QUITTING THE DANGEROUS SMOKE

Lung cancer is one of terminal illnesses many people don’t want to avoid. Even if they knew how dangerous the disease was, still they kept on pampering their personal habit without giving up an inch. Quitting for keep is the hardest. Fighting temptation is a torture. 

There still hope for the hopeless if they are willing to change their habit. Determination, sacrifice and common sense is the secret to be able to succeed.

If you are ready to do the following:

-Write down your reasons for quitting.

-Determine and be consistent when to start your quitting. Your determination to stop will guide you to break your smoking habit.

-To condition your will to quit, to have physical activity for 3 weeks will give you confidence and willing to refuse to the temptation.

-Have your own smoking record. This will record your initiative in the early days of your quitting program.

-Avoid the many triggers around you that will induce you to smoke.

-Reward yourself if you succeeded to control the triggers.

 

-Keep away from your friends that smoke. You can’t defend your urge to smoke.

 -Drink plenty of water or juices. It will alter the urge to get one stick.

-If you failed now, don’t give up. Repeat the process. If you tripped, regain your balance. Fight it the next time.

The withdrawal symptom is only temporary. It may last more or less 2 weeks. Review your position to minimize the effect until you are confident to proceed in your quitting program.  It just normal to relapse but it does not mean you have to continue and surrender your goal.

-Find a task to keep you occupied shifting your mind from the urge to smoke.

-Avoid coffee and other beverages that will induce you to smoke.

-Go with that “don’t smoke”. Make the environment more lively. Strike a conversation that is interesting to lengthen company with other non-smokers.

-Brush your teeth to remove all visible stain from nicotine. This is also to maintain personal hygiene.

-Music will distract you from thinking the unthinkable to smoke. It relaxes your sense of well-being.

-Develop confidence and your desire to stay away with smoke.

-Keep away to the place called the smoking zone. It will only aggravate your problem.

-Keep refresh by taking a bath often. It will help to calm your nerve.

-Initiate to have plenty of rest to relax your mind from the mental pressure.

-Don’t try to tempt yourself even one stick. It may lead to another.

-Chew sugarless gum to keep your mouth occupied.

-Avoid letting your urge or craving for a smoke.

-Practice breathing exercise. It will help to reduce the tension.

-Always think positive in your desire to quit. Keep away from the negative feeling that it can’t be done.

-Developing willpower is the only key to succeed in your goal.

Keeping away from smoke is not an easy task, even how hard it is - what you have been doing is for your own benefit. If you value your life then stop.

Remember that nicotine is the cause of lung cancer. It blocked the airways and destroy the cells. Your cooperation will save you. Don’t allow yourself to care less on your health. We live only once, we have to make life more useful and colorful maintaining healthy life. 

Your family are depending on you. Don’t fail them. You are the only one they’ve got.

Making your choice to slip doesn’t help you instead it worsen your dependence of your dangerous habit of smoking that will destroy you and your family as well.

SMOKE IN YOUR LIFE

It was in research that the shorter the butt of the cigarette delivers tars and nicotine at higher levels. If the butt still longer the cigarette has filters to hold back the release of the harmful chemicals. Each puff of cigarette smoke gives one unit dose of nicotine. This nicotine in the puff passes through the lungs into the blood supply reaches the brain in seven seconds.

Why they smoke? They smoke in order to fulfill the need of the body a certain level of nicotine. Believing that by smoking it calm their nerves and able to think more clearly without realizing there is no real positive advantage of doing smoking.

An estimated 10 puffs a cigarette, 1 pack daily will contains 60,000 nicotine shots to the brain in one year. Further, it shows 4 times much nicotine is excreted when urine is acidic rather than alkaline.

When someone is in the stage of stress in any environment (social atmosphere, at work or at home) smoking occurred repeatedly. The call from peer and social pressures is the reason why smokers find it hard to stop smoking. The nicotine-withdrawal syndrome is the reason of intense craving, depression, difficulty in concentration, irritability, restlessness, tension. Physically, there will be up and down of pulse rate. It also has relation in the presence of sleep disturbance, reduced work performance, constipation and elevated blood pressure. 

A first-time smoker suffered uncomfortable reaction out from nausea and dizziness. Palpitation of the heart occurred, vomiting sometimes present. Repeated smoking from a longer period of time has tolerance from uncomfortable feeling and become more relax by absorbing high quantity of nicotine to the body. It becomes a problem for the users how to stop the urge of puffing a cigarette.

The end result of this habit may lead to many major diseases out from several years of smoking. By ruining the health, lung cancer, emphysema, bronchitis, cardiovascular disease can easy damage the good health condition into a more serious one.

We are very aware that nicotine is harmful substances. It is a poison that started conquering the inner portion of the body. Taking 60 milligrams of smoke is a lethal dose that many of us did not know. Stopping the habit of smoking is a long battle to take. Relaxing control proved futile. The urge to smoke may happen anytime of the day when the craving to puff persist. This enslaving habit may change the attitude, character and ability to reason, because by smoking means disregarding the proper way of maintaining a good mental and physical health in order to have a longer life. He blinded his mind about the dangers of smoking because he gives more importance to supply his body with poison that started controlling his total existence.

There are many ways in conquering smoking habit but doing it against his will is most difficult. Resisting temptation is to control the urge to puff. But control cannot be realized without determination of the users to change his own character and perspective about the importance of being alive.

HOW SAFE IS YOUR HOME

There are many houses located in urban areas with few glass windows. Their windows were tightly closed most of the time to avoid dust to enter inside the house. A heavy curtains were placed to every window to shield it from sunlight. The ventilation was limited inside. They relied to the use of air conditioner. The outside main door were being screened shield. Penetration of fresh air was controlled by the shield.

Although they have houseplants to neutralize the bad odor by enriching the air with oxygen and to absorb carbon dioxide, but it is not enough. How safe is the air we breath inside our house in a tightly sealed condition? Not safe enough because of the presence of toxic pollutants caused by poor ventilation. Smoking is the most dangerous pollutants. Among others are chemical fumes from carpet, upholstery even the cleaning products has toxic pollutants also. In addition were gas ranges, dust, molds, pesticides residue for mosquitoes and other crawling and flying insects that entered inside from half-opened windows and main door. There are some solution to this problem:

-To open up the windows so that fresh air can enter to the house once a day to let stale air and toxic fumes out of the house. It increases the oxygen and decrease the accumulated carbon dioxide when window were opened. Sleep with an open but grilled windows.

-Stop smoking inside the house. If you do, go out from the house and find a place where you can do your smoking hour.

-If you have some empty oil can or kerosene or kerosene containers, placed it away from the house.

-Burning stoves and appliances should be placed near the grilled windows so that any pollutant residue left can go out in the house.

-Schedule cleaning of your air conditioner to remove particles trapped inside it. Clean the filter and air ducts that is very important for long life of the unit.

-Use air freshener to keep inside of the house fresh with sweet-smelling scent.

-It is highly recommended to install exhaust fan. This will be the ready outlet for any stale air and other pollutants.

-Put houseplants in the receiving room, kitchen, individual rooms to absorb carbon dioxide.

-During rainy season, control the use of air conditioner so that any humid air from outside on a smoggy days can not penetrate easily that will result to the presence of molds in wet areas.