Your Reasons For Smoking and Why Those Aren't Good Reasons

People smoke for many reasons. For young adults, they smoke out of curiosity and peer pressure. Most of the time, they want to look mature and independent, to be like their friends, and to experiment.

The reasons for people to start smoking and the reasons for people to keep smoking are often different. As smokers engage more to the practice of puffing cigarettes, they begin to claim smoking as beneficial to them in many ways. However, these so-called "beneficial" ways that they get from smoking often vary among smokers.

Some people smoke to keep them going energetically. Some smoke just to have something in their mouth. Some smoke to feel relaxed and satisfied. Some smoke to manage negative emotions or to reduce tension. Some smoke due to psychological addiction to smoking while some people smoke as a behavior pattern.

The researchers find the Behavioral System Model of Dorothy E. Johnson as a guide to the study. According to Johnson, each person as a behavioral system is composed of seven subsystems namely ingestive which satisfies appetite; eliminative which excretes body wastes; affiliative which provides survival and security, social inclusion, intimacy, and formation and maintenance of strong social bond; aggressive which protects and preserves self and society within the limits imposed by society; dependence which promotes helping behavior that calls for a nurturing response, approval, attention or recognition, and physical assistance; achievement which attempts to manipulate the environment and master it to some standard of excellence, and sexual which is for procreation and gratification.

In addition, she viewed that each person strives to achieve balance and stability both internally and externally and to function effectively by adjusting and adapting to environmental forces through learned patterns of response.

Furthermore, Johnson believed that the patient strives to become a person whose behavior is commensurate with social demands; who is able to modify his behavior in ways that support biologic imperatives; who is able to benefit to the fullest extent during illness from the health care professional's knowledge and skills; and whose behavior does not give evidence of unnecessary trauma as a consequence of illness.

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