Habits That Killing You

By Bikash Paul

In the world, probably, there is no person who would not have a single bad habit in his entire life. Everyone has bad habits of one kind or another. This book, which is designed for a wide range of readers, will tell about the negative consequences of such a lifestyle.

 

There are many habits that we know are bad for us, while there are many that we do not even know are bad but they are evil for our bodies. Here, we have listed such habits that are wreaking havoc on our health. You need to stop following them immediately and make your life more positive, healthier, and happier.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bikash Paul
• Release date: Oct 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215608357

Bikash Paul

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and the only thing you have to offer. Bikash Paul from India is a content writer and digital marketer, also working with My Recharge Ayurveda for several years. I helped people solve their problems. My education qualification is MBA in marketing and an HR minor. Writing books is another profession.

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1. Tobacco smoking

The most common bad habit is smoking. Almost everyone has tried smoking cigarettes at least once in their life. Previously, smoking was predominantly a male addiction, but recently women and even children have become addicted to it.

The fashion for smoking came to us along with Western films and various television programs, where some famous actor, giving an interview, gracefully lit a cigarette. The smoking man has become the standard of masculinity and strength. A smoking woman looks more stylish and fatal. Such thoughts are imposed on us by manufacturers of tobacco products.

If a person did not start smoking in childhood or adolescence, it is unlikely that he will become addicted to this bad habit as an adult.

Tobacco smoking can lead to cancer of the lungs, larynx, tongue, lips, myocardial infarction, atherosclerosis, chronic bronchitis, duodenal ulcer, various heart diseases, in addition, it harms the circulatory system.

As a rule, at first smoking does not bring any harm. Diseases develop gradually, causing more and more damage to the body. A smoker does not notice his illness for a long time, his health deteriorates gradually. The disease is often detected only when it enters an acute stage. Most people can't help.

Reasons for smoking

What are the reasons why people start smoking cigarettes? Children and teenagers are at risk. More than 70% of people who smoke started smoking in their teens. During this period, the body is not yet completely formed and quickly gets used to any innovations. A rare teenager has great willpower and, as a result, cannot quit smoking on his own.

Teenagers start smoking for a variety of reasons. Many do it out of curiosity, but most do it to support their company. If almost all of his friends smoke, it's hard for a teenager to stop smoking. Some want to be like everyone else or are afraid to be known as a black sheep among their peers.

Many teenagers start smoking out of idleness. Free sports and art sections have closed, and there is not enough money for paid ones. The modern teenager is left to himself. It is due to these reasons that with the onset of darkness on the street you can now see crowds of idle teenagers who do not know how and do not know what to do with their leisure time.

Some of them become delinquents, while others begin to destroy themselves by acquiring bad habits. In the modern world, a rare teenager by the age of 13 does not know the taste of alcohol and tobacco.

If parents, one or both, smoke, it is unlikely that their child will grow up as a non-smoker. As you know, parents are an example for their child, and he will do what they do. Therefore, it is sometimes difficult for parents who smoke to explain to their child why they can smoke, but he cannot.

Everett Koop, a leading surgeon from the United States, expressed his opinion that tobacco smoking causes no less harm to the human body than drug use.

Some teenagers perceive a cigarette as an indispensable attribute of adult life. Lighting a cigarette, the child feels that he has matured. This is an erroneous opinion. An adult, precisely because of his age, will never use something to prove to others that he is an adult. But you can’t explain this to teenagers, especially if they constantly hear different hints from their friends: Are you afraid to smoke because you are still small!, What, mom and dad don’t allow smoking? etc.

A person who decides to smoke a cigarette is at great risk. The effect of smoking is to instantly relax and feel short-term euphoria. A person who has not smoked, for example, for half a day, already after the first long-awaited puff experiences, one might say, real happiness.

Pleasant feelings that a person experiences due to smoking a cigarette are located only on the surface. At the bottom of the problem, there are many negative consequences that arise as a result of addiction to this bad habit.

For shy people, a cigarette helps to overcome stiffness and feel more relaxed. Few of them think that self-doubt cannot be overcome with a cigarette. You need to change your own attitude towards yourself, and not reach for another cigarette.

Adults often smoke in order to relieve the stress accumulated during the day. Objectively, the substances found in a cigarette are not able to save a person from a depressed state, depression and bad mood. A visible result occurs if a person believes in it.

In addition, the process of smoking a cigarette is of great importance. If all these substances are simply introduced into the human body, he will not receive the desired calm and euphoria as such. You need the ritual of smoking.

Studies have shown that cigarettes cause more than 1 billion deaths every year.

A glass of ordinary water can give exactly the same result, it is only important to believe that it will help to cope with problems. So why poison your body with harmful carcinogens, if it's just a matter of self-hypnosis. But if you can convince yourself that a cigarette helps relieve stress, then there is no point in believing that it does no harm. Nicotine will destroy the body from the inside, and sooner or later its effects will manifest itself in the form of a dangerous or even incurable disease.

Nicotine addiction

As already mentioned, as a result of tobacco smoking, a real dependence on it arises - first psychological, and then physical.

Psychological dependence is the psychological discomfort that occurs in a person if he does not smoke another cigarette. At this time, it seems to a person that something is missing, he literally does not find a place for himself.

