Tobacco addiction (test)

 

Smoking causes an addiction – psychical (rituals connected with the cigarette are constantly repeating, becoming indispensable – the smoker becomes accustomed to cigarette); social (smoking in a peer group, at college, at concerts and music performances, at discotheques) and physical (pleasant feelings after a „drag“ due to dopamine flow within the reward circuit in brain).

 

Do you want to stop smoking? Are you not sure whether you are addicted to tobacco or not? Try the following test:

 

The Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence

 

Questions

Answers

Points

1. How soon after you wake up do you smoke your first cigarette?

Within 5 minutes

6 to 30 minutes

31-60 minutes

After 60 minutes

 

3

2

1

0

 

2. Do you find it difficult to refrain from smoking in places where it is forbidden such as church, the library, or movie theatres?

Yes

No

 

1

0

 

3. Which cigarette would you hate most to give up?

The first one in the morning

All others

 

1

0

 

4. How many cigarettes do you smoke? (20 cigarettes are in a pack)

10 or less

11-20

21-30

31 or more

 

0

1

2

3

 

5. Do you smoke more frequently during the first hours after waking than the rest of the day?

Yes

No

 

1

0

 

6. Do you smoke if you are so ill that you are in bed most of the day?

Yes

No

 

1

0

 

Score:
0-2 Very Low Addiction
3-4 Low Addiction
5 Medium Addiction
6-7 High Addiction
8-10 Very High Addiction