The Harmful Effects of Smoking
Personal experiences from my family to yours
Smoking can cause a lot of harm to people.
I would like to share some personal experiences about smoking that I wrote about before in a book called Our Society: Addiction and More Uncovered. Growing up I have seen many people smoking. Around me I had my father, his wife Erica, my mother, my stepfather Zoltan, my uncle and his girlfriend, family friends, my grandfather, people in the street, people I met, friends, coworkers, and colleagues smoked. In the video below I am sharing parts of the story that pertain to me and my family.
I have seen many other families in many people during my life and my work as a nurse who struggles with smoking and quitting smoking. It is not easy it is a very difficult addiction to quit. Many people have told me that it’s more difficult to quit smoking than anything else. People were able to quit drugs and alcohol but were not able to quit smoking. Next month is heart month and I would like to dedicate this article to awareness to the people who need help to stop smoking that there is help out there.
Please talk to your providers, talk to your family and friends. I have seen people develop cancer in people die because of smoking and also people died because of secondhand smoking. Those deaths are preventable. There’s a lot of other pollution and environmental harm out there that is more difficult to stop. Smoking is one thing that we can help people and support them to stop. If you know anybody who smokes please be there for them if you can and offer support.
We have already lost too many people to the pandemic, to multiple diseases, genetic disorders, environmental harm, smoking does not have to be one of those causes. Today there are multiple quit lines, nationally, and statewide that are available to help people quit smoking.
I hope you like the video I created for this purpose, Thank you for reading and listening, Gabriella
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