Nicotine Dependence can Lead to Daily Smoking

Quitting is very hard, this know all smokers and even non-smokers. Health officials notified that high school students who smoke cigarettes and try to quit often fail. However, prevention is not enough as many youth continue to develop nicotine dependence.

People who try to smoke even one cigarette become automatically nicotine dependent, despite of course of their relatively short smoking history, found investigators. And nicotine dependence is a substantial and important public health problem.

According to a recent investigation, 60.9 percent of students who ever smoked cigarettes daily tried to quit smoking cigarettes. However, among those who tried to quit, only 12.2 percent were successful.

Researchers also found that the rate of success in kicking the habit did not vary by sex or race, but vary by age. More students in 9th grade were successful at quitting (22.9 percent) than in 10th grade (10.7 percent), 11th grade (8.8 percent) and 12th grade (10.0 percent).

This study shows that the higher success of quitting is among 9th grade students because the lower levels of nicotine dependency or because they have smoked for shorter periods.
These data suggest the importance of targeting young smokers with cessation counseling while their likelihood of success in quitting is greatest.

For to prevent youths from starting to smoke, states establish and sustain comprehensive tobacco control programs that increase excise taxes, promote smoke-free air policies, and conduct media campaigns in conjunction with other community-based interventions, such as tobacco-use prevention programs in schools that include school policy and education components.

And by altering the smoking habits of the young people, we could radically reduce the incidence of smoking-related death and diseases, and the next generation would see nicotine addiction go the way of smallpox and poliomyelitis.