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We all have some bad habits that we find difficult to break. These problems eventually have a major impact on our lives and health. Bad habits are unwanted behaviour, which take time to break or change depending on the severity of the obsession. Common examples include: overeating, smoking, and a lazy life style.
This leaflet aims to help you address these habits, understand them and hopefully, overcome them.
Smoking
Quitting smoking can be very challenging and it is never easy to quit, but if you use a calm persuasion and not demanding or criticising yourself, slowly you will get rid of smoking. About 100,000 people in the UK die from smoking each year. Addiction to smoking leads to many diseases such as: lung cancer, heart disease, kidney problems, pulmonary diseases and it also increases the risk of miscarriage.
Guess what? Even children who live in a smoking environment are influenced to become a smoker as they grow up; smoking has a huge impact on our younger generation as they are negatively influenced by this habit and we as adults are responsible for it. Many people don’t know this is a serious issue but they regard it as normality.
There are a lot of benefits we can get from quitting smoking. You can have a healthy lifestyle and increase your life expectancy. If you stop smoking before the age of 35, your life expectancy will be slightly less than non-smokers. If you were to smoke till the age of 50, you are at a very high risk and your chances of dying from a disease caused by smoking and your disease will boosts up to a 50%. Now that is not very pleasant to hear is it?
In my opinion, I think smoking in public isn’t good for non-smokers because if they breathe the smoke of smokers their health will be unhealthy a...
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...e for breakfast? Let me guess! You would have had bacon and sausages instead of having cereal with fruits in the morning. That's not a very healthy breakfast is it?
Minimise your intake of junk food and swap over to a healthier and a 'fruitful' diet. This in turn would make you feel good about yourself and in no time you would have the perfect shape everyone longs to have! There’s no need to skip a meal in a day to improve your diet, it is more than enough to drink plenty of water with regular meal which do not consists of junk food. Eating fresh fruits and vegetables is the way to a healthier lifestyle. Challenge yourself, live a healthier life!
It's never too late for anything. You can start living healthier from now on. Say no to junk, say no to cigarettes, and say no to laziness! One life, live it healthy.
This section is a private victory, and the habit is proactive .being proactive means you can react to situations without exploding, and you can do things more thought out, and calm. Being proactive is kind of like water you shake it up and nothing happens. But not being proactive is like pop when you shake it up it explodes. I believe that I am not very good at this task and i need to
Habits are choices that one continues to do repeatedly without actually thinking about them. Habits start with a decision, but they eventually become automatic. One can probably think about things we do every day that we wish we did less of, perhaps like binging Netflix, constantly checking social media, or snacking when not being hungry. If one can understand how habits are triggered, one can learn how to overcome them. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg and “Rat Park” by Lauren Slater will reveal the main strategies to recognize and overcome habits. Angie Bachman, a women who developed a gambling habit due was well aware of her habits, but she continued to drag herself into debt, resulting in losing all that she owned and getting sued by
...el and formation of thrombi. Over 7000 chemicals found in tobacco smoke cause breathing difficulty, wheezing, lung infections and chest pain. The long-term effects of smoking can cause many cancers as it contains many carcinogens. It is the leading cause of cancer affecting the lungs, mouth, throat, kidney, stomach and many other areas. Not only do tobacco products affect the user, but also the ones around them. Second-hand smoke can increase lung cancer, heart and breathing problems, as well as a premature death. In pregnant women, the unborn baby may be subject to health problems. By eliminating tobacco products, not only do previous smokers reduce the risk of developing cancer, but also can reduce their chance of dying prematurely by a very large percentage. For example, quitting at the age of 30 can reduce their chance of dying prematurely by over 90 percent.
Smoking causes many other types of cancer, including cancers of the throat, mouth, nasal cavity, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, kidney, bladder, and cervix, and even leukemia has been found linked to smoking. Also, people who smoke are up to six times more likely to suffer a heart attack than nonsmokers, and the risk increases with the number of cigarettes smoked. Smoking also causes most cases of chronic obstructive lung disease. Also, approximately 49,400 deaths have been due to exposure to secondhand smoke. 3,000 nonsmoking adults die of diseases caused by exposure to second-hand smoke every year.
As I read the chapter I was thinking of a destructive behavior that I wanted to choose to work on to gradually eliminate it. However, I kept thinking to myself that sometimes one is not ready to change the behavior just yet. Therefore, if one does not have the motivation to change it becomes pointless to attempt in eliminating the destructive behavior. I mention this because I believe that change comes from within, so one ultimately has the control to facilitate that change. There were a couple of destructive habits that came to mind when attempting to perform this exercise. One in particularly is my obsession with online sneaker shopping. I tend to have a very difficult time controlling my spending when it comes to sneakers.
