Smoking Addiction and Interventions for Smoking Cessation
Smoking Addiction and Interventions for Smoking Cessation

Author(s): Tatiana Kimáková, Marwan Issa, Boshra Nasser
Subject(s): Substance abuse and addiction, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: smoking; prevention; health risk;
Summary/Abstract: Smoking can cause various diseases such as cancer, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and other specific outcomes. Many of those diseases can be prevented by avoiding the exposure of both active and passive smoking. The factors that influence people to initiate smoking can be due to personality factors, family and culture, gender, environmental influences and the ease of obtaining cigarettes. Smoking cessation and allowing tobacco use only in special areas can prevent its’ health risks. Analyzing and monitoring the preventions and warnings of consequences of smoking can provide new useful knowledge to the research of issue. In this paper, we present components of tobacco smoke, nicotine and smoking addiction, risk factors of initiation of smoking during adolescence and interventions for smoking cessation and prevention.

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