Health Risks From Smoking
Adam and Eve had taken the risk of eating the forbidden fruit despite the caution from God. Today the society has left to stone unturned to bring the black side of smoking to the notice of the public. But still, people continue to smoke and some even find romanticism behind the skull and Red Cross symbol or the pictures depicting blackened lungs in doctor’s chambers. So, the tradition continues.
Let us see, what a cigarette contains inside the white wrapper.
Tobacco, being the principal component contains Nicotine that hits the brain. It has got 43 carcinogenic substances and more than 4000 chemical substances, out of which some are toxic enough to generate charming effects in the human body. It contains 400 other direct toxins, which are found in commonly used wood varnish and rat poison.
So, just imagine the combined effect!
A cigarette is the root cause of the most dreaded scourge of the century, Lung cancer. The research and Study reveal that about 90% of lung cancers are triggered by smoking. As cigarette affects the central nervous system, so it spells its cast to give birth to cancer in various organs of the body like mouth and lips, pancreas, kidney, stomach, urinary bladder, larynx, nose, throat and the oesophagus.
Leukaemia is caused by smoking
Coughing and sneezing take a turn for the worst due to smoking.
Smoking has been found to trigger off Emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Asthma & Short of breath is enhanced by smoking. Children are very susceptible to Pneumonia when subjected to passive smoke.
Mothers smoking cigarettes during their pregnancy risk chances of miscarriage and even delivering premature babies. It has been studied that smoking during pregnancy results in lesser birth weight for babies.
Smoking has been observed to affect fertility in humans.
Vision is affected by Smoking
Smoking leads to strokes and coronary heart diseases like Heart Attacks.
“Long-term tobacco use can dull a person's thinking ability and bring down IQ, according to a new study conducted by a research team at the University of Michigan” (http://health.indiatimes.com/)
Smoking forms ulcers in several parts of the body, the most common one being peptic ulcers.
Smoking causes burning throats and acidity as it affects the entire metabolic cycle. People after having quit smoking have observed a renewed appetite than their previous stage of smoking.
Smoking may cause the development of large-vessel peripheral vascular diseases and inflammation of veins.
When a woman smokes she becomes more susceptible to breast cancer.
Smoking can lead to Tuberculosis.
Several skin diseases are generated due to smoking.
People smoking for longer periods can gather diseases like Heartburn, High Blood Pressure and Insomnia.
CBN.com (http://www.cbn.com/) reports, “Long before Christopher Columbus first set foot in the New World where the Indians there were growing and smoking tobacco”. This conforms to the habit of smoking even before the dawn of some civilizations. People may have been aware of its pros and cons much later. Science and research have opened the opposite side of the coin in the recent past. The public houses, media and mass communication have been fulfilling their obligations. We don’t expect some radical change in such a long tradition. Obviously, the time has come, when we all need to rethink and moreover we need to handle smoking cessation with a much emotional and professional touch.
Benefits of Quitting Smoking
We are going to furnish some instant benefits of quitting smoking which has been found over years and these data are furnished based on research on people who have quit smoking
The Heart Rate drops just after 20 minutes of quitting smoking
The level of carbon monoxide comes back to normal level after 12 hours of quitting smoking
The Blood circulation improves and the lung function shows a significant improvement after 2 to 3 weeks of quitting smoking
Mostly Smoking gives birth to diseases like coughing which is fuelled by smoking. The severity of Bronchitis enhances due to smoking. Asthma is another disease, which is highly affected by smoking. Even the breathing of a normal person has been observed to be shortened as a result of continuous smoking. It has been observed that it takes 1 to 9 months after quitting smoking to remove these physical disorders. But a significant improvement can be visible.
(All these data has been collected from the website of American Cancer Society)
Withdrawal Symptoms
Smoking means Nicotine which is highly inductive to the body as well as mind just like heroin or cocaine. Nicotine does not only pollute the physical parts of the body but it affects it psychologically as well. So, the mere thought of quitting smoking adversely affects your mind. So one will definitely feel desperate to continue it rather than quit.
