Smoke quitting tips: Bad social habits.

Cambridge packet.

Smoke is socially learned addictive behavior. It's not easy to stop smoking but you can do it with a positive mindset.

There are many articles written about how to stop smoking but in this article, I am going to tell you the truth and that truth is:

If you do not "feel the pain of smoking", then, it's not going to be an easy road to stop smoking. The smoke fight is a fight against the self's unhealthy socially learned behavior. It's not easy to say goodbye to something that is part of your life but if it's giving you pain, and if you are feeling the true pain of smoke, which you have found resilience energy to win the fight.

Three reasons why you should stop smoking:

(1). Financial cost.
If you do not care about how much you spend on smoking, it's not going to be an easy road to stop smoking.

Smokers do not get a holiday for smoke that means you smoke 365 days a year. So, you work out daily spending and multiple it by 365 days, and then times the answer by several years of smoking.

For example, Joe spends $20.00 per day X 365 days X 10 years of smoking = $73,000.00.

Now, do self-reflection.  How much have you spent? This is how much money you have done injustice to your health, financial security and family welfare. 

Addictive child smoker.

(2). Your children.
The family is made of a father, mother and children. They form a unit of learning Institute where our children learn from their parents.

The children first social class are family home. They were born into this world with empty social experiences but while growing in a family homes, they learn good and bad social habits from parents and immediate families.
 
The smoking parents directly install bad smoking social habits into their children. So, they develop into men and women in the lives of parents as their number one teachers. The children through the social observational learning leads them to think that smoking behavior is social norm and it's acceptable in greater society. The children born from smoking parents are highly likely to smoke in their future lives.

the smoking parents are merely equipping their children with wrong social knowledge that can enduringly damage to their children's future.

If you want your children to carry on from you, fair enough. Go on smoking!

Sit back and ask this question to yourself:

‘Do you love your children or love your smoke?’

(3). Health cost.

The smoking affects entire body system. So, if you do not care about your health, go ahead.

Smoke quitting tips:

(1). Identify and avoid triggering factors.
Identify and avoid smoking triggers will help speed up the effort of stopping smoking. 

For example: If drinking (beer) or listening to music triggers your smoking behavior, then stop drinking beer or engaging in that particular activity.

The continuous engaging in a new activity, generates new information that erases registered smoking memories. The constant reinforcement is of crucial to completely eliminate the bad social habits.

(2). Switching off the smoking time.
The smoking habits has programed your brain to response to smoking time. As soon as the smoking hour hits the O’clock, the smoke stimulant registered in your brain automatically arouse your behavior to respond.

 

The Smoker should employ interference activity. As soon as the new activity information is processed, simultaneously start deleting the smoking time memory. The one off new action will have less effect than the uninterrupted reinforcement.  The smoking habits is socially learned over a period of time and it require same effort. Hence, the Smoker’s resilience mindset is essentially vital.

Smoke quitting exercise.

(3). Physical exercise.
The physical exercise is one of the highly recommended smoke quitting tips. When you engage in physical exercise like fast walk, running, visiting the gym (etc.), definitely no one will smoke. The more you take interest in physical exercise, the smoking interest will die out.

(4). Peer support.
Social support is an important one, especially if both couples are planning to quit smoking. They can support each other as they can keep each other’s back as they walk through the long road to stop smoking.

(5). Counselling therapy.
Engaging in a counselling therapy will guide one to walk the guided road to stop smoking. It is advisable to seek assistance from the smoke quitting Therapist.

(6). Clean up your places.
If you want to stop smoking, you must demonstrate to yourself that you are serious about the business of stopping smoking. So, clean all your clothing, room, house, office space, car and brush your teeth and show up yourself a new look, this will motivate your dream of stopping smoking.

TAKE-HOME POINT:

•If the above three smoking habits are not adequate to stop your smoking behavior, then, there are no better reasons I would think of.

•If you can win the fight against self-choice, indeed, you can fight any fight to conquer your world.

 

How to Use Condoms.

There are two types of condoms (male and female)  that are available on the market. These condoms have 98% chances of preventing sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy if use it correctly.  The female and male condoms comes in different sizes and shapes. 

Male condom demonstration.

How to use male condom.

Step 1: What you do:
1. At the shop check the expiry date on the condom packet.
2. Do not use any sharp instruments to open the condom packet.
3. Do not rush to open the condom packet.

Step 2: How to open condom packet:
1. Ensure your penis is erected and ready for sex.
2. Check the edges of the packet with your fingers.
3. Use your fingers to tear the end of the condom packet.
4. Carefully tear the wrapper and gently take out the condom.
5. Remove the air by squeezing the end tip of the condom.
6. Place the condom on erected penis.
7. Gently unroll it down the penis.
8. Inject the wrapped condom penis into the vagina.
9. Enjoy the pleasure of body.

Step 3: What to do after the sex:
1. After sex, remove the condom from the base of your penis.
2. Tie the used condom and throw it into the rubbish bin.
3. One condom to one sexual act.
4.   Do not re-use the used condom.

How to use female condom.

Female condom demonstration.

Step 1: What to do:
1. At the shop ask for female condom.
2. Check the expiry date on the condom packet.
3. Do not use any sharp instruments to open the condom packet.
4. Do not rush to open the condom packet.

Step 2: How to open condom packet:
1. Ensure you and your partner is ready to have sex.
2. Check the edges of the packet with your finger tip.
3. Use your fingers to tear the end of the condom packet.
4. Carefully tear the wrapper and gently take out the condom.
5. Insert your condom into the vagina.
6. Put x2 fingers inside the condom opening & gently push it into the vagina so that its settles inside the vagina base.
7. Ask your man to insert the erected penis into the condom while you control the sides of the condom.
8. Now you can have sex with your partner.

Step 3: What to do after the sex:
1. After sex, remove the condom and throw it into the rubbish bin. Please, do not burn it.
2. Female condom can stay in the vagina for 8 hours.
3. She can have sex again within 8 hours while condom stays inside but if its remove, do not insert it again.
4. Do not use it after 8 hours’ expiries.

TAKE HOME POINT:

• Females wear condom while on travel for 8 hours to prevent HIV/STI and unwanted pregnancies from an unexpected rapist.

Types of social support for COVID19 patients

Support is vital.

The COVID-19 social isolation can escalate mental health depression, stress, and anxiety, which can automatically affect the mental, physical, spirit and social health and well-being of people.
The negative impact on cognitive intelligence can cause significant stress on the body's immunity system, thus accelerating COVID-19 conditions and even death.
The ability to think logically, design work, support family, involvement in social activities, and engage in higher decision-making will be impeded. The mental health will experience substantial stress, consequently, diminishing its functionality. 
The physical body is intertwined with the mind as such when the cognitive function is depressed, it impacts the physical body.
Due to social withdrawal, it's separate spiritual connections with fellow believers. Such unforeseen events can bring about spiritual landscape changes.
The denial of social movement directly impacts the social life of any human being's life. 
COVID-19 patients in isolation, healthy tips.

• Engage graduate Psychotherapists to provide mental health relief support to prevent injuries to self and properties.

• Conduct COVID-19 test for students, and separate school students from COVID-19 parents, so that students continue their studies.

• Frequent communication with the patients and assist them with needs like food, medicine, water or home visits etc.

• Support them with indoor activities like exercise, listening to music, singing songs (etc.)

• Work from home where necessary.

• Support to connect with their families and friends on Facebook, phone calls etc.

• Encourage them to comply with medicine and home base treatments prescriptions.

• Loss and grief psychoeducational sessions and social support for the affected families.