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Cigarette, A Child!

Year 2017, Volume: 11 Issue: 1, 1 - 3, 20.03.2017
https://doi.org/10.21763/tjfmpc.295607

Abstract

Loneliness pushes the person to seek solutions. When smokers are
asked, unfortunately cigarette smoking is regarded as a way to cope with
loneliness. An elderly male patient without children regarded cigarette as his
own child. Therefore, he could not even think of quitting smoking. In resisting
cases, firstly the etiology of smoking addiction should be determined, then
psychotherapeutic support should be provided. 

 

Yalnızlık, kişiyi çözüm yolları aramaya iter. Sigara, maalesef
içicilere sorulduğunda yalnızlıkla başa çıkma yollarından biri olarak
görülmektedir. Çocuğu olmayan yaşlı bir hastamız sigarayı kendi evladı yerine
koymaktadır. Bu yüzden sigarayı bırakmayı henüz düşünmemektedir. Dirençli
vakalarda

önce sigara bağımlılığının etyolojisi saptanmalı, sonra psikoterapi desteği
sağlanmalıdır.

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Year 2017, Volume: 11 Issue: 1, 1 - 3, 20.03.2017
https://doi.org/10.21763/tjfmpc.295607

Abstract

References

  • 1. Russell D, Peplau LA, Cutrona CE. The revised UCLA loneliness scale: concurrent and discriminant validity evidence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1980;39(3):472-480.
  • 2. Cacioppo JT, Cacioppo S, Boomsma DI. Evolutionary mechanisms for loneliness. Cognition and Emotion 2014;28(1):3–21.
  • 3. Christopherson TM, Conner BT. Mediation of late adolescent health-risk behaviors and gender influences. Public Health Nursing 2012;29(6):510–524.
  • 4. Laursen B, Hartl AC. Understanding loneliness during adolescence: developmental changes that increase the risk of perceived social isolation. Journal of Adolescence 2013;36(6):1261–1268.
  • 5. DyalSR, ValenteTW.A systematic review of lonelinessand smoking: small effects, big implications. Subst Use Misuse 2015;50(13):1697-716.
  • 6. Stickley A, Koyanagi A, Roberts B, Richardson E, Abbott P, Tumanov S, et al. Loneliness: its correlates and association with health behaviours and outcomes in nine countries of theformer Soviet Union. PLoS One 4 Jul 2013;8(7):e67978.
  • 7. Mayda AS, Tufan N, Baştaş S. Düzce tıp fakültesi öğrencilerinin sigara konusundaki tutumları ve içme sıklıkları. Kor Hek 2007;6(5):364-370.
  • 8. Seyfikli Z, Gönlügür U, Sümer H, Topçu S. Sivas’ta ev kadınlarında sigara alışkanlıkları. Tüberküloz ve Toraks Dergisi 2001;49(1):37-40.
  • 9. Ahmad MS. Prevalence and attitude of cigarette smoking among Indian expatriates living in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. J Int Oral Health 2015;7(4):18-21.
  • 10. Durualp E, Çiçekoğlu P. Yetiştirme yurduna kalan ergenlerin yalnızlık düzeylerinin internet bağımlılığı ve diğer değişkenler açısından incelenmesi. DEÜ SBE Dergisi 2013;15(1) 29-46.
  • 11. Chou KL, Chi I. Childlessness and psychological well-being in Chinese older adults. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2004;19(5):449–457.
  • 12. Khantzian EJ. The self-medication hypothesis of addictive disorders: focus on heroin and cocaine dependence. The American Journal of Psychiatry 1985;142(11):1259–1264.
  • 13. DeWall CN, Pond RS. Loneliness and smoking: the costs of the desire to reconnect. Self and Identity 2011;10(3):375–385.
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Journal Section Letter to the Editor
Authors

Onur Öztürk

Publication Date March 20, 2017
Submission Date March 1, 2017
Published in Issue Year 2017 Volume: 11 Issue: 1

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Vancouver Öztürk O. Cigarette, A Child!. TJFMPC. 2017;11(1):1-3.

English or Turkish manuscripts from authors with new knowledge to contribute to understanding and improving health and primary care are welcome.