domingo, 6 de febrero de 2011

Oral Presentation

It is about time you publish the writing for your presentation so I read it and approve it. Presentations now should be more an analysis or critique of the issue (finding relevant data and articles and seeing what they are trying to say and why, or what you think or make of them).

sábado, 5 de febrero de 2011

'The Effects of Smoking' (correction 01)

Sure you are aware of the magnitude of troubles and problems cigarettes can cause upon your health. Loved ones have died because of cigarette smoking, so on and so forth. But do you know where tobacco comes from, what substances compose the highly chemically composed smoke or what links the dependency afterwards? The tobacco plant comes from the plant family Solanaceae, which is amongst the gender Nicotiana. There are sixty five species in this gender, from which one named Nicotiana tabacum, has another four varieties; Brasilensis, Havanensis, Virginica and Purpurea; from these variations including, the way they are cultivated, the fermentation process and the industrial fabrication process, depend the different types of commercialized tobaccos. On the other hand the exact composition of tobacco smoke is still an enigma for researchers. It is believed that there are close to 4 000 substances, but at the moment there hasn't been a complete relation between the original components of the plant and of those that are formed or and transformed in the combustion process during the act of smoking. The primary and most studied components of tobacco smoke are; Nicotine, Carbon Monoxide, Tar, Oxidants and Irritants. I will focus only on Nicotine for the moment, being the one who causes the addiction. Once you inhale for the first time on a cigarette, it takes only eight seconds for Nicotine to reach your brain. It also affects the reinforcing processes, so called "reward circuits", influencing your mood and your feeling of pleasure. This is closely linked to the abuse of other substances like cocaine or heroin. When a human being consumes a substance that stimulates this system, increasing their sense of pleasure, it will trigger in the individual the desire of the readministration of the substance; this is the physiological mechanism for the emergence of dependence. So when a smoker tries to quit, he or she will suffer withdrawal symptoms to Nicotine; giving Nicotine the blame for the dependence and the hard times quitters have to deal, or sometimes live, with this harsh addiction.

Review

Sure you are aware of the magnitude of troubles and problems cigarette's(cigarettes) can cause upon your health. (That) loved(Loved) ones have died because of cigarette smoking, so on and so forth. But do you know were(where) tobacco comes from, what substances compose the highly chemically composed smoke or what links the dependency afterwords? The tobacco plant comes from the plant family Solanaceae, which is amongst the gender Nicotiana. There are sixty five species in this gender, from which one named Nicotiana tabacum, has another four varieties; Brasilensis, Havanensis, Virginica and Purpurea; from these variations including, the way they are cultivated, the fermentation process and the industrial fabrication process, depend the different types of commercialized tobaccos. On the other hand the exact composition of tobacco smoke is still an enigma for researchers. It is believed that there are close to 4 000 substances, but at the moment there hasn't been a complete relation between the original components of the plant and of those that are formed or and transformed in the combustion process during the act of smoking. The primary and most studied components of tobacco smoke are; Nicotine, Carbon Monoxide, Tar, Oxidants and Irritants. I will focus only on Nicotine for the moment, being the one who causes the addition(adiction). Once you inhale for the first time on a cigarette it takes only eight seconds for Nicotine to reach your brain. And it affects the reinforcing processes, so called "reward circuits", influencing your mood and your feeling of pleasure. This is closely linked to the abuse of other substances like cocaine or heroin. When a human being consumes a substance that stimulates this system, increasing their sense of pleasure, it will trigger in the individual the desire of the readministration of the substance; this is the physiological mechanism for the emergence of dependence. So when a smoker tries to quit, he or she will suffer withdrawal symptoms to Nicotine; giving Nicotine the blame for the dependence and the hard times quitters have to deal, or sometimes live, with this harsh addiction.

jueves, 3 de febrero de 2011

"The Effects of Smoking"

Sure you are aware of the magnitude of troubles and problems cigarette's can cause upon your health. That loved ones have died because of cigarette smoking, so on and so forth. But do you know were tobacco comes from, what substances compose the highly chemically composed smoke or what links the dependency afterwords? The tobacco plant comes from the plant family Solanaceae, which is amongst the gender Nicotiana. There are sixty five species in this gender, from which one named Nicotiana tabacum, has another four varieties; Brasilensis, Havanensis, Virginica and Purpurea; from these variations including, the way they are cultivated, the fermentation process and the industrial fabrication process, depend the different types of commercialized tobaccos. On the other hand the exact composition of tobacco smoke is still an enigma for researchers. It is believed that there are close to 4 000 substances, but at the moment there hasn't been a complete relation between the original components of the plant and of those that are formed or and transformed in the combustion process during the act of smoking. The primary and most studied components of tobacco smoke are; Nicotine, Carbon Monoxide, Tar, Oxidants and Irritants. I will focus only on Nicotine for the moment, being the one who causes the addition. Once you inhale for the first time on a cigarette it takes only eight seconds for Nicotine to reach your brain. And it affects the reinforcing processes, so called "reward circuits", influencing your mood and your feeling of pleasure. This is closely linked to the abuse of other substances like cocaine or heroin. When a human being consumes a substance that stimulates this system, increasing their sense of pleasure, it will trigger in the individual the desire of the readministration of the substance; this is the physiological mechanism for the emergence of dependence. So when a smoker tries to quit, he or she will suffer withdrawal symptoms to Nicotine; giving Nicotine the blame for the dependence and the hard times quitters have to deal, or sometimes live, with this harsh addiction.