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Everyone knows that smoking is bad. It has carcinogens, it causes yellow teeth, wrinkles, and lung damage. So, we can say with certainty that smoking is without argument one of the most unhealthy (and expensive) addictions to have. With that said, there’s lots we can do to kick smoking to the curb. Regularly doing yoga, in particular, offers addiction recovery in all aspects, namely physical, mental, and emotional. Yoga to quit smoking Doing yoga regularly, opens up the air pathways. This promotes fuller, deeper breaths. Any pose that can expand the chest wall is excellent, like: Cobra Pose Lay flat on the floor with your front to the ground. Now bring your torso up, by straightening your arms. Everything below your waist will keep still and flat on the ground. Doing the cobra pose bends the back while expanding and stimulating the lungs. Cat-Cow Pose Go down on all fours on the ground before slowly arching your spine and bringing air all the way into the abdomen. Now bri

The health risks associated with chronic alcohol abuse are numerous such as high blood pressure and stroke. But the biggest effect of alcohol in the body is on the liver. Drinking alcohol regularly leads to an increased vulnerability to jaundice, cirrhosis, liver failure, liver cancer, and many other conditions. Effect of Alcohol on the Live r The liver is responsible for breaking down and filtering out the harmful substances in the blood, and manufacturing proteins, enzymes, and hormones which is useful for the body to ward off infections. Its other job is to convert vitamins, nutrients and medicines into substances that can be used by our body. Furthermore, the liver cleans our blood, produces bile for digestion and stores glycogen for energy. Over 90 percent of consumed alcohol is processed by the liver. The rest is excreted out via urine, sweat and breathing. The body needs about an hour to process one alcoholic drink. This time frame keeps increasing with each drink. The

  Did you know that according to a nationwide survey, there are around 120 million smokers in India. Also the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a report that in 2019, India was home to 12% of the world's smokers. And if that wasn’t shocking enough, there are more than 10 million deaths each year due to tobacco addiction in India. If you are a smoker or someone you know is, then it won’t be long before there will be 1 more name added to this statistic. In today’s world of widespread access to knowledge, it is impossible not to be aware of the numerous health risks that occur due to cigarette smoking and yet tobacco use continues to be the leading cause of preventable death and disease in India. Quitting smoking is hard. It is not something that can happen in one day. It is a journey. But the benefits are numerous. You will improve your health and the quality and duration of your life, as well as the lives of people around you. The first step to quit smoking is to alter yo

Alcohol is a toxin for the body. Drinking huge amounts of alcohol regularly is no different than drinking poison. It rots your body from the inside. There are no pros to drinking alcohol regularly. It affects your mental, physical, and even spiritual health. It makes you incapable of functioning as a normal human being. In fact, in India, alcoholism has been often linked with violent tendencies and domestic violence as well. Losing control of their senses and being under the effect of alcohol makes people more prone to commit crimes. A third of the violent crimes committed in India has been under the influence of alcohol. Not to mention, the accidents caused by DUI (Drinking Under Influence). Also, there is an issue of contaminated alcohol as well. In February 2019, nearly 100 people died after drinking contaminated alcohol in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand in India. With all these things that are against alcohol drinking, why do people still continue to drink? In today’s world, dri

Alcohol addiction (also known as Alcohol Dependency) is a disorder that manifests in the obsessive thinking about and use of alcohol. It is a condition that progresses over time and may turn fatal after a while. Many define alcoholism as a family disease. Because if even one person in the household is an alcoholic, the entire family suffers as a result. Alcohol affects the chemicals in the brain and induces an artificial state of happiness. But after a while of consuming alcohol regularly, it takes more and more to achieve the same effect, thus leading to alcohol dependency with frightening consequences.   As a person starts depending more and more on alcohol, they allow relationships, jobs, studies, careers and children to get worse and worse as alcohol becomes a central need in their life. Most alcohol addicts may also be in denial about their addiction.   If they continue this destructive, self-harming and damaging way of life that means that they don’t fully see the truth and

According to a nationwide government survey, around 5.7 crore people need treatment for tobacco dependence, 72 lakh for using cannabis and nearly 60 lakh for other similar addictive substances.    The survey was conducted on over 2 lakh households in 186 districts, along with a respondent-driven sampling survey of 70,293 people suffering from various tobacco addictions.    The survey was published by The Times of India newspaper, where it was mentioned how the high rate of dependency among people on tobacco is a cause for alarm and also observes the growing easy availability of cigarettes and beedis.    In another multi-city survey, as many as 75 percent of youngsters in India, revealed that they started smoking before turning 21, mostly due to peer pressure.   Tobacco, in the form of cigarettes, attracts a large number of people and its abusers are increasing day-by-day. Cigarette smoking has been associated with mouth cancer, lung cancer, poor quality of health and increased chances