Taking care of yourself is NO JOKE... I see so many students smoking-I always ask them why they are smoking. I think the most bizarre answer I've gotten to date was "to stay thin"-would someone PLEASE explain that to me? If you wore your lungs on the outside of your body you would NOT smoke-believe that!
Doing drugs (which of course includes alcohol and nicotine) is unfortunately a rite of passage for many adolescents and young adults. I always tell my clients and students to live in the present but don't forget that the future will come soon enough and you really do want to think twice about what you are doing-especially if your head is up your butt...
Healthy Liver - Liver with Cirrosis
So if all of these lovely body parts were actually outside of your body-like on your arm or your shirt or on the top of your head like a hat, would you continue drinking, smoking, and doing drugs? My guess is HELL NO!
I'll wear my lungs like a bikini and look damn sexy (ok, maybe that's a stretch),
Professor Val
I'll wear my lungs like a bikini and look damn sexy (ok, maybe that's a stretch),
Professor Val
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3 comments:
I think that adolescents go through a period of time where they try to figure out who they are and where they fit in. Sometimes, you are exposed to things and try them because its available and what the hell, everyone else is doing it. Is it really worth it? For people that want to fit in, anything is. Do I smoke..Yes! Have I tried marijuana and alcohol..Yes! It is normal but an addiction can easily follow. I think some people have to see the effects happen to someone close to understand what it can really do. Also, I can't help but wonder who is funding these habits? They are all so expensive. Parents should take a better role in protecting their children. I see parents all the time pass out money and do not even wonder what it is for. Come on! Children have an invincible feeling until they reach about 21 and even then it may not hit them. You can only educate them..you can't really stop them.
I've never had any desire to try smoking or drinking (except champagne and wine on special occasions like marriages). My father has been drinking and smoking since he's been 12 and he's almost 58 now. He's Greek, so it's part of the culture I guess for all the Greek men to gather 'round the dinner table at get-togethers and fill up the room with smoke. He's even had a couple angioplasties (I believe that's what they were) a couple years ago and the entire time he was in the hospital he was angry because he was not allowed to smoke. He even had a friend die of lung cancer about two decades ago but he only quite temporarily. He even tried the patch and that worked a for a little while. Some people, no matter what, believe that they're invincible and that they'll get to be one of those 90 year olds that can still smoke with no major problems. My father is one of them.
I have been trying to quit smoking for a while-after reading that and seeing those lungs and imagining the lungs on the outside of my body where other people would see them, I am definitely going to quit. Thats just rank nasty!
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