Made by: Daniel Azimov

Yotam Malka
Shovel Maman
Tomer Meirov
Teacher: Shula Fourier
School: Ort Bialik
Table of Contents

Introduction……………………………………...3

What Is a Smoking Addiction? ………………..4

Why Is Smoking Addictive? ……………...…...7

Is Smoking A Physical Addiction? …............10

Bibliography …..……………………………….12

Reflection …….………………………………..13
Introduction

Smoking is a kind of self destruction. It is very

addictive and dangerous for health. In this
project we will tray to understand and explain
the course to that addiction.

We chose this topic, smoking because we

know that smoking isn't healthy and people
should quit smoking. We want to learn more
about smoking and the problems it causes to
the human body.
We have found the material for the project
mostly in the Internet.
What is smoking Addiction?

Smoking addiction means a person who has

formed an uncontrollable dependence on
cigarettes to the point where stopping smoking
would cause severe emotional, mental, or
physical reactions.

Everyone knows that smoking is harmful and

addictive, but few people realize just how risky
and addictive it is.

Chances are that about one out of three

smokers, who do not stop, will eventually die
because of their smoking. Some will die in
their 40's, others will die later. On average,
they will die 10 to 15 years earlier than they
would have died from other causes.

Most smokers want to stop and do indeed try,

but only one in three succeeds in stopping
permanently before the age of 60. By this time,
much harm may have been done to the body -
some of it irreversible.

• Those who eventually quit smoking usually

try to stop two or three times before
they're successful.
• Only 2.5 percent of smokers successfully
quit each year.

The reason why so many people fail to stop is

because they are addicted. Being addicted
does not mean that you cannot stop - only that
it is likely to be difficult. Anyone can succeed if
he or she goes about it in the right way.

How you stop - and, especially, when you stop

- is a very personal matter. Only you know
what you have to give up, and how the
benefits of smoking can be weighed against
the benefits of stopping. Harassment and
pressure from others who do not understand is
often unhelpful. You will only stop when you
have made a firm decision. When you do
make up your mind, however, you can
succeed, regardless of how addicted you may
be.

If you stop smoking before or during middle

age (age 35 to 50), you will avoid about 90
percent of the lung cancer risk. If you are
currently middle-aged, you are also more likely
to succeed in quitting now than when you were
younger.
Why Is Smoking Addictive?

Nicotine is the drug in tobacco that causes

addiction. It is absorbed and enters the
bloodstream, through the lungs when smoke is
inhaled, and through the lining of the mouth
(buccal mucosa) when tobacco is chewed or
used as oral snuff or for non-inhaled pipe and
cigar smoking. It is also absorbed through the
nose from nasal snuff, which was popular in
the 18th century.

Nicotine is a psychoactive drug with stimulant

effects on the electrical activity of the brain. It
also has calming effects, especially at times of
stress, as well as effects on hormonal and
other systems throughout the body. Although
its subjective effects are less dramatic and
obvious than those of some other addictive
drugs, smoking doses of nicotine causes
activation of "pleasure centers" in the brain (for
example, the mesolimbic dopamine system),
which may explain the pleasure, and
addictiveness of smoking.

Smokers develop tolerance to nicotine and

can take higher doses without feeling sick than
when they first started smoking. Many of the
unpleasant effects of cigarette withdrawal are
due to lack of nicotine and are reversed or
alleviated by nicotine replacement (for
example, nicotine chewing gum or the nicotine
patch).

As with other addictions, it is difficult to give up

smoking, and without help most smokers fail
despite trying many times. Even after stopping
successfully for a while, most relapse within 2
to 3 months. More alarming perhaps than the
strength of the addiction is the ease with which
it develops. Although teenagers often start
smoking for psychosocial reasons, the effects
of nicotine soon gain control.

Studies show that tobacco use usually begins

in early adolescence and those who begin
smoking at an early age are more likely to
develop severe nicotine addiction than those
who start later. Each day, more than 4,800
adolescents smoke their first cigarette, and 42
percent of them go on to become regular
smokers
Is Smoking Physical Addiction?

Smoking is a physical addiction that produces

a "chain reaction" in the body:

• Nicotine acts on receptors normally used

by one of the main neurotransmitters in
the brain and nervous system
(acetylcholine). Neurotransmitters are the
"chemical messengers" released by nerve
cells to communicate with other cells by
altering their electrical activity.
• The body responds to nicotine at these
receptors as if it was the natural
transmitter (acetylcholine) and the activity
and physiological functions of many brain
systems are altered.
• With repeated nicotine dosage the body
adapts to what it regards as extra
acetylcholine in an attempt to restore
 normal function. One way it does this is to
grow more acetylcholine receptors.

Thus nicotine induces structural as well as

functional changes in the brain of smokers.
When nicotine is suddenly withdrawn,
physiological functions in the brain and other
parts of the body are disturbed. This is known as
withdrawal syndrome. It takes time for the body to
readjust to functioning normally without nicotine.
Bibliography

Internet:

http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacc
o/smoking.html

www.quitsmoking.co.il

http://www.reutershealth.com/wellconnected/doc41.
html
Shovel's Reflection

I enjoyed doing the project with my friends.

I specially enjoyed the part of reading about
smoking addiction. Now, I know how you
become cigarette addict.
I wanted to do the project about this subject
because I don’t like smokers. I wanted to know
more about the problems that it caused to our,
body and I think every one that smokes is
stupid because he hurts his body.
When I did the project I learned some new things
that I hadn’t known before.
Now after doing the project, I am 100% sure that I
don’t want to be a smoker, and I don’t want that any
one from my family will get hurt by cigarettes.
Daniel's Reflection

The project about smoking thought me a lot

like about the reasons why people start to
smoking or what the reasons that people are
addicted to smoke.

The most important thing that I have learned is

that smoking is bringing us closer to death
which is why everybody should stop smoking.

I enjoyed working with my friends, but I didn’t

like to argue with Shovel about the design of
the cover.
Yotam's Reflection

Working on this subject was actually interesting but

did not add any new information to my knowledge.
It was still nice to share my knowledge with my
friends.

I learned that smoking is not healthy. Unfortunately,

I have experienced a lot of passive smoking at
home but all my family has stopped.
Tomer's Reflection

I choose writing about cigarette addiction for a few

reasons:
First, I wanted to learn more about this subject and
to enrich my knowledge about the effects of
smoking.
Second, my father is a heavy smoker and I don’t
like it at all.

After doing this project I realized what smoking is,

and who it being addicted.

I enjoyed working with my classmates, when

everybody contributed his knowledge about the
subject.

Smoking is a very serious issue, and we should

made people more aware of the effects and
consequences of smoking.