These Bad Habits are killing you

Please quit them before it’s too late

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Prologue

Imagine yourself in a dying bed and being bedridden. You have severe stomach pain. You are unable to take food. The only form of food is fluids given by doctors.

You can’t get up from the bed. Your condition is so helpless that you may die. You die a very painful death with a poor quality of life. You have to undergo an operation to save yourself. Even after undergoing an operation, you have to lead a poor quality of life. You, my friend, are suffering from acute pancreatitis.

You start realizing why you started drinking alcohol and smoking in the first place, despite knowing the fact that they are injurious to health.

I, as a 4th-year medical student, have seen many patients in my college hospital suffering from this disease called acute pancreatitis. All the medical histories of these patients point to one thing in common: alcohol and smoking.

Reasons people start these bad habits in the first place

1. Is it due to stress?

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If stress is the answer, try coping by doing different things.

Namely, watching movies, talking to loved ones, and writing articles like this. But never indulge in smoking and drinking.

2. Is it due to peer pressure?

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A lot of my friends give unsolicited advice. You need not take them seriously. A lot of people start drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes to fit in high-class societies.

Peer pressure is more pronounced in teenagers. Most of the people start drinking and smoking in their teenage years.

Solution

It is the duty of parents and of themselves to consider the consequences of this. Parents must be strict, protect their children from bad influences, monitor their children's company, and try to spend quality time with them. Also, create awareness about this.

If you’re in your teenage years, please listen to me as your elder brother. I have seen countless people dying due to Liver failure and pancreatitis, mainly due to this addiction. No amount of alcohol and smoking is safe.

Don’t try these things. Try better ways to cope with stress and be mindful. This is how I am trying to overcome my scrolling addiction. Wait 15 minutes to see if you still have the craving; if you do, wait another 15 Minutes. Be mindful of what you’re doing.

Don’t try to fit in. In life, you have at most 5 friends who support you. If they are truly your friends, they won’t encourage you to indulge even if they have these bad habits. The message is not that you should not make friends with people who drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes. Yes, there are good friends of mine who indulge in these activities.

3. Wanna have alcohol and smoke a few cigarettes after long hours of work?

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No! I have seen a lot of people doing these. I also have this particular bad habit of scrolling through Instagram after work. The key is to be mindful of what you’re doing. I try to control my urge to scroll through Instagram after a long study session. The key is to wait a few minutes and try to replace it with other activities, as I already mentioned.

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I have my addiction, such as scrolling through Instagram. I am trying to overcome it by replacing it with other activities, such as writing articles and reading novels. Try to replace these activities with other activities.

And one more thing: I think about the consequences of scrolling on Instagram for too long, such as wasting my productive time and sleep. And had an awful migraine the next day. I try to create articles in my free time, which is a better activity.

Conclusion

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Stop drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes for your family and loved ones, and to lead a comfortable and active life, or else you would be bedridden by disease like cirrhosis of the liver or acute pancreatitis ( inflammation of the pancreas), and may die.