Why do smokers take more slacker rests and get less work done than people who don't smoke?
485394
are you asking why smokers slack and non smokers are hard workers? well how about this... my hubby smokes and i dont... but yet he can work like a horse and i dont even like walking my son all the way to school and back lol
71779
Because by removing nicotine, you've only removed some of the bad stuff.\nAlso people are addicted to nicotine so they only smoke more.
317372
i'm 51 and still "laid back". It is an art. You have to make a list of what needs to be done and check it off as you go. It really does help. And don't smoke anything when you have to get the important stuff done.
474419
I don't think it has anything with "being a smoker".\nI smoke, I throw away my empty trash in garbage cans. I even hang onto the empty package if there's not a garbage cans nearby.\nPeople stereotype smokers with all kinds of crap.
1065140
Simply because of our learning.\nWe could smoke because of we've conditioned ourselves to by thinking for example:\nBy going to the pub, you associate it with relaxing because you are chilled out and so you feel relaxed. One day when you goto the pub, you smoke, which also provides you with relaxation since you are at the pub, however later you associate smoking with relaxing because you think that the smoking originally relaxed you, when as a matter of fact it didnt. \n\nYou could also smoke because of positive reinforcement. Smoking may be reinforced if it is associated with social acceptance. It has been found that teenagers are more likely to smoke if they have friends who smoke, obviously because smoking acts as a reinforcement since social groups may accept you.\n\nLastly, people could also smoke by observing significant others such as the media, parents, brothers or sisters etc. By observing, they learn that this act is 'cool' or accepting or whatever, therefore they start to smoke. \n\nHope it helps you. I just did my psychology exam and it covered that so thought I should share it with you :)
42506
Maybe because the people around you are. I found that I never smoked unless I was in a bar and all the people around me were smoking. After a few drinks I was more apt to bum one off someone.
722582
People like to take the easy way out in life, so they blame their actions on someone else, "The easy way"! People don't like to say "I'm fat because I'm lazy, I smoke because I'm weak minded, I'm poor because I have a 5th grade education, and I can't control my children because I let them back talk me and I'm weak! Grrrrrrrr....
978223
The problem is, the data isn't conclusive. While there are people who have died from lung cancer who never smoked, there are also people who work around smokers all the time (in a bar for example) who are perfectly healthy. So, the question is - were these non-smokers exposed to something else and/or simply, unfortunately, susceptable to developing cancer (because it ran in the family, for example)?
424585
Nonsmokers have some serious issues with "control" when they start talking about not smoking outside. Just walk around the smoker huddled next to the ash can, it's really not that difficult. If he's not huddled next to the ash can do that silly fake cough thing, that will show him. Sigh.
1084828
Nicotine just like alcohol is a drug, a very powerful addicting drug.  It's the addictive powers that keep smokers smoking.  For some people, they feel calmer when they smoke, more relaxed.  For some people, they do it to lose weight, others may do it to be cool.  Others do it because they were bullied into it and others do it because they enjoy smoking.  But the bottom line for all these excuses is they are all addicted to nicotine.\n\nDepending on the willingness of the smoker actually determines if they quit for good or not.  If a smoker is determined to quit for good there are lots of things that person(s) can try with success.  From hypnotherapy to a patch.  But not only is it the willingness to quit important but their belief if the products would work or not for them.  Smokers must look at the possibilities and be more up beat about their process and their future and have a positive attitude as well.  If the smoker says "oh that won't work for me!"  then he or she just sealed his fate by being pessimistic/negative already without even trying the product(s).\n\nSo in essense it isn't that it is hard to invent medications that block the receptors, the problem usually comes from the individual(s) willingness and their belief in themselves to quit.\n\nI hope I was helpful to you!  Have a great evening!
601486
Because adults have more responsibilities than children.  When you get really old, you have less responsibilities and you sleep more.  Interesting.
1010845
Exhaustion.  Some people go around sleep deprived almost all the time.  It catches up with people sometimes in a kind of rote going-through-the-motions state.
506672
Smoking increases the amount of oxygen needed for a specfic task. for example if you run 500 miles your going to need a hell of a lot more oxygen so it takes more energy, and a lot of atheletes don't have that extra energy to spare because they are trying to be the fastest, or run the farthest, you should get the point.
708701
There are a whole bunch of laws that are set by people who don't partake of the activity they wish to regulate.\n\nGet used to the no smoking thing. It's everywhere.
867935
It kills them indirectly.\n\nThe smoking releases a rush of neurotransmitters (the chemicals neurons use to transmit signals to one another) at a much higher rate than normal. \n\nTo keep themselves from being overly stimulated, the neurons let the neurotransmitter receptors on their membranes die off.\n\nAs a person smokes more and more, more and mroe recepts are allowed to die.\n\nWhenever the person is not smoking, the neurotransmitter signals return to normal levels but are not received since the neurons let the receptors die off.\n\nWhen a neuron isn't used enough, the brain pretty much kills it to conserve energy/nutrients for the ones that are used.\n\nThe more you smoke, the more smoke is needed to achieve a high and the more brain cells die afterward.
809012
I am a nonsmoker but I support smoking. Medical tests have shown an increase and that people are more likely but it has not been straight proven. As for the rest it is because we, as Americans, are too concerned with what is trendy. Right now it is trendy not to smoke and to jump on the "let's blame the smokers bandwagon". It's easy.
489453
probably yeah! but it's also because people have changed, people dont walk as much as they used to, people drive everywhere, spend more time in front of the tv rather than out and about.  also we eat alot more shit than we used to. If that many people are getting stoned regulary then i expect they are munching on take aways and chocolate and biscuits and loads of fatty stuff.