It's Time to Give up Smoking!

Author: Ashley Robinson

Whether you are a real smoker or an occasional one, young or old, it\'s never too late to quit, even if you have already tried to several times. Some tricks may come in handy.

Most people who smoke say they would like to quit smoking, but when it comes to actual facts, they give up. Why? The reasons are numerous: they have a hard time learning new habits, they worry about gaining weight, but most of all because at first they might feel bad and experience withdrawals. Like any addiction, nicotine is pretty hard to beat, but not impossible.

Even the authorities are helping: 'European lawmakers are trying to tighten rules governing the multi-billion dollar tobacco market by imposing bigger and bolder warnings on cigarette packs, banning most flavorings like menthol and beefing up regulation of electronic cigarettes', says an ABC News report. Since treatment for smoke-related diseases costs about $34 billion a year and the EU estimates that there are around 700,000 smoking-related deaths annually worldwide, it makes sense to consider quitting smoking.

'We need to stop tobacco companies from targeting young people with an array of gimmicky products and we need to make sure that cigarette packs carry effective warnings', stated Linda McAvan, the Labour MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber, and a spokesperson on tobacco issues for the Parliament\'s Socialist and Democrat group.

So, here are some tips that will help you in the battle against cigarettes.

1. Establish clear objectives

When it comes to quitting a habit, the first thing you need to think about is motivation: why do you want to smoke? Do you have a health problem? Do you have a relative who passed away due to a smoke-related disease and now you\'re scared? Are you spending too much money on cigarettes? Do you want to protect your family\'s health? You need a personal reason and the generic 'it\'s bad for you' will not do the trick.

2. Get help

For some, quitting is easy because they have a strong motivation. But, for others, this process can be really difficult, despite the motivation. Do not be afraid to ask for the support of your family and friends. Ask people who smoke around you not to do that.

3. Find alternative means of relaxation

If you ask a smoker why he smokes, they will likely tell you it helps relieve stress. So, instead of turning to a cigarette when you\'re feeling angry, try to look for alternative means: breathing exercises, relaxing music, or a walk in the park.

4. Discover new activities

If idle hands are the devil\'s playground, then you need to keep yourself busy all the time with challenging activities. Help your partner clean the house, take up a hobby, or join a gym. There are so many things you can do in order to stop thinking about smoking.

5. Spend the money you save

When you realize how much money you can save by quitting this habit and that you can afford to buy something that you have wanted for a long time, you will see it really pays off to quit smoking.

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Smoking out Good Health

"One thousand Americans stop smoking everyday-by dying"

                                                        AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Smoking that mean to say taking or habit of taking cigarette, cigar and other form of tobacco products is a major and recurrent issue in our present World. It  started centuries ago when aborigines of American sub-continent and Australia chewed tobacco. It become worldwide phenomenon after Sir Raleigh introduced it into English Royal court. Subsequently, habit of taking cigarette, cigar and pipe spread with English imperialist conquest around the world.

By 2000,there are about 1.1 billion smokers worldwide and 943 millions are in Developing Countries. Many reasons people give for smoking or given why people smoke range from coping with life pressure, peer pressure, in order  to  forget their problems ,justifying  the belief that everybody is taking it, boredom, curiosity and ignorance among others.But put in another way the addiction from tobacco taking particularly smoking of cigarette is in this pattern. You take one stick and you want to take another,(craving) and when you take another, you want to yet take another. And in this way you are experiencing what  is  scientifically refer to as TOLERANCE,PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPENDENCE.

 So for one reason or the other you light a stick of cigarette and in that combustion you generate 4000 chemical substances, which goes into the system. Chiefly, among them are nicotine, carbon monoxide and tar. The effect boomerang not in a day or two in most cases, it manifest latter in life as cancer of many part of the body most especially lung and upper part of the airway. Other effects are heart diseases, chronic bronchitis(related to the lung) and deleterious effect on pregnancy which range from low birth-weight of the child, spontaneous abortion, premature delivery and showing of physical and mental development in children of mother that smokes. Memory problems are not left out, so also production of abnormal spermatozoa in adult males that smokes.

And these generate a startling statistic-10,000 people die from smoking everyday. Maybe something would kill us, as some people would say.But the poser is that why allow what could be prevented kill us.Which unfortunately is an activity so commonly encouraged by availability of tobacco products and money to push it around the world by rich multinational tobacco companies.

Maybe  let stop and examine what smokers say, particularly nudged on by emerging scientific findings which show that it reduces incidence of Parkinson’s disease and Inflammatory Bowel Disease and minimally in Alzeihmer’s Disease.

Could the benefit ever outweigh the risk,particularly the risk to the smoker and the people around him from second hand smoke.Second hand smoke is significantly injurious to innocent bystanders.A quitter of smoking reduce his risk of smoking-related shortening of life expectancy related disease and lost of man hour from such disease among other things.

A quitting Government is also very important. It is not enough for health authorities world-wide to enforce placing of warning on tobacco pack or advert.More punitive measures have to be taken which goes beyond the aforementioned one and slamming greater tax on tobacco products. Oxford medical companion a medical text summed it well-a cigarette is the only legally  available consumer product which kills people when it is entirely used as intended. 

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