How to Quit Smoking for Better Health
Author: Peter sams
Effects of smoking
Numerous studies have evaluated the adverse health effects smoking has on the body and the economy. The most serious facts on smoking related health and economic risks are listed below.
· Tobacco is the only product, that when used as intended, damages the body and causes numerous life threatening health ailments.
· Smoking related diseases, such as chronic lung disease and coronary heart disease, result in the deaths of over 400,000 Americans every year.
· Tobacco products contain close to 5,000 different chemicals, of those chemicals 69 are known to cause cancers.
How to Quit Smoking?
1. Deep Breathing Perhaps The Single Most Powerful And Important Technique: Every time you want a cigarette, do the following. Do it three times.
Inhale the deepest lung-full of air you can, and then, very slowly, exhale. Purse your lips so that the air must come out slowly. As you exhale, close your eyes, and let your chin gradually sink over onto your chest. Visualize all the tension leaving your body, slowly draining out of your fingers and toes, just flowing on out.
2.Stay Away From Alcohol, Sugar And Coffee
Do your very best to stay away from alcohol, sugar and coffee the first week or longer, as these tend to stimulate the desire for a cigarette. Avoid fatty foods, as your metabolism will slow down a bit without the nicotine, and you may gain weight even if you eat the same amount as before quitting. So discipline about diet is extra important now. No one ever said acquiring new habits would be easy!
3. Develop strong personal reasons in addition to your health and obligations to others. For example, think of all the time you waste taking cigarette breaks, rushing out to buy a pack, hunting for a light, etc.
4. Begin to condition yourself physically: Start a modest exercise program; drink more fluids; get plenty of rest; and avoid fatigue.
5. Set a target date for quitting - perhaps a special day such as your birthday, your anniversary, or the Great American Smokeout. If you smoke heavily at work, quit during your vacation so that you're already committed to quitting when you return. Make the date sacred, and don't let anything change it. This will make it easy for you to keep track of the day you became a nonsmoker and to celebrate that date every year.
Learn New Skills and Behaviors
Try to distract yourself from urges to smoke. Talk to someone, go for a walk, or get busy with a task.
When you first try to quit, change your routine. Use a different route to work. Drink tea instead of coffee. Eat breakfast in a different place.
Do something to reduce your stress. Take a hot bath, exercise, or read a book.
Plan something enjoyable to do every day.
Drink a lot of water and other fluids.
The surgical approach
Surgery is also an effective trigger to quitting, other research shows. In fact, surgery is often one's best chance to quit smoking for good, according to David Warner of the Mayo Clinic.
Doctors have long known that nonsmokers and recent quitters recover better from surgery than smokers.
Warner's review of research also shows that patients who stop smoking prior to surgery have better success withdrawing from cigarettes.
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Smokers: What is your reason for smoking? Nonsmokers: how do u feel about smokers?
Do you enjoy it? Do you know the adverse effects? Whats good about it? I would like some feedback on a smoker’s perspective.
Nonsmoker: I’m under 18 and already I know that smoking is REALLY BAD!!! I hate it. I know a lot of things by joining after school groups and they teach about in school sometimes. I would never really want to be around someone who smokes, unless they are family or really close friends.
Nicotine, a substance in cigarette smoke, causes vasoconstrition and increases heart rate.?
How do these effects lead to high blood pressure? Why are cigarette smokers more likely to die of cardiovascular diseases than nonsmokers?
Vasoconstriction occurs.
After 20 years of smoking I recently quit. Afterwards, I had to cut my BP medicine in 1/2 because it dropped 30pts.
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Smoking kills your eggs??
But I like it and Im just wanting to know how bad it is hurting us and if/when I need to stop. Thanks
Okay, It is hypothesized that smoking reduces the number of oocytes (eggs) in the ovary as women who smoke enter menopause earlier than nonsmokers.WTF does that mean?? I am about to be 21, I smoke cigs, about 8 a day, and I have been told that if I don’t stop I won’t be able to conceive. Is this true? I want to have a baby, but at the same time if i don’t have a cig I go crazy! It is so calming and I have a stressful job and life, but who doesn’t you know. I’m not trying to make excuses for myself and I am aware of the side effects of smoking cigs, but the way I look at it IM GONNA DIE ANYWAY, might as well live my life happy. So anyway, if you smoke cigs, and my bf and I both smoke weed “occasionally” (only at parties and stuff like that) How bad does it hurt our chances? We can quit the pot at anytime. If its hurting us. I just wanted to know how BAD it is hurting us. Has anyone gotten preggo, or known a couple that got preggo, when both partners smoked?? Please help and for the non-smokers be considerate with the comments okay I know there are people out there that absolutely HATE cigs! Trust me I use to be one of them.
hi there, i used to suffer from the same “disease”, if i didn’t smoke i would go mad, when ur life style is stressful u just wnt to get rid of it some hw and fags is d easy way out.
I can tell u that smoking those reduce ur fertility and chances to conceive in the near future.
Weed is even worst then fags cuz it has much more chemical substances in it.
I’m 20 weeks pregnant and both me and my hubby used to smoke fags i stopped and he still smokes but very few a week. i tell u being smoke free is d best, my hands hair and clothes don’t stink anymore nor does my home.
anyway i hope the link below will help.
good luck
Anybody Smoke Cigarettes?
