User talk:Monika Hilderbrown

A lot of people know how hazardous cigarettesmoking habit is. It can lead to many health problems like strikes, cancers, heart attacks. The number of the manufactured cigarettes goes to more than 5.5. Trillion and there are more than a billion of users who are smoking cigarettes every day. However many smokers realize the danger that they are exposed to and the demand for stop smoking is growing.

The first step to help someone to give up smoking is to find out why that person is smoking. There could be many causes like: problems at work, family problems or just to be in fashion. In most cases the main reason is frustration and emotional stress. In these cases the meditation, rest and therapy are the best way to eliminate the causes that lead to smoking cigarettes or other tobacco products.

The second thing that every smoker should do is to seek support from friends and family. This step is very important, because only by supporting, a person can become better and can think positively. For smokers who have had smoking habits for many years are being organized therapy sessions and support groups. All of these actions represent very good ways to stop smoking. These sessions are organized for people to realize what is going on with their lives and how to improve it.

The scientists say that nicotine addiction is much stronger than Heroin addiction, but hey are both very dangerous. There are a lot of persons who don’t need external help, they do everything by themselves. When a smoker quits smoking, the nicotine is trying to call him back and this way the smoker returns to this bad habit. Many alternative methods have appeared like: gum, nicotine patches or sprays that can be used to deal with nicotine cravings.

Another alternative to tobacco is smoking electronic cigarettes, which are considered to be not so strong and safer than traditional cigarettes, because of the inhaled dose of nicotine without the presence of burning tobacco. Anyway there has to be done more research to prove that e-cigarettes are better and they could represent a valid nicotine replacement treatment. Many other products and methods are used as an easy way to stop smoking such as: smokeless tobacco, certain drugs/medication, herbal cigarettes.

Everyone should understand that there is no relatively easy ways to quit smoking, without having some mental or physical consequences. But these effects come to normal after a period. And remember that everything is possible. Different persons can support different ways to stop smoking, depending on the character. In general giving up smoking takes a lot of will power and a good effort

Depression is an important subject for doctors in the smoking problem.
For many years there were some unsolved questions about depression and how it influences a person to start smoking cigarettes. A person can be influenced to do bad things when he is in depression, he even can start smoking, thinking that this is the right choice to solve his problems. The reality about this state of mind is not so bright and has only a few solutions to pass it. An important question was raised among doctors about how much cigarettes help in depression.

Both men and women have this dark feeling and they all are looking for answers. It wasn’t decided yet that depression is a disease or not. Anyway it is a serious affection and it has to be treated. People believe that by smoking a cigarette they will solve their problems easier and that cigarettes will bring some relief to the suffering person.

In a cigarette are ingredients including nicotine; this is a very dangerous substance which can affect the health of a person. Nicotine creates a feeling of relaxation. A lot of persons use cigarettes for stress relief. But these good effects are only for a short period of time, we all know what harm is done for a long term. When someone suffers from depression it means that they have a problem that is in their brain. This issue is studied by doctors for years.

Persons who suffer from depressions most of the time are sad and have no interest in their regular activities. For them it is difficult to eat or even to sleep. They have different thoughts about suicide or that there is no reason to live. Those persons have been diagnosed by doctors with energy loss and slowness. But we can say for sure that cigarettes don’t work for depression. They do not cure the depression; they can just bring more damages.

There were cases when a depressed person started to smoke and they had more dark thoughts about life than before. They even thought about death. This is such a harmful way of thinking and is dangerous too. Many persons think that smoking is the best way for relaxation, but it is not. Depression is a very challenging mental state.

If we want to know what cures this mental state, we must look at past results. There were not so many cases when smoking cigarettes have helped anyone. When we smoke we are inhaling chemicals, which are so bad for our body and mind. They don’t bring any positive effects, only damages. In the past Indians and aboriginals used natural herbs for healing diseases. But nowadays there are used chemicals in the cigarettes and they are not natural.

