1. Why teens begin using Tobacco Friends Advertising Believe they can quit any time

2. Reasons for Tobacco Use Among Teens Peer Pressure Mom and Dad smoke Look more grown up Look like people on T.V. and in Magazines Chewing to be like favorite baseball player It wasn’t hard to get hooked

3. Tobacco Addiction Addiction – Physical and psychological need for a drug or other substance When users try to quit they go through Withdrawals – unpleasant symptoms that occur when someone stops using an addictive substance Usually become anxious, depressed, irritable and tired

4. Physiological Dependence Type of addiction in which the body itself feels a direct need for a drug Nicotine is the drug in tobacco The user does not feel normal until they have had dose of the drug, but the feeling does not last long User needs it more often to feel its effect

5. Psychological Dependence An addiction in which the mind sends the body the message that it needs more of a substance Created by the pleasurable experience or rewards that smokers associate with smoking Often linked to daily routines – reading paper, having coffee, etc. Some smoker may even develope rituals like talking with an unlit cigarette in their mouth while the are talking before they light it