How to Quit Smoking

How To Quit Smoking

Tamara Harrison

Effective Essay Writing/COM/150

October 25, 2012

Margaret Chaplin

In today’s society I think that it is up to the individual person to want to give up smoking. I have seen and even heard doctor’s instruct patients to quit smoking prescribing them with nicotine gum, nicotine patches, and some people even tried quitting cold turkey. Smoking has several harmful side effects that can harm the body inside causing different types of cancers. In my expository essay I’m going to talk about first, the habits of smoking, secondly, the chemicals involved that make smoking addictive and effects of smoking and lastly, I will talk about smoking and some products that will help you quit.

Smoking is both a psychological habit and a physical addiction (“How to Quit Smoking,” 2012). Smoking is ingrained as a daily ritual because the habit of smoking is centered on the individuals schedule and becomes a psychological habit. Cigarettes provide a temporary high for smokers, making nicotine a craving that their body must have (“How to Quit Smoking,” 2012). An addiction like smoking becomes a psychological habit due to the region of the brain called the insula that is known to play a key role in addictions like smoking (Neegaard,2007). Due to this region of the brain addictions like smoking are harder to part with even though the individual knows the consequences of not stopping this addiction. For examples, smokers face serious health problems such as chronic diseases due to the chemicals within the cigarettes.

Smoking is known to be the deadliest addiction because of the many chemicals that go into making cigarettes. A lot of these chemical that are involved in cigarette production are used in pesticides, insecticides, metals, and gases. Some of these chemicals include Nicotine, Tar, Carbon Monoxide, Acetone, Arsenic, Ammonia, Benzene, Cadmium, and Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) (“Chemicals in Cigarettes”, 2012). Nicotine is highly...