Addiction as A Lifestyle

For several decades, wellness issues eat up increased by more than 8.5% each year. According to a recent study conducted by the internality for Disease Control and Prevention, 65% of US adults are either sound or obese. The rate of diabetes are increasing in the United States, with a 27 percent increase seen in the last five years. The tactile sensationed cost of health care as well poses a major sco scabies to the nations economy. However, health problems disregard be prevented to a large extent by controlling peoples lifestyle. Group discussions and conversations may help people to adopt a healthy way of living.Therefore, Cybernetics which is the study of conversation/communication and control/ decree plenty be used to help solve this problems. This study aims at using cybernetics as a model for controlling health problems.AddictionIn demonstrable countries of the world a wish well(p) USA, where the literacy rate is above 95%, people straighten out do that leading a h ealthy lifestyle removes the risk of chronic health issues to a considerable margin.However they most times do not adopt a healthy way of living. Why? Addiction has ruined the healthy life style of people. For mannequin- people may be accustom to sleeping and do not exercise, addicted to eating solid foods with high calories that causes them corpulency and make them prone to heart problems. Addiction is a condition in which a consistent desire/craving to repeat an addicted way exceeds the ability to rationally stop doing so. When the more you have, the more you seem to take aim to achieve the same effect or result. This effect can be displayed as a positive feedback loop where the want continues expounding within the loop.Some backdrop ab pop feedback loops Feedback loops are of two forms negative feedback loop and positive feedback loop. interdict feedback loops strives towards balance and stasis by subtracting error with each cycle. A good example of negative feedback loo p is homeostasis, the bodys dodging for going itself chemically and temperature balanced. Positive feedback loops, by comparison, add the variations of each cycle. As a result they can sire potentially dangerous as their effect mount with each event. Hypothermia, shock, heat hyperpyrexia are examples of positive feedback.Figure-1 models dependency (nicotine addiction) as a positive feedback. The desire for sess continues to increase in the loop for achieving the same level of satisfaction.The commencement day, bobtail needs to smoke once and get satisfied. The second day, he needs to smoke twice to get the same level of satisfaction. Gradually, his cravings and urge to smoke increases along with the frequency.Controlling the Uncontrollable(addiction)The graph above (Figure-1) indicates how the addiction continue to expand in a positive feedback loop. Also, Batesons examination of alcohol addiction contended that the precise attempt to regain discretion, to be a commander of ones own spirit, added to the heightening of the alcoholism.More all over, the Twelve Step Program of Alcoholics Anonymous-which has been effectively adjusted to a huge number of addictive practices, offers recuperation by surrendering that is, by filet to deliberately try to stop the addiction. Subsequently, the soul who is addicted does not have an essential variety to control addiction.At the point when Addiction becomes uncontrollable, how can it be controlled? Ludwigs research on Alcoholics promontory demonstrates that developing the right mind frame (sufficient inspiration) for sobriety improves the probability that an individualistic can figure out how to resist his addiction .Sufficient inspiration or adequate motivation can solve the puzzle of addiction as an uncontrollable event. The diagram on a lower floor demonstrates the cybernetic approach to deal with controlling health issues by shake up individuals to follow a sound way of life (work out, yoga, healthy food an d so on.), that is abstaining from an unhealthy way of life. Reward/Incentive SystemPeople have motley needs including monetary needs, physiological needs, safety needs and esteem needs. An individual can be do for performing an activity using strait-laced incentives which may help in fulfilling some of his needs.A reward schema could be a web application like Weight Watchers or an organization such as a health club. Below is a model of an incentive system used in motivating a person to exercise regularly. The model as well as shows that the system can keep refining or modifying the incentive system to make sure that the substance abuser is always motivated.Group Affiliation/FriendsGroups, friends and circle of relatives assist in controlling addictions and rule the manner people live.People develop deposit, care and similarity in a group that offer intellectual strength for controlling their cravings. It has to boot been proved that the group association programs offer long- term remedy for addiction in comparison to short-term remedy provided through medication therapy. Self-assist programs like Alcoholics anonymous, rational healing or women for Sobriety, assist in gaining control over addiction through assisting the affected person to integrate into a self-assist group.TrustTrust is a system- preserved concept and that is a constantly evolving state of information acquisition, processing and feedback. Figure-4 demonstrates the system model of trust surrounded by two actors (trustor and legal guardian). The trustor continually accesses the behavior of the trustee against his intellectual model of trustworthiness, which results in increased trust if the behavior matches with his mental model otherwise decreased trust.Trustworthiness relies on three variables which relate to perception about the person to be relied on competence, integrity and benevolence. Competence is the perceived potential of the trustee, as measured through indicators which i ncludes training or credentials, experience, and reliable past performance. Integrity is the degree to which the trustee is considered to perform with honesty, fairness, and consistency of actions and words. Benevolence concerns the extent to which the trustee demonstrates care and consideration for people he or she interacts directly or indirectly.In addition to the above-recognized antecedent variables, trust also relies on the context within which the trustor and trustee are embedded. It could affect the extent to which the trustee is rated on antecedent variables particularly competence. For instance, a person may be perceived as efficient in one context but no longer in another. Furthermore, it is essential to differentiate surrounded by Interactions among unfamiliar others and ongoing interactions among familiar others for trust.In a social system, trust could be unidirectional or bi-directional. Also, trust may be commutative.After the developement of trust, the trustor ( Alice) feels confident and becomes willing to take actions based on the suggestions, actions and decisions of the trustee ( bobsleigh) to an extent proportional to the trust level in the trustee. straight, when Bob says that he controlled his blood sugar level by following the recipes from the diabetic cook-book, Alice feels confident the same recipes in the diabetic cook-book works and she is now motivated to follow them too. It also gives her a social proof of the reliability of the recipes from the diabetic cook-book. Figure-6 is the conversation model of this trust and social proof scenario between Alice and Bob.CareCare is also a continously evolving state of information aquisition, processing and feedback.Similarity, trust, understanding and reciprocity make the important variables.It is also dependent on context and familiarity/relationship between individuals. Below is a figure which shows a model of care between Alice and Bob and how care helps them for abstinence. Bobs be havior is matched to Alices mental model of a person she would like to care for. If there is a positive match,then the care for Bob increases otherwise it decreases. When there is a match, she cares about what Bobs expectations are from her. She feels a superstar of responsibility/accountability for Bobs expectations because she does not want to disappoint him. Similarly, Bob also does a behavior assessment of Alice against a mental model of a person she would like to care for. Its also important to note that both(prenominal) may have different perceptions or mental models of the persons they may like to care for. Also, care may be unidirectional as well. Now when Bob makes a suggestion to Alice about losing saddle, she feels responsible/ accountable for losing weight as she cares about Bob. Similarly, Bob feels responsible/accountable for not smoking when Alice asks him to quit smoking.