Smoking Cigarettes and Drinking Alcohol Negatively Affects Your Personal Life
It's a well known fact that smoking and drinking seriously damage your health. Medical research has shown that both can lead to cancer, strokes and many further long-term health problems.
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Smoking Cigarettes and Drinking Alcohol Negatively Affects Your Personal Life
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It’s a well known fact that smoking seriously damages your health. Medical research has shown that smoking can lead to cancer, strokes and many further long-term health problems. If the dangers of contracting long-term diseases such as cancer and emphysema are unlikely factors in putting you off smoking, you should at least be aware of the harmful ingredients that cigarettes contain. Find out below why smoking is bad for your health.
The ingredients that go into cigarettes will give you an insight into what you are actually inhaling. Cigarette smoke contains ammonia, which is used as a domestic cleaner; arsenic, known for its use as a rat poison; benzene, used in making dyes; carbon monoxide, poisonous gas, cadmium, used in batteries; cyanide, a deadly poison; DDT, an insecticide that has been banned, polonium, radioactive elements that cause cancer. Whenever you smoke your body becomes exposed to all these toxins and 3990 other harmful substances.
Besides causing cancer, emphysema, heart and lung disease, smoking can also play a major part in hampering your sex life and personal relationships. Not one but two very recent studies by Dr. Irving Goldstein and his respected colleagues at the New England Male Reproductive Health Center, Boston University Medical School highlighted the strong connection between smoking and erectile dysfunction. It was also found that smoking causes negative effects on the male reproductive organs. Smoking also affects the fertility of male smokers by reducing sperm count and sperm motility as well as altering the shape of the sperm. Dr. Goldstein went on to say that, he believed smoking to be the leading cause of impotence in the US today.
If you are a long-term smoker you can expect serious deposition and blockage in the arteries to arise in later life. These arteries carry blood to various organs, including the penis. When nicotine reaches the brain, it causes rapid contraction in the penile tissues. This symptom, known as acute vasospasm, restricts blood flow into the penis. When nicotine is in the bloodstream, it causes damage to the valve mechanism. Nicotine also minimizes your ejaculation volume and damages sperm motility. Cigarettes contain polonium, which is one of the many of radioactive particles that work to destroy sperm.
There are many impotence treatments including Viagra and Cialis on the market today. However, the first line of treatment and the best advice for any smoker suffering from impotence is to quit smoking. Chantix and Zyban are 2 prescription medications that are available for smoking cessation. If you do not want to rely on impotence drugs to correct erectile dysfunction later in life, it is advised that you consult your doctor over either Chantix or Zyban, to quit smoking in a short-term period.
Have you talked to an alternative physician about nutritional therapy? I ask, you mean you can be cured with vitamins? It is not as simple as that, but nutrition can help. As I explain in another article on thyroid, low thyroid function can cause depression. For some, alcohol is a way to alleviate the depression. For others, the depression or alcoholism is a result of chemical imbalances traced to poor nutrition.
What is most important to me, in writing this article, is that you feel empowered. For sufferers and their loved ones, alcoholism takes away control of their lives. If you drink or have a loved one who drinks, I have news that will save you a broken heart and/or a broken life. Through nutrition, you can take charge of your health and become clean and sober for the rest of your life. Good nutrition is all-important in getting off the bottle. In fact, I was amazed to discover that even the American Dietetic Association has determined alcoholics can benefit from nutrient therapy and that most hospitals now incorporate improved nutrition in their alcohol programs. The ADA even performed its own study to see if nutrition would help the alcohol rehabilitation success rate.
This bottle-breaking study compared two groups of alcoholics, each on the standard AA 12-step therapy. The only difference was one group was put on a special diet of complex carbohydrates (beans, peas and whole grains), low sugar and no caffeine. Those on the special diet said they experienced less craving for alcohol and were more successful in kicking the addiction. Researchers at Loma Linda University School of Public Health demonstrated that a diet of mostly simple carbohydrates and junk food white bread products and sugar could increase the craving for alcohol.
In their experiment, rats placed on a junk food diet drank a weekly average of what would be a quart of 100 proof whisky a day for a man. Rats on the same diet but with the addition of vitamin and mineral supplements drank a third less, and rats fed a balanced human diet drank one-seventh the original amount. The addition of nutrients and food to their diets in truth made them need less alcohol. Now, here is a staggering observation: in a previous study, 20 percent of the rats on a complex carbohydrate diet developed no taste for alcohol until sugar was added to it. Then they became the heaviest drinkers of all, drinking in a week what would be 1-/2 quarts a day for a man.
The connection between nutrients and cravings and the brain is very interesting. I do not think we quite realize, or fully comprehend, the effect our diet has on out mental health. It appears nutritional imbalances can actually alter brain function to such a degree that it causes cravings, depression and even psychosis! What came first, the chicken or the egg? Do nutritional imbalances create the craving for alcohol or does the alcohol create the imbalances, and an addiction? I think the answer is both. Many alcoholics started with a depression problem. They seek a way out, and the craving for alcohol becomes a secondary problem.
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