Addiction as A Lifestyle

For several decades, health issues bear increased by more than 8.5% each year. According to a recent mull over conducted by the center for Disease Control and Prevention, 65% of US adults are all overweight or obese. The rate of diabetes are increasing in the united States, with a 27 percent increase seen in the last quintuplet years. The spunky cost of health business organisation also poses a study threat to the nations economy. However, health problems ejectnister be prevented to a large finish by chairling spates lifestyle. Group discussions and conversations may help people to involve a water-loving way of living.Therefore, Cybernetics which is the study of conversation/communication and require/regulation deal be used to help solve this problems. This study aims at utilize cybernetics as a form for exacting health problems. colonyIn developed countries of the world like USA, where the literacy rate is above 95%, people kat once that leading a healthy life style removes the risk of continuing health issues to a considerable margin.However they most times do non adopt a healthy way of living. Why? colony has ruined the healthy life style of people. For example- people may be attached to sleeping and do non exercise, addicted to eating foods with high calories that causes them obesity and make them prone to heart problems. Addiction is a soma in which a consistent desire/craving to repeat an addicted style exceeds the ability to rationally stop doing so. When the more you have, the more you await to need to achieve the same effect or result. This effect can be displayed as a cock received feedback loop where the want breeds expanding inside the loop.Some background about feedback loops Feedback loops are of two forms negative feedback loop and commanding feedback loop.Negative feedback loops strives towards balance and stasis by subtracting error with each cycle. A dependable example of negative feedback loop is homeostasis, the bodys system for keeping itself chemically and temperature balanced. dogmatic feedback loops, by comparison, add the variations of each cycle. As a result they can become potentially dangerous as their effect mount with each event. Hypothermia, shock, heatstroke are examples of positive feedback.Figure-1 models colony (nicotine addiction) as a positive feedback. The desire for smoking continues to increase in the loop for achieving the same level of satisfaction.The first day, move needs to smoke once and get satisfied. The entropy 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 very attempt to regain discretion, to be a commander of ones have spirit, added to the height ening of the alcoholism.Moreover, the Twelve Step Program of Alcoholics Anonymous-which has been effectively modify to a huge number of addictive practices, offers recuperation by surrendering that is, by stopping to deliberately try to stop the addiction. Subsequently, the person 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 mind demonstrates that developing the the right way mind frame (sufficient inspiration) for sobriety improves the probability that an individual can presage out how to resist his addiction .Sufficient inspiration or adequate penury can solve the puzzle of addiction as an uncontrollable event. The diagram beneath demonstrates the cybernetic approach to deal with controlling health issues by inspiring individuals to follow a sound way of life (work out, yoga, healthy food and so on.), that is abstaining from an unhealthy way of life. Reward/Incentive SystemPeople have various needs including monetary needs, physiological needs, safety needs and love needs. An individual can be motivated for performing an activity using proper incentives which may help in fulfilling some of his needs.A give back system could be a web application like load Watchers or an organization such as a health club. on a lower floor is a model of an incentive system used in propel a person to exercise regularly. The model also shows that the system can keep refining or modifying the incentive system to make sure that the user is always motivated.Group Affiliation/FriendsGroups, friends and circle of relatives assist in controlling addictions and regulating the manner people live.People develop trust, caveat and similitude in a group that offer intellectual strength for controlling their cravings. It has additionally been proved that the group association programs offer long- term indemnification for addiction in comparison t o short-term remedy provided through medicinal drug 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-related concept and that is a constantly evolving state of information acquisition, treat and feedback. Figure-4 demonstrates the system model of trust among two actors (trustor and trustee). The trustor continually accesses the demeanor of the trustee against his mental model of trustworthiness, which results in increased trust if the behavior matches with his mental model otherwise decreased trust.Trustworthiness relies on deuce-ace variables which relate to perception about the person to be relied on competence, single and benevolence. Competence is the perceived potential of the trustee, as measured through indicators which includes training or credentials, experience, and reliable past pe rformance. Integrity is the degree to which the trustee is considered to perform with honesty, fairness, and consistency of actions and words. Benevolence concerns the terminus to which the trustee demonstrates care and consideration for people he or she interacts presently or indirectly.In addition to the above-recognized condition variables, trust also relies on the context inside 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 competent in one context but no long in another. Furthermore, it is essential to differentiate between Interactions among un known 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 establish on t he suggestions, actions and decisions of the trustee (Bob) to an extent proportional to the trust level in the trustee. Now, when Bob says that he controlled his blood sugar level by pursuit 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 dependableness 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 reciprocality make the important variables.It is also dependent on context and familiarity/ kin between individuals. Below is a figure which shows a model of care between Alice and Bob and how care helps them for abstinence. Bobs behavior is matched to Alices mental model of a person she would like to care for. If t here 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 sense 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 argumentation that both 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 weight, she feels responsible/ responsible for losing weight as she cares about Bob. Similarly, Bob feels responsible/accountable for not smoking when Alice asks him to quit smoking.