Depression has to be cured from the point where it had started, this means from the brain. The brain is the one that is taking and giving instructions. So the cure has to be found there.

Obama Encouraged to Stop Smoking and Be On A Diet
President Obama is in a very good shape, doctors affirmed after a serious consultation that the president has done. But there are a few issues related his health regarding the elevated cholesterol, because he has an interesting title: the most historic Marlboro Man in America. As everybody knows this cigarette brand is produced by the biggest tobacco company Philip Morris International.

A health control he has done in 2007 has shown that his cholesterol level was normal, but the recent medical exam has showed that the level of cholesterol has risen. All of those happened because the president likes to eat fries and cheeseburgers. The medical exam from this year found that his level of cholesterol was 209. The level of bad cholesterol was 138 and his personal doctor advised him to stop smoking in order to make the level of cholesterol go down and try to reduce it at 130 by having a diet.

The effects of cigarettes can be additivie difference and they are stacked the longer you smoke, the worse it is, but you can start seeing the benefits if you stop smoking immediately. For example, after just 20 minutes, you can see your heart rate and blood pressure drop back to normal levels after your last cigarette. After one year, you can see your risk of heart attack cut in half and after ten years of not smoking, if you had been a smoker … you can see the risk of death from lung cancer go down by half, as well. So it is never too late to stop.

Michelle Obama affirmed that it is impossible to succeed in having a good lifestyle if the person doesn’t want to change hid bad habits like smoking cigarettes, drinking, drug abuse or eating junk foods. No matter how hard it will be tried to introduce new banning laws, it all depends on the people and how they want to live. In her affirmation she could refer to her husband when the whole nation is warned about the danger, but they are still doing the same thing and not changing anything.

Many times the president is eating steak which also influences on his health. So he might be a candidate for high cholesterol therapy. Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman is the chief physician at White House and he said to the president to continue using Nicorette gum, because he has done this thing for the last two years.

Barack Obama still doesn’t want to give up on smoking Marlboro Red for his own good. Even though he knows that by acting like that he might influence many teenagers in starting smoking. The wife of the president is recommending to the whole America to adopt a healthy lifestyle and she hopes that Obama will follow her suggestions too.

Cheeseburger eating, alcohol drinking, cigarette smoking are so bad for the human health and can cause enviornment damages too.

Norwegian Country sued by Philip Morris for smoking bans in stores.
Philip Morris- one of the biggest tobacco companies in the world has decided to sue Norway, because this state tried to overturn a law inside the country by banning the exposal of the cigarettes in markets and stores. PMN- Philip Morris Norway brings the Scandinavian country to court and starts a legal action to destroy the ban on displaying cigarettes in retail stores.

On January 1, 2010 Norway started to ban the display on tobacco products in retail stores. All of these actions were taken to cut the impulse of buying cigarettes by teenagers or even adults. In Iceland and Ireland were already taken these anti-smoking measures.

In Norwegian country, tobacco productshave been banished to closed cases, but cigarettedispensers won’t show any longer the brand labels. The Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services reported that display bans didn’t have any impact on reducing the tobacco smoking in different countries where they were implemented, but in their country they might have a strong impact.

These rules prevent adult and young smokers, but still there should be done a lot regarding this problem. Every part has its own opinion about what is happening regarding the smoking ban. The Norwegian part believes that if the smoking bans would have no results then tobacco companies would not be so worried about this.

That shows that they are on the right way and by banning the display of tobacco products in stores they would cut the consumption of cigarette products. That is why they are not worried about this law, affirmed Bjoern-Inge Larsen. He also thinks that this ban is right because it will have a big contribution on reducing the number of smokers.

In June 2004, the Norwegian state became the second country in the world which banned smokingin restaurants, bars, night clubs and other public places. The first country was Ireland to take the same actions. There are 21 percent of Norwegians aged 16 to 74 who smoked every day in 2009, and another 9 percent who have smoked only occasionally, the Statistics Norway say.

Norway is not a member of the European Union but it is a member of the European Economic Area (EEA) and complies the EU single market rules.