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After following 1,246 children from school for four years, researchers say they found a pattern of occasional smoking that led to an addiction to snuff smoking a month is enough. A study of snuff consumption among adolescents in the Official Journal steps in nicotine dependence in a group of students in the sixth.

'Over time, then begins to notice that they crave a cigarette. So even when I'm with someone who smokes, you get something in your mind that say it's time to smoke a cigarette .. "When people want a moment and think that to enjoy smoking cigarettes, "says study co-author Dr. Joseph DiFranza, University of Massachusetts Medical Center.

Almost two thirds of people who tested the snuff, said he smoked at least once a month and half said they showed signs of addiction. One third of the study they had inhaled a cigarette.

Now, she says, she smokes seven cigarettes per day and talk about quitting smoking -- when he finished his exams. Do not really herself as being addicted to nicotine, or the boys in the study. It did not take place DiGeronomio used until 18 years and realized that he could buy his first pack of cigarettes legally.

Although it was only lit up once a month. Two years after the study, one third of students who have already flown a cigarette found they had little control over the habit. It is a fairly typical example of how addiction progresses, DiFranza said. He discovered that there was a sequence of symptoms among the sixth graders that have been associated with the frequency with which young people said they smoked.

"What happens is the first time become addicted, a cigarette or cigar per month per week is enough to keep employees satisfied," said DiFranza. "But over time, you have to smoke more often. So people may be motivated by more than a year before they feel the urge to smoke a cigarette every day.."

Some even said they have suffered a premature withdrawal. If difficulty concentrating, are more irritable and had trouble sleeping. The most common symptom reported was a strong desire for a cigarette -- a good indicator, the study said, students could become a daily smoker -- even if the student was only smoke and then monthly.

Meanwhile, the frequency of smoking increases. One day they realize they do not do it without having to buy a pack of cigarettes. They say they are not buying cigarettes, are hooked. Children can burn your friends and cigarettes are not considered addicts.

The study concludes that people should be educated to recognize that this is the beginning of the unit, and the best time to quit. Before this study, DiFranza said, most research does not finish a cigarette from time to time as a sign that the drug was started.

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