Smoking is a lifestyle

I remember growing up television and thought how cool are the actors who smoked. From James Dean to Dean Martin, I thought it was the coolness personified by popular cigarette dangling from his mouth. I can still picture the poster of James Dean leaning against the Hot Rod, smoking a cigarette.

A lot of that goes far, I think. Young people see examples eminent drink alcohol or smoke a cigarette and think the same things that I thought if Itheir age. He began experimenting with these products, cool at first, then end with a second. I think begin to believe that they too have become like their heroes. They live what they see and enjoy immensely.

The lifestyle of the young, living on the margins and rebelled against what they know is not in their interest. But hey, they're young. Have a lifetime ahead of them. So if you ask them about their lifestyle as a young adult,they will probably respond with a statement that "life is good." Now the clock speed a bit 'and see what their lifestyle is like in 40 years. Are now in their sixties and are 30 or 40 years smoked.

A new study examines the impact of smoking in middle-aged long-term risk of impaired activities of daily living (ADL). Defines the first ADL - these are things we do every day, including bathing, brushing teeth, urinating / bowel movement in the toilet, combingHair, etc. Most of us think we do without problems 80. We wish you a nice, young nurse who change our Depends. The study examined 2,200 people in 1980, then again in 1999. They found that smokers have a higher risk of impaired ADL. This means that it was harder for them to do the simple things of just existing. The odds ratio (risk) was even higher for those who smoked more than 20 cigarettes per day.

This is the problem with smoking. WhenThey are young and invincible, the smoke creates only silent changes in your body. But the repeated compromise of smoking every day for years, turning this previously unknown physiological changes in an ever-present reality Stark. Breathing becomes difficult, chest pain are present, the simplest infections to come in waves, and you get a name before the emergency room nurse. Sure, some people are physiologically wired to be less affected, but to smoke as the general ruleStatistics and experience, smoking is not to improve your lifestyle as you age.

Imagine for a moment that you have 62 years. You wake up at 4:00 to take a breathing treatment. You can go back to bed, where only 2-3 with pillows, you can not sleep otherwise stagger breathe. You turn the oxygen concentrator is located near the bed, because you're a bit 'out of breath more than usual. Finally, it was only half asleep awake 3 hours later, feeling very anxious. You use the inhalerWhat you hold in your bedroom drawer. It arrives on your Walker and move to the bathroom. Halfway there, you sit on your breathing. A few minutes later come back and use the facilities. You return to your bed where another puff of your inhaler. Decide just keep on pajamas, because you did not want to wear today. Now you go into the kitchen to get coffee. When you arrive ten minutes, then pour a cup and startfeel a bit 'better. You call your spouse and ask them about your medication and drugs out of the kitchen.

It 'hard to get back into the bathroom to brush his teeth and showering, so that the pointer on the chair and sit. Ask your spouse to spend the oxygen tubing to keep it under your chair, if you have taken. Next read the paper, combing hair and think about what you do today. When we talk about it, call your grandchildren(If you are in town) and ask them to come for a visit. It 's too hard for you so that you do it for them. Nor have the front door wheelchair accessible yet. But they have a tank of oxygen delivered to their house, ready for you when the ramp is built.

Now it's time for another breathing treatment, unless you need a new field of tissue of the face, because the last box used in the morning. The decision was to get a second Tissue BoxSave time, tomorrow, when you're finished with this. The rest of the day is spent reading, watching TV, doing crossword puzzles or any other activity that you chose to enjoy in retirement.

Lets skip the night. Since you still have your pajamas to everything you do is brush your teeth, take your pills and inhale your breath treatment. Finally, the collapse in bed after a stressful day and physically exhausting. During their set on your3 cushions looking for comfortable, consider how you idolized James Dean. And 'then you could go to that child of 24 years, and say that smoking is not worth it.