Laser Treatment for Smoking.

xterm wrote"The law alone is not a solution, increase the pack's price to 20,000L.L or even 40,000L.L"

And decrease gasoline prices to 5000 L.L

nablaux wroteSmoking is the worst thing a person can do to himself.

PS: I am a heavy smoker.

I think they are worst things, like cut off your own finger, or smoke Crack or do Heroin... or even worst, but let's keep it there.

Smoking is the worst thing a person can do to himself.

PS: I am a heavy smoker.

Man I really admire you for confessing about it and saying the truth about what you feel as a smoker. I know many of my friends who smoke and are addicted yet they never admit that they wish they could quite, they just say that they can quite whenever they want and just look into their eyes and they are liars. They just don't want to admit that they are addicted.

Anyways,I hope you will be able to quite soon and enjoy a healthy life without being addicted to anything. Have a good day and good luck :)

AymanFarhat wroteThey just don't want to admit that they are addicted.

Addiction is an invention from psychologists. Maybe such a thing doesn't even exist.

the word itself might not exist as a physical object, but the meaning of the word addiction does really exist.
I mean the need of a person for using any kind of drug, alcohol, tobacco, etc. is considered by the medical association as a problem, hence the need for naming it.

I am addicted to caffeine. Everything wrong in my life is because of this addiction.
Is there a psychological problem there?

Again, it is not a psychological problem. It is a hormonal problem which instigates a neurological problem. With time, it might cause a psychological problem if the smoker convinces himself that he cannot survive without smoking. To quit smoking isn't an easy task because your body will be demanding for a certain amount of nicotine. But slowly and steadily you can train your body to adapt and live without nicotine.

Yes, the body can become addicted to a substance. But I think if there is no underlying psychological problem (or social, or whatever), then the body will not become addicted from their own will, and will not stay this way from their own will either.
I don't think that it is human nature to become addicted once they try something, nor not to stop a unhealthy habit such as smoking.
To rephrase, the body can become addicted, but to stay addicted when they have a choice, there has to be some psychological or social or if you prefer non-biological reason.

i dont really think so. there is a whole hormonal process going on inside a persons body once it begins smoking or consuming any drugs,etc. among the changes that take place, there is the evolution or change of the nicotine receivers, which grow bigger (im not really sure about this part) thus needing more and more. when a persons decides not to smoke again, its not like he never smoked, there is no such thing as a fresh beginning. this person will certainly suffer from the consequences of cutting the nicotine flow to their body, now its a part of it. now the problem with quitting any drug is that there is the abstinence syndrome, the person will quickly develop physical responses such as headaches, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain among other symptoms that indicate the need for drugs.
to summarize it all, the body suffers many changes while doing drugs or smoking, etc, so when a person tries to quit, it isn't like the body that started the addiction and will suffer from the absence of its drugs.

Yes you might be right that a non-biological reason will indeed affect a persons will to quit, but it wont do all the job.

What babum said is totally true, except I believe it's not that the nicotine symptoms get bigger, they just grow in number (i.e: more nicotine receptors will be formed in that region of the brain).

@xterm, be patient and don't give up man, it's only temporary. A few years from now you will realize that was one of the bravest and most healthy decision you've ever taken.