Americans are suffering and are being plagued by addiction, bad habits. Smoking cigarettes is the classical example of these addictive habits. Every stick of tobacco robs us of our health, slicing off years of life, draining our wallets, inspiring an addiction that only adds fire to to the flames. It is without question the majority of Americans are aware of the negative consequences of smoking. Despite this, there is an estimate of upwards of 36.5 million Americans who smoke regularly. According to the CDC, of the 36.5 million Americans who smoke, approximately 16.5 americans have incurred a smoking-related disease.
Smokers whether they realize it or not can, create a dependence to smoking. Fortunately, the urge to smoke can be tamed. A combination of proper goal-setting, supplemented with a deterrence to smoke and limiting accessibility to cigarettes can help Americans improve their health,
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is known that cigarettes contain nicotine, which is highly addictive. Many people use smoking as a way to escape the stress of their everyday lives The nicotine elevates your mood and your heart rate, causing relaxation and relief of stress. However, this is temporary, as your body craves the high once again as the cigarette leaves your body. While the addiction of cigarettes is powerful, it can be mediated through a variety of tactics.
Hypothetically let’s say you only smoke at the the casino. Perhaps you go to casino and you coincidentally have a cigarette there. Overtime, you develop the habit of smoking while you’re at the casino. Suppose that one time you go without your cigarettes. Once you reach the casino, your body starts to crave the cigarettes even though you don’t have any. During this span, you paired the two unrelated stimuli (cigarette and the casino) through the association. Despite not having any cigarettes, your body began to crave the cigarette, which is the conditioned