How+to+stop+smoking?

This presentation was made by UNICEF (the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund). It consisted of a lecture on how to stop smoking, adn why is smoking dangerous. The meeting was held on the 20th November for a special reason: it is the International Children's Day. As many adolescents start smoking before age of 18, it was decided to talk about those problems on that important day. In the beginning of the presentation, each listener was given a book. The Book is //Spegnila!// by Donatella Barus (a giornalist) and Roberto Boffi (a pneumologist). The book talks about the following topics. - How to stop smoking? - What kind of smoker are you? - What are your motivations for stopping? - How badly are you affected? - What is your method of stopping? Here are listed the basic contents of the lecture. Firstly, the main influence ont eh smoking teens are their teachers. It is very important for a respected adult to tell the young addict to stop. The teachers might have some influence, maybe even the one the parents don't have. It is essential that the smoker understands that he has a problem, and is willing to take action to stop it. The smoker must also understand the expences he faces in buying cigarets. The //Tabachi// sell cigarettes for profit - and it is a large one. Today, the smoking is being studied as a medical dillema. Usually, if the smoker is being examined by a family doctor, the smoker is seriously addicted. It is needed to note that one sigaret has a very strong smell, and can easily be detected on the opposite end of a closed room. It is immaginable what damage does the smoker experience. It is not recommended to smoke in the morning, even one cigaret. Not only cigarettes are a bug threat to the smoker, they are also a big thread to the environment. The horrible drugs released into the air pollute the atmosphere, which leads to global environmental problems. It is always hard to stop smoking. There are two main problems of being addicted; the first one is that the smoker is addicted, and develops a passion for the cigarettes. The second one is thaat hte body of the smoker suffers.This is a big problem faced by the modrn youth. It is a very large problem in Italy, according to Roberto Boffi. There is a test present in the book mentioned above. It is a test on how addicted are you, and us it the best time for you to stop. That depends on your motivations (such as - motherhood, bad working capacity, ect.). It was mentioned that smoking could led to cancer. The smoke can also be absorbed in a passive way, such as living with a smoker or working on a cigarette factory. The health sufferes greatly from every cigarette smoked. For example, people who suffer from asthma may die from smoking. It is essential to help those people. According to Donatella Barus, some teens use the cigarettes as distractions. To close their eyes on the daily problems, teens prefer to get lost in their addictions. Teens also smoke to look cool; they think that they will lose their friends' respect if they do something so 'uncool' as stop smoking, hance they do it to be distinguished. But, as a consequence, the adolescent's concentration ability weakens, and they become psychologically unstable. The teens have to believe in themselves and fully understand the danger of smoking to stop. Nicotine, one of the major contents of the cigarettes, is what causes the largest part of the addiction. Often, when a smoking addict receives some money inan unexpected way (such as winning the lottery, receiving pocket money, and such), he or she spends it on cigarettes. This is very dangerous in many way. Of course, it is very difficult to stop smoking. The people closest to the smoker must help. The easiest way is not to stop buying cigarettes, but to let go of the addiction slowly, cutting the use of cigarettes through time. Also, it is harder for women to stop smoking than for men due to the difference in the brain. The last thing mentioned was that nowadays, the cigarettes are more dangerous than several years ago, for the chemical composition changed. Today, it is harder to stop smoking than ever.