Stop Smoking Now

Smoking has many harmful effects on the health, and is known to destroy almost each and every organ of the body. The effects of smoking on heart and lungs are devastating and cause three serious fatal diseases known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and coronary heart disease. A large number of youths are involved in smoking and there number is gradually increasing with the passage of time.

There are different steps that have been taken for smoking prevention as cigarettes have long lasting effects on the health of individuals. Different programs have been designed for the young adults. Nearly all high schools have some sort of smoking prevention programs that include different discussions, demonstrations to the young adults that guide them about the harms of smoking. Media has also introduced different commercials and programs that guide the people about its harmful effects.

There are also many voluntary programs that help the individuals to know about different preventive programs. These voluntary programs guide the individuals, who want to quit smoking, about different tips that can surely help them to quit this fatal activity. There are also different alternative activities that are also introduced to the individuals that help them to quit smoking.

It goes without saying that smoking is very harmful as it destroys your health but it is even more harmful for teenagers. In this article we are going to discuss why smoking is so dangerous for young people:

1. First of all it is very important to keep in mind that in teenage years  a reproductive system is forming and it is very important to avoid harmful influence if you want to have healthy children in future.
2. Social issue is also very important for teenagers as they can show their friends that they are nearly adults when they copy adult patterns of behavior and smoking is one of such patterns. But teenagers do not understand that in future they can regret about it.
3. It is not so evident but very often those teenagers who smoke also try alcohol or even drugs.

We are absolutely sure that there is nothing good in smoking neither for young people nor for older men and women. If you want to prevent your children from smoking you’d better start from their childhood when you can show them an example behavior. Remember that punishment is not the way out of the situation when your children start smoking as it is really true – prevention is better than cure. (more…)