Smokers: Stop Being So Mad

I've never smoked a cigarette in my life. From time to time I'll have a cigar, but the next morning, I regret it with that awful taste in my mouth.

When talking with smokers about why is it that they smoke and what benefit it gives them, one of the most common answers is that it relaxes them.

This article talks about a study that found that one solution to get people to stop smoking could be anger management classes.

The study states that when smokers were playing a video game and not wearing a nicotine patch, they were more likely to be aggressive in a task they could do after completing a round of the game compared to when they were wearing a nicotine patch and were less aggressive.

Which I think leads to the question: Are smokers just more angry compared to the rest of the population as a whole or, are non-smokers just finding different ways of releasing the aggression without smoking?

If I had to guess, I'd have to say it's the latter. For smokers, maybe having a cigarette was the first variable that they encountered when they started going through stress as a teen, and have basically just stuck with it. Maybe others that never smoked (but more than likely have gone through just a much stress as the normal smoking population) had other ways of managing that stress and aggression.

Or maybe there is something more to this that smokers in general are just a more aggressive group and their only outlet is a drag (is that term even used anymore?)

Oh, by the way, one activity that is a GREAT stress reliever and aggression killer is exercise...

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Recession and Healthy Lifestyle

This article is unfortunate in some ways but also fortunate in others.

Basically it goes into the fact that due to the current global recession, people are cutting back on buying healthy foods. This unfortunately is where the food companies that produce the junk have an upper hand because they hold the products that are cheaper. But I have to say, it's really not that much cheaper. I'll admit though that I've done the same thing of sorts by pulling back on organic products and settling for the non-organic. But, at least I'm going from an organic apple to a non-organic apple, not an apple to Oreos.

But, the article also states that at least in the UK, the number of people seeking help in trying to stop smoking is significantly higher. I'm guessing that people are looking at their essentials and noticing how much they can save by cutting out the smokes. Which the timing of this article ran fairly close to this article in the Detroit Free Press that stated the state hotline for people to get help to quit smoking was so high that it caused a logjam of callers to the point that the state had to publicize an additional phone number for people to call.

Don't let the recession hit you where it's going to hurt you in the long run. Eating healthy is what's going to keep you healthy and away from the doctor's office which in the end, could cost you more than buying those healthy foods.

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