Smokers: Stop Being So Mad

I've never smoked a cigarette in my life. From time to time I'll have a cigar, but the next morning, I regret it with that awful taste in my mouth.

When talking with smokers about why is it that they smoke and what benefit it gives them, one of the most common answers is that it relaxes them.

This article talks about a study that found that one solution to get people to stop smoking could be anger management classes.

The study states that when smokers were playing a video game and not wearing a nicotine patch, they were more likely to be aggressive in a task they could do after completing a round of the game compared to when they were wearing a nicotine patch and were less aggressive.

Which I think leads to the question: Are smokers just more angry compared to the rest of the population as a whole or, are non-smokers just finding different ways of releasing the aggression without smoking?

If I had to guess, I'd have to say it's the latter. For smokers, maybe having a cigarette was the first variable that they encountered when they started going through stress as a teen, and have basically just stuck with it. Maybe others that never smoked (but more than likely have gone through just a much stress as the normal smoking population) had other ways of managing that stress and aggression.

Or maybe there is something more to this that smokers in general are just a more aggressive group and their only outlet is a drag (is that term even used anymore?)

Oh, by the way, one activity that is a GREAT stress reliever and aggression killer is exercise...

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