Causing health damage “of our own free will” includes a number of aspects that we are used to filling our lives with. Consider such habits and activities that have an extremely negative effect on our body, such as smoking and weight loss.
Harmful through smoking
About how harmful it is to smoke, it is said today very, very much. Nicotine, or rather the resins and other substances contained in it, affect almost all organs and systems of the body, from the oral mucosa to the lungs. Due to the fact that you smoke cigarettes, you are more likely than anyone else to develop a disease such as nicotine sky leukoplakia. So the mucous membrane of your oral cavity reacts to the systematic irritation of its tobacco smoke. At first, this manifests itself in the form of a whitish plaque in the sky, which you hardly pay attention to. Then dense tubercles form, which can subsequently lead to the development of palate cancer.
In addition, smoking in general can become a provocateur of the emergence of any type of cancer, and not only lung cancer, which the Ministry of Health has long scared everyone. By deliberately harming your health, you can earn laryngeal cancer, tongue and stomach cancer, and pancreatic cancer, which, by the way, is considered to be the most serious and absolutely incurable cancer today. Do not forget about gastritis, gastric ulcer, duodenitis, rheumatoid arthritis, diseases of the vascular system, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction and the fact that nicotine significantly reduces your body's resistance to colds, tonsillitis, flu and other infectious diseases.
As for pregnant women, their bad smoking habit can generally provoke miscarriages, premature births, the birth of a dead baby or the presence of any pathologies in the baby. Very often, smoking mothers have children with cleft lip and other deformities on their faces.
We can not but mention passive smoking and its effect on health. Despite the fact that a law has already entered into force that prohibits smoking in public places, many people continue to be just passive smokers. Parents who smoke in the apartment (or one of them) do much more harm to their child than to themselves. The work of a non-smoker in a team of smokers is also associated with the fact that harmful substances will maximize the load on the body of a person who has chosen to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Therefore, if you are not a supporter of nicotine, then, if possible, avoid places where nicotine addicts gather. And if you are a heavy smoker and deeply respect yourself and your addiction, then learn to respect others and value their health by smoking somewhere on the sidelines.
Recent studies by scientists have shown that almost 70% of smokers can get rid of their habit on their own. Thus, harm to health by nicotine is nevertheless more psychological dependence than physical. You yourself may well begin to fight with yourself, having the willpower in reserve and, of course, a sincere desire to say goodbye to a cigarette. To date, a lot of literature has been written about how in practice you can quit smoking yourself.
Doing Health Through Weight Loss
Today, many people suffer from the desire to lose weight. Yes, yes, it is they who suffer, since most of those who lose weight simply fell into the psychological trap of the cult of thinness, which takes place in the modern world. Hollywood actresses, one slimmer than the other, whose photos fill glossy magazines, twist one novel after another. Fashionable outfits in stores, the sizes of which rarely exceed the figure 46. And also there are a lot of television shows in which they seem to gently advertise certain methods of losing weight.
And, notably, some women really have excellent parameters, but, nevertheless, are embraced by the idea of fixation, how to lose a few more kilograms. At the same time, they are constantly searching for the answer to the question: "How to lose weight quickly?" Alas, this will not work without harm to health. And all professional nutritionists never tire of repeating this. Overweight needs to be shed gradually, otherwise you will only aggravate metabolic disorders, which is one of the main causes of fullness. Therefore, do not rush to use “fast” diets and super effective drugs containing sibutramine, which completely discourages your appetite. Of course, you will achieve a quick result, but cause irreparable harm to your health. In any case, it will not hurt you to learn to love yourself and your body. Well, even if it’s not perfect, but do you really have no other virtues and qualities that put you above all these anorexic girls?
Of course, the aforementioned is far from all the tools by which we harm ourselves. Do not forget about such "catastrophic" dependencies, such as, for example, the use of alcohol and drugs. But these two problems are so serious that healing from them is impossible on their own (with rare exceptions) - you will not be able to manage one willpower and self-hypnosis practices here.