Breaking Bad Habits of Smoking

Smoking causes cancer etc., yeah, so many damage to health and at worst you stumble upon the big danger of poor health. Many people know about the danger of smoking. But they also wonder how to quit their bad habit, not knowing about breaking bad habits of smoking. For you who want to quit smoking there are quick tips that can be used below:
- The first is the intention of the smoker, if you have not been unanimous determination to quit smoking, would be too difficult to quit smoking.
- Gradually reduce cigarette consumption. Usually you buy 2 packs a day, start slowly trying to reduce a 1 pack a day and so on. This will increase your effort in breaking bad habits of smoking.
- Train yourself to resist smoking. Suppose you want to smoke, but try to wait or hold up to 5 minutes, and increase to 10 minutes for the next day and so on. And the longer drive to smoke will disappear slowly but surely.
- Also you can replace cigarettes with other alternatives, such as candy or gum.
- You might be able to allocate your money to buy cigarettes for savings or to buy goods you need more.
- Regular exercise can also make you want to quit smoking. And reduce the staying up late, with adequate sleep. You need little effort but steady in breaking bad habits of smoking.
Perhaps the above are only few ways to stop smoking, you can also find your best ways to live healthy if possible.

Opium

There are many criticisms levelled against alcohol and opium. However, the two are very different in their action. Under the effects of alcohol a person becomes a rowdy, whereas opium makes the addict dull and lethargic. He/she becomes even sleepy and incapable of doing anything useful. The evil effects of alcohol strike the eye every day, but those of opium are not so obvious. Anyone who wishing to see its devastating effect should got to Assam or Orissa provinces. Thousands have fallen victims to this intoxicant in those areas. They give one the impression of living on the verge of death. Though possess a good physique, but one addicted to opium look miserable and more dead than alive. An opium addict will stoop to anything in order to procure his dose of opium.

Trade in opium was obviously an immoral one and yet it went on flourishing. A thing of this type which simply ruins people should not be tolerated for a single minute.

After having statement on opium as an intoxicant, it must be admitted that its place in Materia Medica is incontestable. It is impossible to do without this drug as a medical agent. But that can be no reaason for using it as intoxicant. Opium is a well-known poison and its use as an intoxicant should be strictly prohibited.

Source: Key to Health, M.K. Gandhi (1948)