Another manifestation of the psychological dependence on cigarettes is smoking out of necessity, and not at will. For example, most students who smoke every break between classes do not smoke because they want to, but because they have free time and need to do something. At the same time, if students are not allowed to take a break, those of them who have only a psychological dependence can easily do without another dose of nicotine.

Honoré de Balzac wrote about smoking: Tobacco harms the body, destroys the mind, stupefies entire nations.

Many people smoke while talking because they have nowhere to put their hands. By the way, more than half of people who quit smoking complain about this. People whose psychological dependence on cigarettes manifests itself in this way are easily recognizable by their gestures. They cannot stand still, fiddling nervously with buttons or collars, and may constantly put their hands in and out of their pockets.

Also, psychological dependence manifests itself depending on who the smoking person is with at the moment. Being alone at home, he may not smoke at all, but as soon as he gets into the company of smoking people, his hands themselves reach for a cigarette.

After some time, a person becomes physically dependent on cigarettes. It is caused by the nicotine in cigarettes. Physical dependence lies in the fact that the body gradually gets used to nicotine and can no longer do without it for a long time. This kind of dependence sooner or later occurs in all smokers. According to the current opinion, it is easier to quit smoking when the body is not yet dependent on nicotine. In any case, psychological dependence is easier to overcome than physical.

We can talk about physical dependence if a person starts smoking, being outside the company of smoking people, specially takes breaks in school or work to smoke a cigarette, etc. If a person wakes up at night and finds that he has run out of cigarettes, gets dressed and follows them to the nearest store, he has a real physical addiction to nicotine.

Physical addiction makes a person afraid that they will suddenly run out of cigarettes. He buys a new pack when the previous one is only half empty. In such a person, the desire to smoke appears only from one type of cigarette.

Regular intake of nicotine contributes to the emergence of new chemical processes in the body. After a while, a person can no longer do without tobacco. For a long time, nicotine that does not enter the body causes serious inconvenience, up to various ailments.

First, a person feels anxiety and incomprehensible anxiety, then increased salivation begins, or, conversely, saliva is absent. Your head may start to hurt. The state of a person at this moment resembles the withdrawal of a drug addict, only more weakly expressed.

Physical addiction begins very simply. The process of smoking consists in inhaling the smoke resulting from the smoldering of tobacco. Tobacco burns under the influence of oxygen contained in the air.

Along with smoke, various carcinogens, solid particles and liquid droplets enter the lungs, which after a while are absorbed into the blood. Blood, in turn, carries harmful substances throughout the body. Some of the harmful substances remain in the alveoli, or pulmonary vesicles.

Just a couple of minutes after the first puff, nicotine enters the brain cells, and it increases their activity for a while. After that, the blood vessels in the brain begin to expand. At this time, nicotine continues to irritate all the nerve endings that it meets on the way as it spreads throughout the body. It is at this time that the smoker feels a surge of strength and euphoria.

Cigarettes contain various carcinogens (more than 30 types). Translated from Latin, the word cancer means cancer.

After reaching the peak in the body, the reverse process begins. First of all, a gradual narrowing of the blood vessels begins, as a result of which the activity of the brain decreases. During this period, the smoker again begins to feel nicotine hunger and, not being able to fight it, smokes another cigarette. This process can become endless, or rather, continue until the death of the smoker.

In the course of the process described above, a reflex is fixed in a person - after a cigarette, a feeling of relief, joy should come, and mood will improve. Subsequently, he can no longer improve his mood without another dose of nicotine.

After that, a person begins to smoke at the slightest sign of positive emotions. In addition, he tends to attribute the good state of mind to the influence of cigarettes rather than anything else.

It is because of this that almost all smokers consider a smoked cigarette to be a normal end to lunch (breakfast, dinner, etc.). The comfort from the feeling of satiety in this case is also attributed to the action of nicotine.

Cigarettes

The most common way nicotine enters the body is by smoking cigarettes. Many smokers believe that, apart from tobacco leaves, there are no foreign impurities in cigarettes. This is absolutely not true.

The composition of the tobacco mixture for cigarettes includes various chemicals: fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, and pesticides. As you know, when tobacco is burned, smoke is produced. Harmful substances, burning, with smoke enter the lungs of a person. Thus, in the body of a smoker after smoking a cigarette, one can detect such harmful substances as carbon monoxide, ammonia, and carcinogenic hydrocarbons.

Cigarettes are stuffed with crushed tobacco leaves. This plant is native to America and is a relative of potatoes and peppers.

Most of the toxic substances emitted along with smoke contribute to the development of oncological diseases of the lungs, larynx and oral cavity. In the course of various studies, it was revealed that the radioactive element polonium is included in the composition of tobacco smoke. It has the ability to settle in the lungs and destroy the body from the inside. In addition, polonium can penetrate the body through the skin, so it is dangerous not only to smoke yourself, but also to be in a heavily smoky room.

strong cigarettes

Strong cigarettes are distinguished by the content of a large number of different substances in one cigarette. In addition, stronger varieties of tobacco are used to produce strong cigarettes.

Strong cigarettes may or may not have a filter. It is a mistake to think that the