SMOKING: Killer more than a Thriller!!
Author: Shaz Qamar
Smoking triggers the urge to smoke more leading to addiction. It is our own actions and psychologies that make us reach for another cigarette in our pocket. If you are angry and frustrated you tend to smoke more, as you feel relaxed. On the contrary some people smoke more when they are excited about something. For most of the smokers it is mandatory to smoke before they get out of their beds and after they finish their meals. Every individual has his own conditions for smoking. Once you fall into the trap it gets difficult to find a way out. It’s a maze wherein you curb your urge at one end but fail to do so at other and the fight to quit smoking starts all over again.
TOBACCO EPIDEMIC DEATH TOLL
100 million dead in the 20th century
Currently 5.4 million deaths every year
Unless urgent action is taken:
By 2030, there will be more than 8 million deaths every year
By 2030, more than 80% of tobacco deaths will be in developing countries
One billion estimated deaths during the 21st century
Why Quit Smoking
Smoking is injurious to health. It shortens your life span. Each cigarette reduces your life by 11 minutes. Now calculate how much time have you already let go off your hands and try to make the best of what is left. Protect your family from secondhand smoke and its ill effects.
Cigarette contents
- NICOTINE--We all know that cigarettes contain nicotine that enters the blood stream and reaches the brain in 10 seconds after it is inhaled.
- CARCINOGENS- causes cancer that leads to multiple growth of cells in major organs of the body.
- CARBON MONOXIDE- enters the blood stream and cause depletion of oxygen in red blood cells.
Ill effects of smoking
- Bad breath
- High blood pressure- nicotine and carbon monoxide mix in the blood stream and cause high blood pressure which causes cardiac arrest as oxygen supply to the body parts is cut off.
- Yellow teeth
- Yellow nails
- Retardation of growth.
- Various cancers are linked to smoking- lung cancer being the most common, cancer of larynx, throat, mouth, kidney and pancreas.
- Wrinkles- Smoking causes wrinkles on face thus making you look older than your age.
- It destroys your taste buds.
- Polycythemia- increase in number of red blood cells that causes breathlessness, headaches, fatigue, enlarged liver.
- Reduces immunity
- Body gets prone to cold and cough
- Weight loss
- Peptic ulcers
- Gallstones
- Heartburn
- Nausea
- Headache
- Respiratory problems leading to shortness of breath
- Asthma
- Allergies
- Tuberculosis
- Bodies as well as clothes smell bad.
Ill effects of smoking in Females
- Female infertility- It causes malfunctioning of endocrine.
- Child might be born still/dead at delivery.
- It can lead to miscarriage
- Premature delivery
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Quit smoking using a Mind game
- Medication is not require to quit smoking if you have faith in yourself and if you can follow simple rules when you feel the urge to pick up cigarette. Use your inner strength; listen to your inner voice. Feed “ I want to quit smoking” in your mind. Tell yourself “NOW OR NEVER”.
- Say it to yourself every time you walk in front of the mirror.
- Take a paper and evaluate yourself. Calculate how many times you wanted to avoid a cigarette but could not. This will also give you how strong is your will power.
- Throw away all the ashtrays in your home.
- Note down the situations when you are likely to feel the urge to smoke. Like if smoke while driving, while listening to loud music or after meals.
- Chew a gum or cinnamon till the urge finishes.
- Take a mint candy after meals.
- The most effective method to curb your urge is to take deep breath slowly and exhale with your eyes closed. Think about beautiful things in your life and feel the tension leaving your body through your fingertips and toes. This will bring lot of positive and healthy attitude towards life.
- Throw away any empty cigarette pack left lying in secret corners.
- Take plenty of fluids so that nicotine present in your body is flushed out thus killing the curb to smoke.
- If you do not smoke in front of your parents, go , sit and chat with them till the urge to smoke goes away.
- Read your favorite novel.
- You might gain weight initially while you quit smoking. Watch you diet.
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what is your opinion on smoking pot vs drinking alcohol?
ok now before you all flip out about pot smoking take some things into consideration…. number of alcohol related legal and health problems, death tolls,and then look at the pot side of those and be honest which is really the worse of the two evils???
Well……. First off I think that pot should be legalized! But its not . You don’t get addicted to it and there aren’t any accidents that are caused by it you don’t hear about guys beating up girls because they are high you are mellow and things just roll off of you , But all these things that I mentioned have a different affect if you have a few drinks you will get angry you will drive a car and not be in control you can get addicted to alcohol you can lose everything you acquire in life over it and have to go to AA meetings and possible metal health or spend a long time in jail because one a one night drunken fling so I think that we should go back to Prohibition and make alcohol a big no no I think the world would be a much nicer place if everyone had a buzz the economy would benefit from it by growing, and selling it legally and the earth would be happier cause it would help the ozone grow stronger.
Why do people put so much imphasis on banning ciggerates rather than alcohol?
Sure smoking kills thousands, but alcohol does the same thing, but the death toll is higher than that. How many die from drunk driving accidents? Why dont people try to put a stop to alchol rather than smoking?
They already tried that, actually. Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition. It didn’t work out well at all. Crime increased a ton because everyone was trying to get illegal alcohol. Most people would argue that if the government can take away things they like to do, then the people have no power over the government at all. I don’t smoke, but I don’t think it should be banned, because people should be free to get lung cancer if they want. In my state (I’m not sure about others),helmets are required for motorcyclists, which I think is also dumb, because it’s their life they’re putting in jeopardy, so we shouldn’t worry about it if they don’t want to do it.
Explain why you agree or disagree with the proposals for reducing the death toll (and other harmful effects) o?
Explain why you agree or disagree with the proposals for reducing the death toll (and other harmful effects) of smoking
I agree so health can be improved.
I disagree because the proposals are an infringement on people’s liberties..
what is the world wide death toll for passive smoking?
If second hand smoke was as dangerous as people believe it is, there would be nobody alive in their 50s and 60s.
Would you be against a ban on smoking?
If the U.S. decided the death toll from smoking was too high, and a ban was up for vote, would you vote yes or no?
Yes because to save this planet and the future of our existence, we have to be willing to save ourselves!
I went cold turkey about a month ago and feel amazing!