Factors in starting smoking
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Not wanting to feel left out is a particularly important factor in considering what happens to make children start smoking. Many children are conditioned almost from birth to the expectation that they will smoke. There are strong connections between children smoking and the smoking habits of their parents and older brothers and sisters. This is hardly surprising when the strength of family bonds and the desire of small children to be like their elders is taken into consideration. Children in the early years at school usually disapprove of the tobacco habit intensely, just as they usually disapprove of the habit of drinking alcohol. (more…)
I have suffered from migraine all my life. My friend tells me that this is caused by my personality, that i worry too much and should try to be happier. My doctor tells me that the migraines may be caused by a distended blood vessel in my brain. Who do i believe, my friend or my doctor? Physiologically, the distension of a blood vessel in the head is indeed one of the more frequent causes of migraine, and ergot, a drug which causes the blood vessels to constrict, is often used to treat it. Yet statistics reveal that people who suffer from migraine tend to have strong guilt feeling and also strong feelings of insecurity. So both your doctor and your friend may be right. 