Do not smoke off your Health and Wealth

Do information’s on smoking related hazards and deaths connected with smoking frustrate you? Are you worried that despite these warnings on your health, you continue to smoke?

 

Do you feel guilty that you don’t even listen to your loved ones, who beg you to kick off this fatal habit? And how’s the budget working for you? Do you manage to always have the money for a packet of cigarettes but maybe not enough to pay the bills on time? Has you family life gone up in smoke?

 

Do you complain about how much taxes you’re paying to the government?  Are you happy to be giving more of your hard-earned cash to the government via Tobacco Tax?

 

Lots of question but a single answer, quit the deadly addiction, it’s not worth it, live life the healthy way. Drugs like Chantix and Acomplia are very helpful in getting over smoking. Acomplia is also prescribed for weight loss.

Smoking Gun- No to Fatal Puff

India, which has the smoking population of around 2 crores, has finally come up with something really constructive to combat this fatal addiction. The health ministry of India is planning to open 100 tobacco cessation clinics across the country within the next two years.

The basic idea is to help chain smokers on behavioural changes and also introduce them to meditation techniques which will help them quit smoking besides putting them on Nicotine Replacement Therapy. All these clinics will have a clinical psychologist and a counselor.

Another positive step taken by the health ministry is to make it mandatory for the country’s 275 medical colleges both public and private and 600 district headquarter hospitals to start similar cessation clinics.

Earlier the WHO and the health ministry made a combined effort and ran 18 cessation clinics in 17 states. The first such clinic came up in Delhi in 2002. Since then, 40,000 smokers have visited these 18 clinics with a quit rate of 15%-20%.

Let’s hope that this new step will decrease the smoker’s ratio in a phenomenal manner. The anti-smoking awareness that the entire world is witnessing is quite noteworthy. Many smokers in European countries have left smoking by taking anti-smoking pills like Chantix. Let’s join in this effort to make the world a cigarette free zone.

Gulf Unites against Smoking

An intelligent step in the right direction, “one has to commit”. An event has been organized by “THE National Anti-Smoking Committee” to celebrate the Gulf “Anti-smoking Week”.

The health event will feature a clinic, at which people will be advised of the dangers of smoking and volunteers will register anyone looking to quit, so that they can offer support later. One of the major attractions of the event will be a device to measure the level of carbon monoxide in the lungs.

The perils of smoking are well known world over but then also the number of smokers keep on rising with time. Attraction of the next generation towards smoking is a major concern for health group’s world over.

With the help of a little will power and proven drugs like Chantix one can easily get over smoking. Understand the truth “Smoking Kills”.