ストレスを消したつもりが ストレス源
喫煙が 実はストレス 発生源 川柳(3)へ戻る 川柳(7)へ戻る
| Smoking a Cause of Stress, Not Relief |
| 長い間、タバコを吸うことは日常生活のストレス解消になると考えられてきました。しかし、新しい研究により、喫煙は現実にストレスを引き起こすことが発見されました。Scotsman3月14日の報道です。
スコットランドにあるDundee大学病理学神経科学教室の研究者は、喫煙が脳内に物理的変化を引き起こし、それにより体内にある天然のストレス解消ホルモンであるセロトニンの伝達が抑制され、その結果、喫煙者ではセロトニンが欠乏し、強いストレスに苦しむことになると述べました。 反タバコ圧力団体であるASHスコットランドの会長Maureen
Mooreさんは、この研究は、喫煙には喫煙者の多くが信じるほど不安を減少させる効果がないことを確認したものであると語りました。 |
| March 22, 2004 Smoking a Cause of Stress, Not Relief People have long viewed smoking a cigarette as relief from the stress of everyday life. But new research finds that cigarettes actually cause stress, the Scotsman reported March 14. According to researchers at Dundee University's division of pathology and neurosciences in Scotland, smoking causes physical changes in the brain that inhibit transmission of serotonin, the body's natural stress-relieving hormone. As a result, smokers become deficient in serotonin and suffer higher levels of stress. Although smokers receive short-term stress relief from nicotine, which increases levels of dopamine, the scientists said the "happy" effect is only temporary. Essentially, the study found, smokers need nicotine to achieve temporary relief from the stress partly caused by smoking itself. The researchers said the study could lead to the development of more effective drugs, such as those that stimulate serotonin production, to help smokers with their addiction. Maureen Moore, chief executive of the anti-smoking pressure group ASH Scotland, said the study's findings are confirmation that smoking is not beneficial in reducing anxiety, as many smokers believe. "Smokers believe that it relieves their stress but in fact this is a misconception," she said. "They are just relieving their nicotine addiction and not their stress." This article is published by Join Together (http://www.jointogether.org) - a national resource for communities working to reduce substance abuse and gunviolence based at the Boston University School of Public Health. This story, and 35,000 more just like it, can be added to your website - free. Build your own JTO Direct Web Plugin today (http://www.jointogether.org/plugins/) or, get the same content via email (http://www.jointogether.org/jtodirect/). Reproduction or distribution of this information is encouraged! |