| Smoking tobacco is an age-old practice. The | | | | increasing alertness and memory with mild |
| act of tobacco smoking involves burning | | | | euphoria, its long term effects on the |
| tobacco leaves, dried or cured and inhaling | | | | chronic users are not encouraging. Regular |
| the smoke. The reason for smoking may be | | | | smoking results in confusion, insomnia, |
| anything from pleasure sake to | | | | restlessness, metabolic disorder, appetite |
| self-medication to social or ritual purpose | | | | suppression etc. It has been established |
| and to a form of addiction. The tobacco smoke | | | | after prolonged medical research that lung |
| is inhaled through many forms like | | | | cancer, cardiovascular diseases etc., are the |
| cigarettes, cigar, pipe, bidi and hookah. | | | | results of consistence smoking. The negative |
| | | | effects of smoking, proved after many tests |
| Cigarettes: | | | | and analysis of results have strongly led to |
| | | | the formation of a strong lobby for |
| Cigarettes are the most common form used for | | | | anti-smoking. This group persuades smokers to |
| smoking. It consists of a paper rolled in to | | | | quit smoking to stay fit in their life. |
| a cylindrical shape, the inside of which is | | | | According to the antagonists of smoking, the |
| stuffed with tobacco leaves. Modern day | | | | non-smokers are subjected to passive smoking, |
| cigarettes have different type of tobacco | | | | which is equally dangerous because the smoke |
| leaves stuffed into it and in addition to | | | | coming out of the cigars etc is being inhaled |
| that come with a filter at one end. | | | | by the non-smokers. |
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| Cigars: | | | | Hypnosis is the state of deep sleep in which |
| | | | the sleeping person is controlled by another |
| The cigars come in different shape. They have | | | | person. Using hypnosis, a smoker is made to |
| cylinder of tobacco rolled in tobacco leaves. | | | | quit the habit. Normally, a habitual smoker |
| Cuban cigars are still world famous for their | | | | retires to bed with a vow not to smoke from |
| quality. | | | | the next day. But the very first thing he |
| | | | does after getting up in the morning is to |
| Pipes: | | | | light his cigarette. Because, people do not |
| | | | have that much of conviction in their ability |
| Pipes are different from cigarettes and | | | | to discard their habit. Under hypnosis, new |
| cigars in that they have a small chamber for | | | | and positive thoughts are pushed into your |
| combustion purpose and a small stem that ends | | | | subconscious mind, making it easy for you to |
| in a mouthpiece for inhaling. Pipes are made | | | | quit the habit. Though the subject of |
| of different materials like clay, wood etc. | | | | hypnotism itself is very controversial, it |
| | | | has cured many people of smoking ailment. |
| Hookahs: | | | | |
| | | | The habit of smoking is wide prevalent with |
| Hookahs, also called sheeshas, are water | | | | younger generation being enticed into this |
| pipes working on water-filtration method. | | | | bad practice. People, afflicted with this, |
| They are indirectly heated; Hookahs are more | | | | find it very difficult to give it up. The |
| used for smoking hashish or opium. | | | | degree of binding they have with the smoking |
| | | | becomes so strong that they are unable to |
| Health effects: | | | | break it. We see smokers admitting that they |
| | | | smoke heavily but unable to come out of that. |
| The effect of smoking in any form is not good | | | | But considering the serious health effects to |
| for health. Nicotine, an addictive stimulant | | | | which the smokers are exposed, that may cost |
| is found in the tobacco smoke. Though the | | | | their lives, they had better stop smoking |
| initial effect of nicotine on the beginners | | | | today itself, without any postponements. |
| and irregular or first time users is one of | | | | |