Smoking cigarettes can be a good thing too

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The practice of smoking according to Wikipedia dates back to the year 5000 B.C. Smoking was initially done in many different ways throughout the world, for example in Greece, smoke was used as a healing practice and also Babylonians, Chinese, Indians, Israelites and later Catholic and Orthodox, Christian churches used smoke for religious rituals.

Smoking at first was displayed as something cool and therefore anyone regardless of their age could buy it and smoke it without any hassle. Smoking was allowed almost everywhere including in hospitals and all over town, in newspapers, magazines, TV and radio adverts on cigarettes were always frequent. Today, with so many researches on tobacco we’ve come to discover its negative effects on our health therefore now they are now many restrictions imposed on cigarette manufacturers.

According to kidshealth.org, a smoker of tobacco may suffer from long-term health problems like lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, emphysema and many other sorts of health problems. For many people nowadays, smoking tobacco is regarded by them as a bad thing to do because it only brings negative effects to our health, I used to think the same also but my opinion recently changed when I read an article in http://www.sott.net that spoke about the benefits of smoking tobacco. Yes! You got it right, the benefits! Am sure you never heard about them before like me because many medical pamphlets on tobacco only speak about the negative side of smoking tobacco.

Well according to this website, nicotine found in cigarettes reduces the risk of Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer; reduces the risk of all sort of effects of schizophrenia; it provides relief of common side effects from antipsychotic drugs; reduces the risk of getting obese; reduces the risk of acquiring certain inflammatory disorders; reduces the risk of pregnant women acquiring preeclampsia-an extremely common but deadly condition. Children of smokers were also found out by a study conducted in Sweden to have lower rates of allergic rhinitis, allergic asthma, atopic eczema, and food allergies.

Although smoking tobacco has some benefits also, it’s still recommended to avoid them or if you are already a smoker, to quit because the negative effects outnumber the positive ones.  Stay healthy, avoid cigarettes.

Sources:

·          http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_smoking;

·          http://www.sott.net/article/221013-Health-Benefits-of-Smoking-Tobacco;

·         http://m.kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smoking.html 

Article written by: Cristo Rutazihana

Reverse psychology, its power on people and relationships

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 Reverse psychology is simply a form manipulation used when you want someone to do or say something by just just simply saying the opposite of what you desire to say.

Knowing how to make use of the reverse psychology can be very useful in dealing with people or in relationships, for example, it can help parents deal with rebellious kids or a man/woman deal with a partner who loves to argue.  The effectiveness of the reverse psychology is not guaranteed in everyone, it is only certain in people who are rebellious plus it’s much easier to use when the targeted person is in an emotional state. For example if your partner doesn't want to do the house cleaning when you asking him to, don’t argue with him, simply say “fine, there is no need for you to clean it, let’s leave it the way it is, I want the people to see how filthy you are to live in a dirty house” that sort of reply will leave your partner thinking hard and eventually doing the chore because he will want to prove it to you that he can also be a clean person. Another example can be of a child who gets a F in a math test, if you tell the child you are dumb you don’t know anything, you are making the child believe that he truly is dumb and will never improve his grades but if you do the opposite, tell him that you are sure he will get an A the next math test if he studies, you will be creating a different effect on the child, you will make the child believe he can achieve the A score in the next math test once he studies more, he will eventually start studying more.

Power struggles in relationships are very common and usually none of the arguing parties want to lose the fight. The main purpose of the reverse psychology is to help minimize these unnecessary arguments in relationships and sustain them so that they can last longer.

Sources:

·        http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Reverse-Psychology;  

·        http://changingminds.org/techniques/general/more_methods/reverse_psychology.htm;

·         http://enzinearticles.com/?Using-Reverse-Psychology-In-Reationships&id=6913136   

Article Witten by : Cristo Rutazihana