The unwanted and unavoidable pressure from friends and colleagues can also not be denied. You make yourself aware of your future if and only if you are determined enough to control yourself from being lured into such a close association. So, we suggest, first of all, you need to be convinced of the reasons for quitting smoking. We must say that the decision to quit as well as sticking to it demands devotion.
The symptoms
You may feel dizziness for the first few days. You will also feel awkward tiredness. This is due to the lack of the particular intake of tobacco at a very specific time of the day.
Mental Depression - as Nicotine has got a charming effect in boosting you up
Impatience and Anger - The effect of Nicotine is NOT limited to the lungs only, it casts its spread over the blood vessels, brain, hormonal system and metabolism. So the effect of withdrawal may cause disharmony in your entire physical system, which puts extra pressure on your mind in this competitive world where stress, strain and stress have become your all-time companions.
Sleeping & Focusing - This is the reaction to certain disorders of your hormonal system. As your mind needs to be at its tune for proper sleep as well as focusing on any job which demands your 100% worth, you feel the loss of harmony
Appetite and Digestion - The physicians have experienced paradoxical results as a change in appetite and digestion after quit smoking. In some cases, the mental tension due to non-smoking a cigarette has been found to cause indigestion. In some other cases, the withdrawal of Nicotine has shown a direct impact on metabolism resulting in an additional appetite for the individual.
The Royal College of Physicians (http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/) in their book, Nicotine Addiction in Britain, strictly denies the psychological effect of Nicotine in human beings. They say, “Demonstration of nicotine addiction and evidence of putative underlying neurobiological mechanisms in animals do not establish conclusively that nicotine has psychological effects in man. Furthermore, much of the evidence on the psychological effects of nicotine in man is derived from studies of smokers, and the question, therefore, arises as to how much any psychological effect of smoking is, in fact, attributable to nicotine”.
How to Stay Quit After Quitting
An indomitable passion has let you take the first step towards quitting. You are one of the luckiest people in the world, who have been able to swim against the current. You have shown a strong determination in yourself among your family and the friend circle, and have become different from the rest of the crowd. When you have been able to take the most important call in your life, is there any way, by which you want to lose that position?
Is anything ever compare to your mental strength? Would you even try to make yourself a laughing stock in front of your near and dear ones? What impression do you carry on to your kids? You suffer from indecision and forgetfulness. Or you may even prove that smoking is so invaluable that nobody can quit. Remember your spouse and children always look up to you.
Finally, if you want to undertake these risks of losing your position in the family as well as society, we have nothing at all to say. However, if you want to stick to the most admirable decision of staying put we can help you to the best of our extent and this chapter will aid you immensely in getting to your cherished yet unorthodox goal.
As your body and mind have been under the spell of Nicotine due to smoking you may be again lured by people and events. However one needs to control these unwanted desires of the mind with an iron hand because one more puff even after years can send you tumbling back to the stage from where you began.
The most important lacuna in today's world is awareness. People are NOT aware of the feelings of their partners during a sexual relationship. Adolescents are NOT aware of the recuperation of watching blue films on their minds. The tracking team is NOT aware of the risks and dangers of an unknown place in an unforeseen environment. The young generation is NOT aware of the scars drug addiction leaves on their mind and bodies. Perhaps you were NOT aware of the effect of smoking when you had taken the first puff. Now you have realized by paying through nose just how harmful smoking is.
As you have already shown the first step towards maturity by quitting, now you must be aware of the probable events that trigger you towards relapse. We may have come up with some generic prevailing concepts or triggering events.
A smoking-prone mind becomes more active when it watches the people around smoking. So, start avoiding the smoking zones. Thanks to the government for directing organizations to keep a separate smoking zone. Start visiting non-smoking restaurants. Drinking supplements smoking – a common smoker's notion, hence you need to chuck off both from your routine agenda for some time till your body, and mind begins to reap the rewards of non-smoking.
