This document defines bad habits as behaviors detrimental to physical or mental health often linked to lack of self-control. It lists common bad habits such as nail biting, nose picking, hair pulling, smoking, taking drugs, and drinking alcohol. Smoking is explained as addictive due to nicotine producing pleasing effects in the brain but causing diseases. People take drugs to fit in, relax, relieve boredom, seem grown up, or rebel without realizing drugs become the problem. Drinking alcohol can result in alcoholism where it becomes the most important thing and causes feelings of euphoria but also cancer risk. Nail biting often starts in childhood and continues into adulthood unconsciously, while nose picking is a daily activity for many adolescents.

1. BAD HABITS
MAMERATO LINDA, MARANGONI GIORGIA, OZZI ELEONORA

2. DEFINITION▸ A behaviour regarded as
detrimental to one’s physical or
mental health, which is often linked
to a lack of self-control

3. LIST OF COMMON BAD HABITS
▸ Nail biting
▸ Nose picking
▸ Hair pulling or twirling
▸ Begin a know-it-all
▸ Fidgeting
▸ Lip biting
▸ Smoking
▸ Take drugs
▸ Drinking alcohol

4. SMOKING
▸ Smoking addicted because there is
nicotine. Nicotine dependence
means you can't stop using the
substance.
▸ Nicotine produces physical and
mood-altering effects in your brain
that are temporarily pleasing.
▸ Smoking is a bad habit because
addiction also causes many
diseases: heart attacks and lung
cancer.

5. TAKE DRUGS
▸ People take drugs because they want to
change something about their lives.
▸ Here are some of the reasons young people
have given for taking drugs:
‣ To fit in
‣ To escape or relax
‣ To relieve boredom
‣ To seem grown up
‣ To rebel
‣ To experiment
▸ They think drugs are a solution. But eventually,
the drugs become the problem.

6. DRINKING ALCOHOL
▸ Alcoholism is also known as
alcohol dependence. It occurs
when you drink so much. When
this happens, alcohol becomes
the most important thing in
your life.
▸ Alcohol is both a depressant
and a stimulant, and drinking
can result in feelings of
euphoria, disorientation.
▸ who had as little as one drink a
day boosted their risk of
cancer.

7. NAIL BITING
▸ Biting fingernails is a habit that
often starts in childhood. Nail
biting becomes less common after
age 18, but it can continue into
adulthood. Many adults and
children are often unaware they
are biting their nails because doing
so has become a habit.

8. NOSE PICKING
▸ Nose-picking on the face is probably
one of the most under-researched
activities given the fact that it is an
every day activity for many people.
▸ Adolescents pick their noses about
four times a day.

9. THE END