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Hooked from the First Cigarette
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, April 24, 2008.
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Research on cigarette addiction has long held that it takes years to develop the nicotine habit. But new research indicates that the symptoms of addiction - withdrawal, cravings, and failed attempts at quitting - can appear within the first week of smoking. That's even more cause for tobacco-prevention programs to keep kids from picking up the habit in the first place.
Here in New Hampshire, 20.5 percent of high school students smoke cigarettes. Last year, the state ranked dead last in the country for spending on tobacco prevention programs, with zero dollars spent on prevention, and it looks like New Hampshire will earn that dubious distinction again this year due to budget constraints. It's alarming, given that some scientists have found evidence of changes in the brain of novice smokers after just one dose of nicotine.
Word of Mouth host Virginia Prescott spoke about the research with John Rennie, editor-in-chief of Scientific American, which published the new findings in its May issue.
Read a preview of the Scientific American article "Hooked from the First Cigarette"
(Photo by Juan Jackson)
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Show kids the photo's I have, defenseless monkeys, rabbits, beagles, strapped in restraining devices with bags around their heads, cigarettes hanging out, perhaps that sickness would be enough to compell them to stop. All our human manipulated, manufactured addictions, also cause grave and unfathomable(especially since the media stays at arms length)suffering to animals.
I was approached at school by a classmate who smoked to try one and I declined. My interest had been tested and I decided to try one-well it was love at first puff and now I am over a pack a day with all the cravings. I never thought I would get hooked, but believe me you will. Maybe we are all born to smoke and all it takes is someone to start the interest. One puff and chances are you will become a loyal tobacco customer like me-I can't stop, I've tried to quit but I know that tomorrow I will continue-I can't stop-even if I wanted to.