My parents know that soda makes my stomach much bigger and they motivated me to change this habit. I used to drink a lot soda with chips, french fries, chicken and pizza. Something important that made me find out is, when we people like something, then, continuously start eating the same food for a very long time until we start disliking them. Since, I have drank soda for a long time, now I feel the same taste and the taste became old to me. My parents motivation and own realization made me accomplishing this habit. I believe, Human are creatures of habit. Overtime, We buy the same foods from the same grocery store, prepare the same recipes over and over. But, if we are serious about eating healthier and losing weight, then, it is possible to change those bad eating habits until it is too late. In order to maintain a healthy behavior, first one should start to prepare for it. However, in order to achieve these goals of health and fitness is really about involving in healthy behaviors on a daily routine basis. It does not matter how small the habit is, over time they can have a huge effect on an individual’s health. Therefore, we have to be serious about changing our lifestyle in order to achieve the goal.
Also it appealed the lives of 15,500 Australians per year, and It seems overly conversational among them: Smoking causes heart disease, Hardening of the arteries, High blood pressure. Smoking cause of cancers, especially lung cancer. Smoking cause respiratory diseases, Asthma as a disease, and chronic cough. Smoking causes some problems in the stomach: ulcers, the percentage of smokers at greater incidence of ulcers. Smoking affects brain function. Smoking affects the functions of some senses, such as: the sense of taste, sight and smell. Also most smokers want to quit smoking, and most of them tried more than once, and despite the availability of a lot of medicines that help to give up the habit, but that there are 1.3 billion people are still smoking around the world. What are the reasons for the difficulty of quitting
Even though we are actually living longer lives, disease and illness are still very prevalent. I want to live a longer life, but I want to feel strong, fit, and healthy.
Many people are trapped in bad habits that they wish they never had. We as humans pick up habits, some are good some are bad. Some of us wear headphone for a long time. Late night cravings like pizza and ice cream might be a nice way to end the day, but its not good for your body. Sitting for hours in front of TV can put your heart and your eyes at risk. Smoking is a bad habit and everyone that smokes knows it. Webster New World explains the definition of habit, “A pattern of action that is acquired and has become so automatic that it is difficult to break”. Webster should have added of how to break the habits.
of change, growth, exploration and evaluation of future values. Many young people today become a victim to peer pressure. Smoking can be used as a key behavior needed for a person to become a member of a certain peer group. Young people want to be accepted and many times will do whatever they have to do to become part of crowd. They don't know that the earlier you start smoking, the greater your chances of developing lung cancer or some other lung related disease as you get older.
The first bad habit we will talk about is drinking. Drinking is not a bad habit when done responsibly. Anyone should be able to consume alcohol when they want, as long as they have a sane mental state and recollection of what they are doing. Drinking becomes a problem when people consume too much alcohol and they cannot make good, rational decisions. When this happens the alcohol content in your blood flow to your brain and affects your decision-making and reaction time. This makes perfectly normal human beings think that they can do superhuman things. Most people end up injur...
A habit can be many things, some good, some not so good. Everyone has habits that they would like to change and maybe improve upon. I believe the majority of habits I have are good ones but some are not. These bad habits are the ones I will talk about.
These facts alone should be enough to convince a person to stop smoking in my opinion. One cigarette contains over 4,000 toxic chemicals which then enters your body as poisons. Second-hand smoke kills approximately eight adults a day from lung cancer and about 35,000 deaths per year from heart disease. Cigarette smoking is also tied to 300,000 cases of bronchitis and pneumonia each year. If that isn’t enough to change your mind, just to produce 300 cigarettes one tree is being wasted so that people can smoke and cigarettes take 25-26 years to decompose. Cigarettes are so harmful that they kill about 6 million people each year. Cigarettes are also defective because they are engineered to produce an inhalable smoke that can cause major health concerns to smokers, and all the people around them. Last but not least, there is a financial burden from the cost of treating illnesses due to
In conclusion if you want to live long and not have to deal with the health risk that is involved, do not even think to start smoking a cigarette. I am on the wrong track and not healthy and after all of this research I just might quit smoking cigarettes. Staying smoke-free will give you a whole lot more of everything, more energy, better performance, better looks, more money in your pocket, and in the long run more life to live (Smoking).
I think my eating habits are usually healthy throughout the day, the problem is when I come and I want to eat anything event if I’m not that hungry, which I know you can’t tell from the food journal, but that is due to the lack of snacks in my house the past few days. Other than that, my family and I rarely eat at the restaurant and I think it helps having a better portion control and it prevents from eating junk food. Another eating habit that I have is that I love anything sweet. I’ve always had a sweet tooth, and in the past years I tried repressing it. What I’ve come to realize it that doing so only intensified my craving for sugar, therefore I’ve been allowing myself sugar, but I try to get it from an healthier source. I think that