Bad Habits - Smoking

Smoking is probably the most common bad habit for your healthy lifestyle. 5 milion deaths is cause by smoking every year. (source WHO) So why do people smoke and how is possible to stop smoking?

History:
As drugs tobacco is closely connected with the human history. The first tobacco users were people from ancient civilizations all arround the world about 5 000 B.C. (source Wikipedia). Of course as drugs, tobacco were used because of religional purposes (yes, our well-known shamans).

The most famous fact from history is probably using tobacco by Native Americans from the time of Wild-West (you know it from westerns). These people used calumet - ceremonial smoking pipe. Remember the word "ceremonial", which does not mean, they used it for the style or escaping from reality.

In Europe there were some waves of smoking as a cultural phenomena. Finaly in last 50 years the main product for smoking is the cigarette.

Generally you can divide smokers to these groups:

Cigarette
The worst you can smoke. Today's cigarettes are not from pure tobacco, but full of artificial chemicals to enhance the taste, smoke, smell and nicotine absorption. Some sources say, there are more than 4 000 substances in cigarettes, most of them not really good for us.

Because cigarettes are inhaled, your lungs will be full of tar (permanent status, you cannot remove it), you have great risc of many cancer types.

Kretek
Tobacco combined with clove was made at the beging of 20th century for curing lung's allergies. Less dangerous than cigarette, but still not healthy as predicted.

Pipe
Pipe smokers has mostly more quality tobacco, they do not inhale smoke to lungs and they are less physicaly dependent due to less smoking in general. So in this case less dangerous than previous types, but still risc of tongue cancer.

Cigar
If you are the right cigar smoker, you will have it in your mouth aproximately once a minute. Most of the time the cigar is resting in the ashtray. The most quality tobacco used, usually without added chemicals. If these rules are applied, there is less health danger comparing to previous types.

to be continued ...

Bad Habits - Drugs

In this post we will try to improve our health with canceling the first and the worst habit for our lifestyle - the drugs. Let us see why are the drugs so important for us and what can we do with it.

History:

Drugs has been connected with people for very long time. There were generaly two purposes for making and taking drugs. The first was medicine (pharmaceutical companies are doing the same thing today) and the second was religion. Especially shamans used the drugs to improve their abilities, such as communication with astral word, healing or predicting the future. These shamans were (and still are) very special people. If somebody wanted to be a shaman, he had to do some very dangerous exams as proof himself to be immune to poisons. Of course many candidates died before they started to be shamans. Only people with exceptional health and genetically perfect adaption abilities could survive these exams. Remember - they did it for their people, not for themselves!

Today:

Today we have very selfish reasons to use drugs - mainly to escape from reality and problems or just for not to be bored. This is very bad, because the drugs cannot give us this goal. Problems stay the same, reality too and sooner or later we have to come back to face them. Also the most of people do not have exceptional health and abilities as shamans did, so their life time shortens significantly.

The next problem comparing to using drugs by shamans is the fact, that drugs are very big business. And if you have very good business, you want to have better one and do everything to earn more and more money. So today the drugs are much more dangerous than in history, because of a lot of chemicals processing to improve efficiency and getting 'loyal customers' dependent upon the products.

Finally we can say, that taking drugs is nonsense, that cannot give us anything, except destroying our body and making our life more difficult. You will be the servant of drugs and you will do only what 'they' want.

How to stop - Phase 1 - Experimenting

If you are just experimenting or thinking about to start using some drugs, it is not late. The first thing you have to do is to think about the reason of your behaviour. Are you tired, bored, ill, do you have too many problems, did somebody die?

Try to increase the amount of endorphins in your blood (these things makes you happy) - do aerobic sports, eat chocolate, bananas, have a good sex or take some L-Tryptophan. Or just focus on some activity - sport, job, your relationship and you become happier. It takes some time, but you will make it.

How to stop - Phase 2 - Light dependance

You tried it and it was good, you are taking some drugs time to time, almost with friends, but you do not need it.

Maybe you are lucky and your dependance is not physical yet. Try to do everyting from Phase 1 and do not take any potion. If you make it, good for you. If you must take it, you are unfortunatelly in Phase 3.

How to stop - Phase 3 - Medium and Heavy dependance

You need it, you tried to stop, but you were not successful.

You cannot stop alone, you are behind the border! You need specialist to help you. Stop reading this blog and phone your medical practitioner or find help center immediately. You life is in danger!