Why teens begin using Tobacco

1. Why teens begin using Tobacco • Friends • Advertising • Believe they can quit any time

2. Reasons for Tobacco Use Among Teens • Peer Pressure • Mom and Dad smoke • Look more grown up • Look like people on T.V. and in Magazines • Chewing to be like favorite baseball player • It wasn’t hard to get hooked

3. Tobacco Addiction • Addiction – Physical and psychological need for a drug or other substance • When users try to quit they go through • Withdrawals – unpleasant symptoms that occur when someone stops using an addictive substance • Usually become anxious, depressed, irritable and tired

4. Physiological Dependence • Type of addiction in which the body itself feels a direct need for a drug • Nicotine is the drug in tobacco • The user does not feel normal until they have had dose of the drug, but the feeling does not last long • User needs it more often to feel its effect

5. Psychological Dependence • An addiction in which the mind sends the body the message that it needs more of a substance • Created by the pleasurable experience or rewards that smokers associate with smoking • Often linked to daily routines – reading paper, having coffee, etc. • Some smoker may even develope rituals like talking with an unlit cigarette in their mouth while the are talking before they light it