That First Puff Could Be Lethal
Written by Stuart Stevens | Wednesday, 03 October 2007 | There are 0 comments
around 2/3 of these children would end up becoming full on smokers
Apparently the very first puff of a cigarette you ever have can determine whether you become a hardened smoker and smoke for the remainder of your life or not. The new research done by interviewing children noted then when children had their first puff if it brought on an instant feeling of relaxation around 2/3 of these children would end up becoming full on smokers.
The head of the study Dr. Joseph DiFranza who is based that the University of Massachusetts Medical School said that this research adds weight to the hypothesis that dependence and addiction to cigarettes starts with the very first contact with them.
The research was very extensive involving over 200 schoolchildren of an average age of twelve who were recruited from a range of different schools in Massachusetts. They conducted eleven separate twenty minute interviews over a four year period with the children and assessed all of the children for their dependence and addiction on tobacco.
The most statistically significant conclusion of the study without doubt was that the very first cigarette can cause you to become addicted to smoking. Dr. DiFranza said that it was therefore very necessary for parents, teachers and health authorities to warn children not to spark up in the first place as that first cigarette could be extremely bad for their health in the long term.
The results of this study were published in the clinical journal Pediatrics and among other things it was noted that attitudes, beliefs, personality traits, social environment and other factors could also make it more likely for children to smoke.
There is now a huge worldwide market for medications to help people to stop smoking and many smokers say that they did not intend to get addicted to cigarettes but just got into their bad smoking habits from lighting up socially at an early age.
Probably the most effective smoking cessation drug on the market today is Champix which is made by the world’s biggest drug company Pfizer.
