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Tobacco Dependence
Preventive & Public Health · Mental Health
Moderate
Severity
Very common — tobacco use affects over a billion people worldwide
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Preventive & Public Health
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Tobacco dependence develops primarily due to nicotine's powerful effect on the brain's dopamine-driven reward system
- 2which reinforces continued use and creates a physical dependence that produces uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms when tobacco use stops. Psychological and social factors
- 3including stress
- 4habit formation
- 5peer influence
- 6and using tobacco as a coping mechanism
- 7further reinforce the addictive pattern. Genetic factors are also believed to influence individual susceptibility to nicotine addiction and the difficulty experienced when attempting to quit.
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