The cigarette smoking culture

A large number of theories have been out forward by various scientists through out the world in order to explain the growing number of individuals who take up smoking. To have a complete understanding of this debate, an individual should take into consideration various factors including the history of the smoking practices along with the multitude of roles which smoking plays in the every day life of an individual. The human mind tends to get increasingly dependent on any source that provides even a brief respite from the various stress situations that an individual faces. This dependence on cigarettes and other tobacco products is the major reason for the gaining popularity of cigarettes and all related products. An individual tends to smoke when out for a social gathering. It gives him immense communal and individual pleasure. Smoking has become increasingly common place, and the extent of this can be adjudged by the fact that it is now widely accepted as a part of almost all social gatherings. Individuals to indicate their care free attitude along with increasing optimism also often use cigarettes.

Cigarettes are also often used in the society as a pointer towards the fast paced and the highly modernized life of an individual. They are often used as a symbol of power and masculinity along with dominance. There are various museums that are dedicated to the various changes that have gone through out the world in terms of cigarettes. Some of the most famous museums are situated in the United Kingdom and Australia. The tobacco industry has grown astonishingly over the past 100 years. The fact that almost a few thousand people take up smoking every day is the living testimony of the fact that the tobacco industry is growing at an increasing rate every year and soon is expected to reach its highest.

Is smoking really that bad?

This is one debate that’s never going to end. As far as the medicinal groups are concerned and of course health officials, they’ll blow their top whenever cigarettes are mentioned. It’s mandatory for cigarette manufacturers to print statutory warnings on cigarette packets regarding the harm cigarettes can cause. However, who is to answer the question regarding how bad it really is, or the larger question is it really bad? In most societies drinking is considered a social practice, but little do they harp on the evils it causes. Drinkers more often than not can display signs of multiple personality disorder after a few drinks and can quite conveniently forget everything when they’re back to their senses. They’d pick a fight, tease people, be really loud, boast and may even cause an accident if behind wheels. Of course there’s all the throwing up, breaking things, causing a mess and regular embarrassment. In comparison, smokers are a peaceful lot. They smoke, stay in their own and don’t trouble people around them.

Another really good thing about smoking is that it helps you relax in many situations. The logic is simple. When in a tense situation, people usually say, sit back, relax and take a deep breath, problem is we know all this but don’t really do so because our nerves are incapable at such intense moment. However taking up a cigarette at such a moment automatically causes you to soothe your nerves and clear your thought process because you inhale slowly, take a deep breath and feel the smoke. The health prospects maybe bad but the god it does at such nervous moments is incomparable. Lighting up a cigarette after your meals ensures that you don’t conveniently jump into bed right after eating which is a very unhealthy practice, causing people to put on weight and of course in hampering with your digestive system which is put to a test.

Smoking stopped by Hypnosis? Nah!

I have heard great stories of hypnosis being successful in doing many surprising things. Things like making the hypnotized person stand on single leg for about an hour – or controlling even the sleep of the hypnotized person! But yesterday one of my friends said that even smoking can be stopped by hypnotism! Well and you can guess what could have happened after that – all of us laughed at him!

I now begin to think whether this is really possible? I mean stopping smoking by hypnotism. Although I feel this is highly impossible I started wondering if this can be real, I started to find out what exactly hypnotism does so that it can even change our habits and even addictions! Hypnotism just puts us in a mental state where we are unconscious. Our brain is not listening to ourselves instead it has now become slave of someone other. The hypnotizer can make the hypnotized person behave the way he wants – until the hypnotized person remains hypnotized! After that the hypnotizer doesn’t have any control over him. Then how can he even control the person after the effect of hypnosis is over? As far as smoking goes, it is an activity for pleasure and relaxation of mind and it may be an addiction for some. When we are back into out normal behavior, that is out from hypnosis then we should feel the normal thirst to smoke the way we usually felt. Hypnosis just can’t change the person permanently! The attachment of smoker to smoking is pretty natural and not forced one and he really enjoys it. How can something stop his natural desires to take into effect even after the effect of hypnosis is over? That’s why I simply believe hypnosis can’t have any effect over smoking. Yes you can make that person not to smoke for the period he is hypnotized, but not after that. Smoking can be stopped by showing good control on self. It’s not that hard and I have some friends who have quit smoking and they are happy about it and I also have friends those who have not tried to quit, they enjoy smoking and they are also quiet happy about it.

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