ter depth later, can detract from motivation to quit or even further set a smoker in their ways.A great factor in motivation to quit smoking comes from what smoking does to one’s health. Drastic and terrible things like innumerable forms of cancer, heart deasese, stroke. These health risks go beyond what the average person is comfortable with, and from here, there stem problems with helping people quit. The following in an excerpt from one of many websites offering help for smokers.Nicotine and other tobacco toxins cause free radical damage to cells and destroy vitamins and minerals thereby weakening the immune system. Besides nicotine, cigarette smoke contains tar, arsenic, cyanide, DDT, ammonia, carbon monoxide and over 4,700 chemical components including approximately 500 known toxins which include cardiac poisons, cancer causing agents and industrial solvents. Nicotine is one of the most powerful poisons known to mankind. It is widely used as an insecticide.(New Age Concepts Inc., 2001)It is this drastic and almost sickening reports on the effects of smoking that heighten dissonance between the smoker’s desire to quit and the extreme difficulty of quitting. Anyone who has ever smoked more than one to five cigarettes a day can tell you how difficult it is to quit smoking. The addiction to smoking has been likened to that of heroine or alcoholism. However, there are so many factors at play in the addiction to smoking that one must take this statement with a grain of salt. The smoker who hears of the possible dependence nicotine engenders, can make several decisions. First, and least likely, is that they will hate having something controlling their life like that and make and attitudinal and behavioral change. In the other case the interpreter of the aforementioned information may interpret it as a reason not to quit (“well, if it can be harder to quit than heroine, I don’t have much chance in quitti...
