Addiction

First let's first identify an "addiction."

Psychologists define addiction as something that refers to the state of being dependent on something. It could either be psychological or physical, but whatever it is, addiction insinuates a neurotic or persistent urge to repeat everything that caused the person's dependency on something.

Normally, the onset of addiction is triggered by the formation of cravings or desire. When these cravings are answered, another craving would rise with more intensity than the first one. This cycle will go on and on and, without knowing it, you are already an addict.

Smoking and Addiction

This is now the question of the decade: "Why do people get addicted to smoking?" How come experts relate smoking to addiction?

A lot of people are also asking whether cigarette manufacturers include a certain amount of marijuana on it just to trigger addiction to people. Of course, if people get addicted to it, the more their productivity will grow.

Partly, yes, it could be true, but it's hard to presume anything because there are no reports yet as to whether manufacturers really includes marijuana as an additive.

However, there are elements in smoking that really initiates addiction, and that is nicotine. In fact, nicotine is acclaimed as one of the toughest stimulants ever recognized. So, that makes smoking as one of the most common factor that leads to addiction.

Basically, when a person smokes, the nicotine level is directly infused into the brain. This will, in turn, have more direct effects as compared to "intravenous injections." This goes to show why people who smoke contend that they just want to release some tension.

The problem is they don't know that after several tension-free minutes, the anxiety sets back in with greater intensity and demands for more doses of stress-relievers. This is where addiction starts. People who use smoking as an outlet of their anxiety or as a way to release tension are already addicted to it. Little by little, they will continue to use 5 sticks a day, then 10 sticks, and increases by packs each hour. This manifests the person's dependency on the cigarette already. This can be traced to where the addiction starts.