Hi, Im doing a survey on people who smoke cigarettes ages 18 to 25 only . Fill it out please. Thanks
Gender
___Male __Female
At what age did you start smoking?
__Under 13 __13-15 __16-18 __19-21 __Over 21
How many cigarettes do you smoke per day?
__Under 5 __6-10 __11-15 __16-20 __More than a pack
Why do you smoke?
__Stress Reliever __Peer Pressure __Social Smoker __Addicted __Other
How would you rate your knowledge of the harmful effects of smoking?
__Very Low __Low __Moderate __High __Very High
If you had more knowledge on the harmful effects of smoking, how likely would it be for you to continue smoking?
___Very Unlikely __Unlikely __Unsure __Likely __Very Likely
How likely are you to continue smoking if cigarette prices continue to increase?
__ Very Unlikely __Unlikely __Unsure __Likely __Very Likely
How has the increase in cigarette prices effected your daily smoking habits?
__Not Effected __Slightly Effected __Effected __Very Effected __Quit
How considerate are you of nonsmokers around you?
__Very Considerate __Considerate __Slightly Considerate __Not At All
How has advertisement (commercials, posters, etc) of smokeing effected your habit?
__Not effected ____Slight Effected ____Effected ____Very Effected __Quit
research paper based on teen smoking.what do you think?anything need fixing?
The Effects of Adolescent Smoking
Isn’t smoking cool? It’s not like cigarettes kill thousands of people a year and decrease the lifespan of millions of teens across the globe. Right, wrong. The role that tobacco plays in today’s teen culture is complicated, and we need to ask three questions in an attempt to understand this compelling issue: 1) Why are teenagers smoking? 2) What are the long-term and short-term effects of tobacco on physical and mental health? and 3) How can teenagers receive help before reaching the point of addiction? Although many teenagers start smoking for reasons that seem good to them at the time, they don’t realize how much harm smoking can cause to their health and to others around them.
Peer pressure, vulnerability, negative influences and popularity are some of the many reasons why smoking and tobacco have been introduced to teens all over the globe. This statement commences to address our first question: Why are teenagers smoking? According to Mollie Pinker of Teen Ink magazine, “teens often get hooked on cigarettes if their parents, older siblings, or friends smoke, or if their parents simply don’t care […]” (16). Young people have many reasons to take their first puff: to be sociable, act mature, show their independence or enhance their attractiveness. All reasons of which are utilized to impress others and not necessarily benefit themselves. Also, “because cigarettes are so prohibited, it becomes more alluring to teens” (Fibkins 1) making them seem more mature or dangerous because of the fact that they are doing something so forbidden. The habit of smoking may start off with just one cigarette, and then an occasional pack. Soon they realize that they are unable to go without smoking for less than a day. Teens have gotten so used to reaching for a cigarette first thing in the morning, after meals or during any stressful time, “before they know it, they’ve become addicted, both physically and psychologically” (Achot 2). Although the health risks of a smoker may not be a matter of their concern, one must be aware of the affects that come along after the point of addiction occurs.
When teens are pressured to use drugs they usually do not consider about how it will influence their future. But what many of these teens may not be aware of is that these life taking products are a major health risk that can cause “heart disease, emphysema, lung cancer, high blood pressure […] and premature aging” (Buswell 18). Smoking in young people can hamper both the rate of lung growth and the level of maximum lung functioning making it difficult to breath or do any outside activities. Further, smoking hurts young people’s physical performance and endurance. Many teens underestimate the risk of death that comes alongside with smoking. The body doesn’t need tobacco the way it needs food, water, sleep and exercise therefore, is not needed in the everyday life of a teen, young adult or anyone for that matter. According to Barbara Fibkins, the author of “Teens and Smoking Tobacco”, a person who smokes a pack or more of cigarettes a day “will live about seven fewer years than a nonsmoker and that single cigarette will take off about five to twenty minutes off that person’s life” (1). This proves that each time a smoker lights up, they are decreasing their lifespan and limiting their time that can be spent with family or loved ones. Not only is smoking bad for you, but it is also unattractive. “Because smoking restricts blood vessels, it can prevent oxygen and nutrients from getting to the skin” (Hirsch 1) therefore, making smokers to appear pale and unhealthy. Smoking also has the affect of causing hip fractures, bone thinning, yellow teeth and persistent bad breath. Although teens may have in their mind that smoking has that certain appearance that they are looking for, they may want to rethink how the long-term and short-term affects of smoking can influence their further opportunities to succeed in life.
The saying “what they don’t know wont kill them” is obviously just an expression. Cigarette smoking may give a teenager the appearance of looking older but in fact “79 percent of teens don’t know what they are smoking” (Dueffert 1). This proves how unaware teenagers are to the chemicals in cigarettes, therefore making them more prone to health concerns or any smoking related disease. Cigarettes contain “over 4,700 chemicals, and at least 40 of those are known carcinogens” (Heyes 49), which mean they cause cancer. Some of these chemicals include ammonia (toilet cleaner), acetone (nail polish remover), arsenic rat poison, hydrogen cyanide (gas chamber poison), and tar, which deposits itself in the smokers lungs. The worst chemical found in cigarette smoke, however, is nicotine, “one of the most addictive substances known to man” (Pinker 16). Nicotine can both rejuvenate and relax a smoker, depending on how much they smoke. According to Larissa Hirsch of kidshealth.o
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