If you are a teen and smoked just one cigarette at the age of 11 you may take up smoking within the next few years again, say a study.
The compulsion to smoke after having tried just one cigarette can lie dormant for more than 3 years, indicating a "sleeper effect", says the study that looked into teenager smoking habits.
The researchers studied almost 6,000 eleven to sixteen year olds, attending 36 representative schools. They found that their salivary nicotine, a biochemical indicator of nicotine intake, was high even after a gap of 3 years or more.
These findings held true irrespective of gender, ethnicity and deprivation, all factors known to influence the likelihood of taking up smoking. Other so called influential factors such as whether the parents smoked or whether the parents smoked or whether the pupil was a rebel also had no bearing on the results.
Just one cigarette could change the reward pathway in the brain, which might then be activated by triggers such as stress, depression or the school environment.
Alternatively, trying out a cigarette might simply break down the social barriers, like fear of adults or other insecurities elated to smoking, that prevents tens from smoking.
welll wat we got here is absolutely out of my hands cause i never polluted my lungs even once so i guess i should maintain this till i die ......... in not poluting my mother nature its like ....... Censored...... ur Mother...
ReplyDeleteSo plz Save my mother nature