Especially friends influence strongly when starting to smoke. It consists of nicotine dependency, a substance strongly affecting the brains and in addition, a psychological and social dependency developing with the smoking habit. Recent studies have brought new knowledge about the mechanisms that keep up the physiological dependency caused by nicotine. Although in smoking cessation psychological and social factors have an important role, the basic element in the dependency problem seems to be the consequences of nicotine effects in the central nervous system.
Smoking is a habit of whose models are adopted in the environment.
Group pressures and identification problems do not comply only to young people. For instance in work society, when others are smoking, this also influences ones own smoking. When smoking, a person starts to develop various small doings and meeting a smoking friend easily leads to lighting up a cigarette. This social dependency becomes noticeable only in efforts to quit smoking. Calm down and pause a while A smoker has accustomed to attaching cigarettes in situations, in which he is tense and one should calm down ahead of a difficult job and get concentrated.