2007-02-14 05:50:21 · 13 answers · asked by jay or 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
It could be both. I'ts an illness cause you have a Obssessive-Compulsive condition and its a sin cause you know that its bad for healdth, why smoke?
2007-02-14 05:58:49 · answer #1 · answered by Ém 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's pretty much an addiction. I read in my Psychology book, that nicotine is an agonist. That is, "a chemical that mimics the action of a neurotransmitter" (Weiten, p79) The neurotransmitter it's mimicking would be Acetylcholine (AcH) which regulates attention, arousal, and memory.
Have you guys seen that comercial, where they talk about the receptors in the brain going crazy because you take away their supply of nicotine? Nicotine mimicks AcH. I think when you have less AcH (maybe a result of smoking itself?), nicotine replaces it, thus making it addictive. Just a thought.
Go to www.thomsonedu.com. From there choose the discipline: Psychology. From there you'll see a list of books (with cover illustrations) in which you will click the source you see below. Once you're there, you will find at the top of the page where you can scroll down to Chapter 3: The Biological Bases of Behavior. That should cover it.
2007-02-14 13:59:31 · answer #2 · answered by Maggie G. 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smoking is a behavioral addiction. It has psychological, physiological components. Illness is a little strong. It doesn't have the components as meth or alcohol addiction because the lack of impairment related to socialization the factors that impact interactions are not pronounced as significantly as they are with booze, meth, cocaine, heroin,. .
Addiction yes. Illness? not really, Sin, that depends on what religion you subscribe too. Sin and guilt are vastly overrated.
Sin? What have you been smoking??
2007-02-14 13:59:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A compulsion is defined as "a strong, usually irresistible impulse to perform an act, esp. one that is irrational or contrary to one's will." I would therefore argue the compulsion to do anything is an illness.
2007-02-14 14:01:18 · answer #4 · answered by Medusa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the Bible, we were bought with a price and should therefore glorify God with our bodies, so anything that is harmful to our bodies like smoking would be considered a sin. It's also an addiction, but it's not fair to treat people who abuse drugs as victims because no one is holding a gun to their heads and forcing them to do it, and you CAN stop harmful addictive behaviors if you want to badly enough.
2007-02-14 14:06:12 · answer #5 · answered by sarge927 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a behavior. It might lead to illness. Sin is a man made construct
2007-02-14 13:58:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is an addiction, so therefore an illness. Only God can tell you that it is a sin.
2007-02-14 13:57:47 · answer #7 · answered by rex_rrracefab 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It could very well be both. There's ways to stop though. I know you're probably at a point where you really don't want to stop, but I would try getting a good support system. Chew gum, and my advice would be just quit cold turkey. It'll be extremely hard... but my boyfriend used to smoke 2 packs a day and then just quit cold turkey and it worked best that way. Good luck!
2007-02-14 13:53:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
well it's never a sin..But it's just an addiction.
2007-02-14 14:03:34 · answer #9 · answered by Art 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is classified as an addiction.
2007-02-14 13:53:40 · answer #10 · answered by Lynnemarie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