Despite health warnings, a large number of people continue to smoke all over the world. Why should we concerned about it? What solutions would you suggest?
ANSWER:
Smoking already became a trend nowadays among people most
specially the youths. Once a person starts smoking, it would be very difficult
to remove it. Why? This is because smoking already became a hobby for smokers. As
of the moment almost 10 million of the population all over the world is
smoking. Because of the growing numbers of smokers all over the world, health
organizations begin to spread their words of warnings to all smokers including
the different illnesses and diseases they could suffer later because of
smoking. But despite of these warnings, smokers are having hard time to totally
quit smoking.
Smokers can be
categorized to three: light smokers, moderate smokers, and lastly heavy
smokers. Light smokers are those people who only smoke occasionally such as
attending to important events or gatherings. Meanwhile, moderate smokers are
considered to be smoking once a day and can consume 1-2 stick of cigarette per
day. Lastly, heavy smokers are considered those who can consume 1 or more packs
per day.
Being a light, moderate or heavy smoker can considerably have
a great effect on how a person will perceive these warnings. Light smokers has
higher chance of eradicating smoking out of their day to day life since they
only smoke during special occasions. Meanwhile, moderate smokers have also
chance to totally remove smoking. Since they only smoke once per day, they can
gradually reduce the stick of cigarette they consume by once per week. Moderate
smokers also have a higher chance than those who are heavy smokers to
understand the risks of smoking. However, for those heavy smokers, it will be
quite difficult for them to quit smoking since they already consider smoking as
a part of their food intake and routine for the day. No matter how you explain
to them the danger of smoking, they wouldn’t stop on smoking.
As a nurse and part of the health team, a lot of patients
suffering from chronic pulmonary disorders are heavy smokers. And even if they
are already diagnose with life threatening diseases caused by smoking, they
still resort to smoking as a relaxation. Like what I had mentioned, smoking
became a hobby for them already and is already a part of their day to day life.
Eradicating it would be really difficult so as this will be a big concern to
everyone as not only them who are actually smoking but also those who are
around them. The only way we can help them quit smoking is by consistently
giving them health teachings regarding the risks and dangers of smoking. We can
help them eradicate smoking by gradually reducing the sticks of cigarette they
consume until they will no longer find the cigarette on their pockets. We can
also inform them on the alternatives of smoking such when they have the urge to
smoke, they would simply close their and remind themselves about the possible
events that will happen once they smoke again.
