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Monday, April 4, 2011

Smoking

Introduction

An alarming increase of popularity on smoking grabbed the many of the attention among the various people within the community. The health care professionals are promoting the quality of health and wellness but the growing rate of people engaged in smoking doesn’t reflect the effectiveness of the government’s prohibit laws and the encouragement of the health care advocates. In today’s situation, more and more individuals are experiencing the difficulty in breathing and achieving the quality of healthy living because of the impact of smoke and their addiction to the cigarettes and/or tobacco. Even if the government is attempting to minimize the impact of the health issues through the different advertising and limitations on selling the cigarettes, still the demand to the puff remain high and there is a significant increase on the numbers of teenagers involves in the cigar addiction.

The Smoking Addiction

Nicotine is one of the ingredients inside the pulp of tobacco. The same ingredient is attacking the brain of the person most especially the certified smoker. The nicotine, according to the experts, is also same as the heroin or cocaine because there is an addiction and the person can hardly find the way to escape in this kind of action. The mentioned addictive drugs tend to circulate directly to the brain and may create internal casualties. Over time, the effect of the nicotine decreases and if the smoker increases his personal demand on the smoking, there is a great negative impact in achieving the quality health and well-being. In the attempt of the person to break in his smoking addiction and habits, there are obvious symptoms of withdrawal because their bodies, moods, and brain needs to adjust and this withdrawal may take some time before perfecting the strategy in avoiding to smoke again. The common forms of symptoms may be in depression, insomnia, irritability, frustration, anger, anxiety, restlessness, difficulty in focusing on their everyday activities.

Smoking is Dangerous to your Health

Of course, everybody who reads this kind of advertisement understands what it means and the plain message that it brings. But most people doesn’t seem to care to pay attention on that message, indeed continues to patronizing the mint-feeling and circle-shaped of smoke. Noticeably, most of the convenient stores hang this reminder to the people and on the side is the line of various branded cigarettes. Seriously, the smoking really damages the health and the train of diseases will greet the internal organs of the smoker and contributes the failure of each organ to perform well. The most common diseases are the lung cancer or emphysema. Following the list is the heart disease that particularly first infecting the arteries of the heart causing to the blockage of the blood and air and triggers the heart attacks. It is different from the lung cancer and emphysema because there is no specific time on when or where the attack takes place. Unlike the lung cancer, the development of the infection may take some years and be triggered through the difficulty in breathing and can provide privilege to live a day to lie, almost lifeless, in the hospital bed. Most of the deaths among the adults are due to the heart attacks and the risk increases if the smoker did not bid to quit in his addiction. Following the heart attack is stroke, and if the person experienced the heart attack survived, there is a great chance that the body stroke might follow. Remarkably, the number of people having the stoke increases. In the association of the heart attacks and the lung cancer, the medical experts noted that the destruction of the bladder, stomach, pancreas, esophagus, larynx, mouth, and cervix is possible. The smoking clearly causes problems and the smoker should be alarmed if he experienced the increase of the bad cholesterol, blood pressure, chest pain and other related symptoms because the arteries are getting stiffer while other are getting thicker making it possible the clogging of the blood flow.

Conclusion

Make it Quit! The call of the health care professionals to quit the smoking literally means that there is no benefit that a person can gain in his addiction. Although the hard episodes of withdrawal is a great challenge, still many people successfully quit in the chain of smoking. There is no medical prescription that the doctors might give to the people but the only thing that is left for an individual is the willingness and his initiative to quit his bad habits. A person can go to the medical advisors and turn to his family for help because through the aid of other people, the feeling of withdrawal can lessen and the adjustment might be easy.

Sources:

CDC, 2003. Cigarette Smoking and Lung Cancer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epidemiology Program Office Case Studies in Applied Epidemiology No. 731-703 [Online] Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/eis/casestudies/xsmoke.student.731-703.pdf [Accessed 04 March 2010].

HeartPoint Gallery, 1997. Smoking – Getting Quit [Online] Available at: http://www.heartpoint.com/smoking.html [Accessed 04 March 2010].

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