Wed/Oct 01/2025 – 12:22 AM
I showed study New, the daily environment may play a fundamental role in increasing smoking rates or impeding the take -off efforts, as the incentives for the desire to smoke can begin once you leave the house, according to what was published in the New York Post.
Daily shopping and navigation environments enhance the desire to smoke and hinder the attempts to take off
According to the American Cancer Society, smoking is the main cause of preventive deaths in the United States, as it causes the death of one in every five people annually, and is directly related to lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The study conducted by a research team on 273 regular smokers over a period of 14 days, used smart phone applications to track the geographical sites of the participants and measure the extent of their exposure to tobacco sales outlets, and the results showed that the more exposure to tobacco stores, the higher levels of desire to smoke, and the risk of impulsive purchase.
Dr. Tijal Desai, an addiction treatment expert at the Northwail University Hospital, stressed that the matter is related to the Pavlovian response mechanism, as the vision of tobacco products or their ads stimulates nerve circles in the brain, which enhances the desire for smoking and makes it a frequent habit that is difficult to break.
She added that tobacco companies deliberately use this effect by placing advertisements in strategic places such as payment walls in stores.
Desai recommended that awareness of these stimuli should be raised, noting that the patient’s awareness of the source of temptation represents the first step to reduce his effect, and also called for changing the daily routine by avoiding the methods full of tobacco stores, and using quick strategies such as the five -minute base, which helps the smoker to overcome the desire once it is temporarily occupied by walking or any alternative activity.
Despite the efforts to reduce smoking, it is estimated that New York residents alone may spend more than $ 226,000 on tobacco products throughout their lives, while more than 1.2 million people around the world can be rescued in 70 years if a ban on selling cigarettes is imposed for new generations.
