Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 8 Week 3: Smoking Kills || @sikan-eyen
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The Federal Ministry of Health warns that smokers are liable to die young.
Tobacco has been in existence in the world for over 2,000 years.
During special events then, tobacco was usually chewed or smoked. It was also greatly used in the medical field to help wounded patients relax, untill it began to be abused • • •
Reports from the World Health Organization (WHO) has it that around 8 million people die every year from smoking.
It might amuse you to know that about 7 million of these deaths occurred as a result of the direct use of tobacco while the remaining portion of 1 million were second-hand smokers, yes!
Staying around people who smoke or being in places where smoking is done frequently puts you at risk too because it makes you as good as a smoker equally!
All forms of smoking and exposure to smoking (as in a second-hand smoker) are harmful, IT KILLS.
Smoking is lethal, but before it even kills you, you will go through some of the heaviest health problems. Smoking overtime could lead to diseases such as:
Lung cancer
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Heart disease
Stroke
Asthma
Reproductive effects
Diabetes
Eye disease
There are other several long-term effects of smoking, hence smoking kills.
From the bedrock, there are a number of reasons why people become addicted to smoking.
From the teenage age, peer pressure tends to set in, and to find closure, these ones begin to smoke likely because their friends or peers are also indulging, encouraging them to smoke and they feel left out, so they indulge too.
Unfortunately, for some kids their parents are smokers. As they grow, they pick up the habit especially when the parents are not home and gradually become addicted as they advance. On this part it is parental influence at work.
Some other people become addicted to smoking as a way to deal with stress.
I am not addicted to smoking but i know of a friend who is. He has been smoking for over 6 years now.
He is now a heavy smoker, and have tried to stop severally due to advice from family and friends, i too did my bit to discourage, preaching of the long term effects and letting him know i understand that the chain is not an easy one and as such cannot be broken in a day. I encouraged him to start the process by reducing the number of times he smoked gradually everyday, that way he would overcome.
He tried but always ended up relapsing. There have been noticed negative changes in his physical and over all wellbeing as an individual.
He has lost so much weight in recent years and carries a sickly look. Blackened chapped lips and flat cheeks.
Firstly, we must accept the truth that breaking an addiction is not an easy thing.
The use of nicotine replacement therapy helps to reduce the craving for nicotine in smoking, this helps little by little to break this gap.
Also, more awareness as this should be made to let people know the adverse effects of smoking to their health, their loved ones around them, and their overall wellbeing, that smoking kills.
There should also be government sponsored programs to encourage and help people who are trying or struggling to quit smoking.
Smokers do not live up to their full potential, as smoking reduce their lifespan by a half, STOP SMOKING TODAY, SMOKING KILLS !
Special mention to @steemithealth, i thereby invite my friends:
Growing in a family where the father is a smoker and the mother a substance abuser can be very bad. Children that grow up in these homes tend to become addicts also, especially smokers. Educating people about the main harm of smoking which includes health risk rather than telling them that smoking kills will be a good addition.
It takes very special grace for children who grew up with smokers not to smoke or engage in substance abuse, it is very rare. About educating on the harmful effects of smoking, i agree with you, but in the end, smoking kills.
Thank you.
The truth is smoking kills, but when you meet people and tell them it kills, the next thing you are told is that they aren't dead yet :) So instead of telling them it kills, it would have been more effective if it was precise like, Smoking causes embolus which leads to Thrombus blocking your heart in the space of few years, or it destroys your liver and can give your children coronary illnesses before they are born or while you are smoking by their side. I can bet the look on their face when they are about to buy a pack of cigarettes and they see this written boldly... Hahaha.
You have shared a great participation. Smoking is very injurious to health it just damage your lungs in long-term use so it's should be avoid specially in young boys. It just kill the young boys health.
There should be certain compain regarding stoppage of the smoking. Thank you for sharing your participation. Best of luck for the contest. I have shared my participation. Visit and share your views.
Not just in young boys my friend, it will shock you the high percentage of girls that indulge in smoking too, shocking but true that its almost equating to the boys, o found out during my voluntary service where the youths were all on ground.
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That's really shocking news for me, girls are also indulging in such activities. Now we need to educate all either boys or girls about smoking side effects as it is destroying their futures.
Well said. Smoking is dangerous to health and smokers are liable to die young. I wish a ban will be placed on the importation of smoke of any kind into Nigeria, it will so help the addiction.
Thank you for sharing your view about smoking.
Thank you too for your valuable input my dear !
Asthma the person can't sleep this much horrible disease this is I heard and I am so much frifghten to hear about that and that's the reason for have 31st may to educate people about the hazard of smoking