are growing steadily, we can deduce the approximate average annual cost of a targeted and systematic deterioration of their own health. The vast majority of former smokers note that they have become happier and better off - spending on cigarettes and related medicines is being stopped to help alleviate smoking problems.