Behavioral and Social/Cognitive Approaches to Forming Habits
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Behavioral and Social/Cognitive Approaches to Forming Habits
Behavioral and Social/Cognitive Approaches to Forming Habits
In this paper I have been asked to analyze one of my habits. I have many habits, some habits that I have are destructive and some are not. Some habits would shock people (nothing illegal of course) and some that would make people laugh. One habit that I have I will not discuss due to the sensitivity and nature (like I earlier stated nothing illegal) of the root cause of why I have this habit. I will discuss my habit of why I smoke cigarettes.
To give you a little family history, my mother and step father both smoked when I was a child. I have been surrounded by smokers my entire life. By statistics I am a part of the high percentage of people that end of smoking due to my environment. However, I was completely against smoking my entire life until I was assigned to my unit and saw that they got breaks on an almost hourly basis. The first time I smoked was in 2000; I smoked a cigar in celebration of completing and passing aviation mechanics school with the highest grade in class. To give you an idea of the intense training we receive, normal aviation school is four years long for one aircraft. In the Marine Corps, we get the same exact training, but in one year. I went to school for two aircraft platforms at the same time. After that I was assigned to my unit, I was then introduced into the world of what ordinary people would call hell. No breaks, 15 minute lunches if that, people constantly being yelling at everyone, additional training, a flight schedule to deal with, troubleshooting aircraft that are supposed to be flying, and to top it all off perform maintenance on other aircraft. This just a normal day for everyone, this is what you are introduced into. You can imagine the daily stress that comes with working being in the aviation side of being in the Marine Corps. Not to mention the fact you wake up at 4am to do physical...
Behavioral and Social/Cognitive Approaches to Forming Habits
In this paper I have been asked to analyze one of my habits. I have many habits, some habits that I have are destructive and some are not. Some habits would shock people (nothing illegal of course) and some that would make people laugh. One habit that I have I will not discuss due to the sensitivity and nature (like I earlier stated nothing illegal) of the root cause of why I have this habit. I will discuss my habit of why I smoke cigarettes.
To give you a little family history, my mother and step father both smoked when I was a child. I have been surrounded by smokers my entire life. By statistics I am a part of the high percentage of people that end of smoking due to my environment. However, I was completely against smoking my entire life until I was assigned to my unit and saw that they got breaks on an almost hourly basis. The first time I smoked was in 2000; I smoked a cigar in celebration of completing and passing aviation mechanics school with the highest grade in class. To give you an idea of the intense training we receive, normal aviation school is four years long for one aircraft. In the Marine Corps, we get the same exact training, but in one year. I went to school for two aircraft platforms at the same time. After that I was assigned to my unit, I was then introduced into the world of what ordinary people would call hell. No breaks, 15 minute lunches if that, people constantly being yelling at everyone, additional training, a flight schedule to deal with, troubleshooting aircraft that are supposed to be flying, and to top it all off perform maintenance on other aircraft. This just a normal day for everyone, this is what you are introduced into. You can imagine the daily stress that comes with working being in the aviation side of being in the Marine Corps. Not to mention the fact you wake up at 4am to do physical...