The Bulletin of National Defence University of Ukraine

 WHO experts consider smoking «to be a pediatric» disease, and if doctors pay a lot of attention to the prevention of viral infectious diseases, few people talk about the deadly risk of this epidemic. The epidemic is spreading through advertising and propaganda, on which tobacco companies spend huge sums of money. Therefore, an important aspect of our research was the study of psychological characteristics, especially the self-awareness of youth with addictive behavior, which is manifested precisely in tobacco smoking. Addictive behavior of young men is considered as one of the forms of deviant behavior, which is expressed in the desire to move away from reality by changing one's mental state by taking psychoactive substances. The self-awareness of youth with addictive behavior has its own characteristics, and our research is aimed at identifying these features. The lack of special knowledge and skills of a healthy lifestyle, as well as timely socially adaptive behavior strategies in the adult part of the population - parents, teachers - does not allow them to provide effective educational action, psychological and social support. The rapid growth of the number of students with addictive behavior and the high social significance of the problem characterizes the study of this issue as one of the central ones in modern psychological and pedagogical literature, which led to the choice of the topic of the diploma study

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