Contest 🚨: The Effects of Smoking

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Good day steemians it feels good to have you all here today how are you doing I hope all is well and you all are having a nice and wonderful day as for me I'm perfectly fine.

Today I will be participating in an amazing contest organize by @sahmie here in the healthy steem community with the theme "The effects of smoking"

What Do You Know About Smoking? Have You Ever Seen Someone Smoke Or Heard About It?

Basically when it comes to smoking there's absolutely nothing special to know about it other than that it is an unhealthy habit which has to do with the act of smoking cigarettes, cigars or a pipe

It is an unhealthy habit that whose main priority is to cause damage to our respiratory system but yet still most people seems to fall in love with it, such a toxic relationship.

Yes I have definitely seen someone smoke many times in our neighborhood infact to cut it short absolutely every guy in our community are smokers but as for me I know that it is an unhealthy habit so I don't think that I will ever smoke in my life.

Why Do You Think Smoking Is Harmful To Our Health? What Are Some Of The Risks And Dangers Associated With Smoking?

Why I think that smoking is a harmful habit is just very simple, since in my primary school days we have been educated on the dangers involved in smoking and also even on the cigarettes pack the Nigerian federal ministry of health has warn with a writing that "Smokers are liable to die young"

So with all that I am very sure that smoking is definitely very dangerous and harmful to a persons body and some of the dangers associated with smoking are;

• Smoking causes lungs cancer
• Smoking weakened the lungs
• Smoking can also contribute to causing asthma which is as a result of shortness of breath

Can You Think Of Any Reasons Why People Might Start Smoking, Even Though They Know It's Harmful?

Some people just know that smoking is harmful but they chooses not to care about the consequences, and below I will be explaining some of the reasons why most people chooses to start smoking despite knowing about the consequences

The reason why most people chooses to start smoking is sometimes a way of relaxing and easing their busy day, while to most people it is a way of easing their life struggles and a way of coping with their present life burden.

While to some people on the other hand chooses to start smoking due to peer group influence, which is a process whereby if a person start making friends with smokers after a while he would want to try it out and like that he automatically start smoking.

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Do You Know Anyone Who Smokes? How Does Their Smoking Affect Them And Those Around Them?

Yes absolutely I know of a person who smokes and the name of the guy is billy and to make things worse he was my secondary school classmate but due to the fact that he was an orphan he started mingling with guys that thought that smoking is a normal thing then from they he automatically started smoking.

And this smoking has really affected billy but physically and mentally since he doesn't only smoke cigarettes rather he also smokes weed, so the thing has really affected him in a way that when he talks sometimes you will think that he's crazy

Also when ever he comes around you will definitely know from his scent that he is a smoker even when he isn't smoking, also if you look closely when he talks you will notice that the smokes had stain his teeth in a deep brown 🟤 colour which is always very nasty 🤢.

And this one for this that have been smoking for many years in our community you will notice that they have this kind of dry cough 😷 but yet still they still won't stop smoking, Too bad.

What Are Some Strategies Or Ways We Can Encourage People To Quit Smoking Or Prevent Others From Starting?

For an elderly person who is still smoking there's no special way of making them to stop smoking other than showing them more love since some people smoke in other to ease their mind off some things they had pass through.

So at this point it is the duty of the wife of such a person or children to show him more love, care and emotional support as a way of building in him a stat of self-confidence and as a result of that may actually decide to quit smoking.

But generally some of the Strategies ways of encouraging smokers to quit smoking are;

• Through educational enlightenment which involves the teaching of the young ones on the dangers involved in smoking

• Through the organizing of seminars as a way of educating people on the dangers of smoking to the health

• Through making use of the mass media to spread to the general public on the dangers of smoking and how it affects our health.

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