The fun is to light a cigarette one needs to use both of his hands specially trained people require only one hand. Why don’t you make your hands busy by holding a rubber and a pencil? Smoking is a highly catchy habit. So, stay away from smoking circles and friends requesting them not to smoke in front of you.
There are some prime times for smoking, like after tea or lunch when you are most vulnerable to provocation. Why don’t you try out techniques to deviate yourself at these points of time in the best of your interest? You may also schedule your work so that you have your hands full after lunch. One can try out toffees or ‘churns to keep occupied.
A lot of dummy cigarettes like Yixing No Smoking Herbal "Cigarettes" have been formulated, which are supposed to be less harmful than a general cigarette and also gives you the aroma of a genuine cigarette. People recommend these at these stages when one has quit smoking. We have never tried to find out about the authenticity of its chemical components or the impact it has on smokers, hence we don’t recommend them.
The logic being simple, when you start on this one, the number could again be at 20 in a span of 5 to 7 years. It’s like going around in circles only having falsely convinced our minds that we are onto a less harmful addiction. To us, A cigarette is A cigarette and even addiction to anything even resembling a cigarette should be strictly forbidden, as our weak mind will again try to look for solace and provide justifications as we succumb to another form of addiction.
You must know that provocations will come and go but stepping into the cravings may raise a fundamental question in you - whether you are a confident person or not.
As nicotine gives you a mental boost, it gradually erodes your level of confidence too. Once you take a decision to quit your confidence level gets a jolt. Often some people succeed in convincing you by telling their own stories, which prompt one to restart smoking after having quit once.
The solace is perhaps that they have started taking puffs from cigarettes with larger filters as advised by some quack advisors as larger filtered cigarettes are wrongly considered less harmful. We feel consumption of cigarettes irrespective of their filter size or number means continuing with the smoking addiction.
There are several treatment procedures for quitting. One of the most natural healing systems is the acupuncture method. It affects your taste buds in such a way that it generates an anti-feeling to smoking. The taste worsens when you give it the first puff after having taken to acupuncture therapy. We hardly recommend you to a doctor for any kind of therapy to ease your life rather we insist you tread the harder way, through your own determination.
We guarantee an endless confidence level if you can pass a few days after having quit without having undergone any medication or treatment. You can prove to yourself that you are in control of your surroundings and passion. As this is very generic advice this will vary from individual to individual depending upon your mental ability. We also tell you to study yourself and decide whether you require any external therapy without ignoring what one’s inner voice has to say.
Even there are medical units like Holistic Healthcare Online, which take care of post quitting effects through alternate medicine methodology. Even you may look for hypnotherapy and Penn therapy to withstand the post quitting effects.
So the challenge becomes more mental. Weak-minded people may start thinking that they have become useless and everything around them has turned dull. Even their desperation may make them feel let down.
So, it’s rather a punishment to take the decision to quit smoking. ‘So, why to stick to it?’, a question that can occur to one and all. ‘Rather, let me not become the butt of laughter and start swimming with the flow again’, another perception that takes you right back. You may also have a feeling like, “just one cigarette, what’s the harm?”
But please remember a decision is much more difficult than justifying at a later point. So, why go back when one has once crossed the most crucial step of abiding by a bold decision. The long term effect of Nicotine may affect your energy level a wee bit, but one has been saved from a lot of near-fatal diseases.
Have you ever considered that dizziness is an after for a very short term? So why don’t you tell yourself, that you have been able to win the battle against dreaded nicotine, which most other people lose? Don’t you find yourself at a different psychological level? Think positive and be positive.
One way to think positive is to calculate the monetary gain. Start calculating, how much have you saved today? Is it $2, then what the figure looks like after 5 days? So, you are saving a lot for your family or kids or at least for your lifestyle. At least you are not burning dollars; rather you are using it for your amusement. So, tell yourself, keep it up! After one year we will have another pleasant tour! $770 is not a joke!
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