10 Reasons to Quit Smoking 2 Day
We all know that thousands of people die each year from diseases brought about by smoking and we are all aware that smoking is the culprit in the cause of many cancers. We’ve all been warned about the dangers and we are aware of the thousands of dangerous chemicals in cigarettes, but yet many people continue to smoke. Why do many people still do it? Why can’t they just stop smoking and not continue to put their health and lives at risk?
It’s very easy for non-smokers to judge, ridicule and point the finger. They have no idea how difficult it is for most people to quit smoking. They don’t realise how powerfully addictive the nicotine in cigarettes is. They simply don’t understand.
Yes it’s hard to quit, but you can quit smoking. Many people have quit successfully and never smoke again. Sometimes it’s just a matter of getting past the first few days and then getting past the first few weeks – then it becomes much easier to stay away from them. Sometimes it’s just a matter of finding the right quit smoking technique that works for you.
Here’s 10 Reasons to Quit Smoking
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The Internet: The Latest Form of Addiction?
Internet-Related Addictions
In my travels through cyberspace, I have noticed an increasing number of websites and blogs discussing various forms of Internet-related addictive behavior. In fact, I have recently encountered the following online dependencies: porn, gambling, video games, comment addiction (i.e., checking the comments on one’s blog), Internet addiction, blog addiction, Technorati addiction, forum addiction, information addiction, MySpace addiction, and addiction to Bloglines.
This inventory is obviously not an official list gathered from the medical or psychological literature. It is interesting to note, however, that Internet users themselves are the ones labeling their online behavior and the online behavior of others as “addictive.”
How Dangerous are Internet Addictions?
While the more “typical addictions” such as alcoholism and drug dependency are more established regarding the various forms of treatment and therapy that are available, employed, and researched, other dependencies, such as the above mentioned Internet-based addictions, are not. The question, however, needs to be asked: how serious are Internet addictions? To help answer this question, consider the following statement made by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine in a recent study on Internet addiction: “The United States could be rife with Internet addicts as clinically ill as alcoholics.”
Addiction Horror Stories
Even though most of the addiction horror stories I have read about pertain to the more “typical” dependencies such as alcoholism, drug addiction, and substance abuse, other Internet-related dependencies such as “game addiction” are starting to share the headlines. For instance, there’s various stories circulating the Internet about teens and young adults who play online video games 18 or more hours per day.
As disconcerting as this is, the most shocking and disturbing Internet-based addiction story I have heard so far is the following. In 2005, a 54-year-old male, unable to take a break from his online world, died from starvation. How is this possible you ask? Easy. For 7 weeks before his death, he posted comments into one forum after another every 30 seconds, while refusing to eat.
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Negative Effects of Smoking
Cigarette smoking is not a good habit, that’s what one can hear even from smokers. Nicotine is addictive, making it difficult to give it up, and ex-smokers usually need a real fit of strong will to stop smoking. Sadly, because giving up smoking requires some strong will on the smoker’s side, many smokers simply do not bother with trying to give up. If they only really knew what is at stake…
First, let’s discuss what you won’t get from smoking. First of all, it is not pleasant. The initial relaxing effects of nicotine wear off soon after you start smoking, leaving you with nothing but an expensive habit. Then, it does not help improve your image. You may feel more adult, but yellow teeth and bad breath make you look sick rather than “macho”.
Smoking Kills. Really
The facts can’t be contested. Every year there are over four hundred thousand casualties of smoking a year in the United States alone. This is almost a hundred times more than died at the WTC attack and ten times more than the US has lost during the 6-year war with terrorism. The moment a smoker lits his or her cigarette, he or she inhales almost five thousand dangerous chemicals. 69 of those compounds are known to be carcinogenic. The risk is practical – over three quarters of lung cancer fatalities in the US is the direct effect of smoking. Read more
