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Communicating the risks of obesity to South Asian men
Published in Alan White, Maggie Pettifer, Hazardous Waist, 2018
People from black and minority ethnic groups generally show some positive health behaviours, such as lower alcohol consumption and fewer smokers than those in the white community. However, this does not apply to Bangladeshi men or South Asian women, who have high smoking rates and low exercise levels respectively (Lowdell et al., 2000). Traditionally it was assumed that you were from a wealthy family if you smoked. Smoking among these communities is seen more as a social statement than as a bad habit with detrimental effects on health.
“I Am Just an Addict – Can I Trust You? – Can You Trust Me?„
Published in Brown Judith Belle, Challenges and Solutions: Narratives of Patient-Centered Care, 2017
Her long, straggly brown hair framed her pale, pockmarked face, but her eyes were piercing and unrelentless as 52-year-old Dana bluntly stated, “I’ve been doing crack for twenty-two years, and it’s a habit now. It is a hard and bad habit to break.„ Dr. Grant sat quietly and listened.
Behavioral safety analysis
Published in E. Scott Geller, Working Safe, 2017
Before a bad habit can be changed to a good habit, the target behavior must become self-directed. In other words, people need to become aware of their undesirable habit (as in at-risk behavior) before adjustment is possible. Then, if people are motivated to improve (perhaps as a result of an incentive–reward program), their new self-directed behavior can become automatic.
René Cruchet (1875–1959), beyond encephalitis lethargica
Published in Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 2022
It should be noted that Cruchet considered thumb-sucking, rhythmic movement disorder, stuttering, polydipsia, bed-wetting, sleep-walking, and masturbation as “bad habits” in children that needed to be vigorously corrected. His explanation is as follows: Any bad habit, that is, one that damages either the body’s outer conformity or its physical or moral heath, can only be explained in two ways. The first entails excessive emotionalism, by virtue of which an act, once it enters one’s consciousness, tends to be reproduced solely because of the initial first impression it causes. The second explanation lies in an insufficient will, which, in the presence of a sensation experienced normally, is unable to drive it away, even while recognizing it as dangerous. (Cruchet 1911, 66–67)
Substance use, anxiety, and self-management efficacy in HIV-positive individuals: A mediation analysis
Published in Journal of Substance Use, 2018
Wei-Ti Chen, Chengshi Shiu, Joyce P. Yang, Chiang-Shan R. Li, Kerong Wang, Lin Zhang, Jing Zhang, Meijuan Bao, Myo Nyein Aung, Li-Chen Chen, Hongxin Zhao, Hongzhou Lu
In China, people who injected drugs historically have low rates of linkage to HIV care and may face some of the largest barriers to accessing potential lifesaving medications (Bao, Liu, & Lu, 2010). One possible explanation is due to China having some of the world’s harshest drug laws: those caught trafficking large amounts of drugs can face the death penalty, and the police have the authority to mandate casual drug users to compulsory drug rehabilitation centers, which have been described by human rights groups as little more than labor camps (Levin, 2015). In addition, providers seem reluctant to diagnose alcohol and drug use problems, as they may either see it either as a sign of character defect or a bad habit (Sugarman, Rose, & Metzger, 2014). The social stigma of substance abuse remains a major barrier to recognition of the disease (Liao et al., 2014). In addition, physicians receive little or no training in the treatment of substance-use disorders (Powell & Zhang, 2007). Furthermore, substance abuse is culturally conceptualized as “a bad habit” that can be overcome simply by increasing self-control (Sun, Bao, et al., 2014).
A qualitative study of the views about smoking, licensed cessation aids and e-cigarettes in people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders
Published in Journal of Addictive Diseases, 2021
Pasquale Caponnetto, Riccardo Polosa
In participants who were former daily e-cigarette users (n = 10), e-cigarettes were appealing to nine participants, six in the motivated and three in the unmotivated group. Participants who reported that they might be appealing for cessation or reduction believed they were less risky for one’s health and they enabled switching from a “bad habit” to a “good habit.” They reported that the physical and behavioral experience of vaping was similar to smoking in terms of the hand to mouth action and were cheaper. Participants who did not consider e-cigarette use appealing had been influenced by their physician or from negative experiences of others or what they had learned from the TV and media.