Hyderabad:Three bogies of a Peshawar bound Khush Hal Khan Khatak Express train derailed when a bomb planted on track exploded in Tangwani area of Kandhkot district, disrupting railway traffic in the area.
Sources said that Frontier Corps officials were also travelling in the train along with other passengers and the blast was apparently planted to target the FC officials.
Police and rescue workers rushed to the spot and recovered the trapped passengers. The sources said that a woman received minor injuries.
If we take a fatalistic view of life, nothing is important. However, deep down inside, we feel that even though our life is finite, we can accomplish much. It is this desire to live a long, healthy life with our friends and loved ones that can provide a motivation to quit smoking.
Many smokers feel that they are the masters of their own destiny and that they could quit smoking anytime they want, but then they convince themselves that they enjoy smoking and that they will not quit today. As time passes, the habit becomes ingrained until it becomes a lifestyle and an addiction that causes physical discomfort if stopped.
Why did you start smoking?
Every pack of cigarettes has a warning from the Surgeon General stating that smoking can be harmful to your health. You are not stupid. You understand this. You feel the harmful effects every time that you cough or have a sore throat, but this has not stopped you from smoking. Why? Because the reasons for smoking are mostly psychological. People are seduced to try tobacco by the glamorization of smoking in the movies and in advertisements. Addiction to nicotine makes it hard to quit smoking once you have started, but this addiction can be overcome in two weeks once the psychological reasons for smoking are eliminated.
Why do you smoke now?
You have been smoking for a while and you have matured. Now you know that smoking has not made you smarter, or cooler, or sexier. Smoking has not helped you to achieve your goals. Your accomplishments have been made in spite of smoking, but you are more aware that your health suffers. You can tell by your burning eyes, your hacking cough, and the phlegm in your throat. So, why do you still smoke?
Health Risks of Smoking:
Smoking is one of the main causes of serious health diseases, such as cancer, stroke and heart problems. If you have no plans of quitting today, having knowledge of the different types of illnesses that you may experience through years of smoking may change your perception and lead you to stop smoking.
how to stop smoking cigarettes:
Step s:
1-Think About Quitting According to a recent survey, around 15 million smokers try to quit smoking each day. However, less than 3% of these people stop smoking successfully for 3 to 12 months. If you’re thinking about quitting or have stopped smoking but failed to quit, don’t lose hope because smokers often try to quit more than once before they actually succeed.
2-Think about What You Owe Yourself and Others. You owe yourself and your loved ones a long and high quality life. So you need to seek and choose the things that are truly good for you such as sound nutrition and fitness and avoid those things like smoking that are truly bad for you. You deserve good health and life and must go through stop smoking permanently to achieve it.
3-Compute the Financial Costs of Smoking.The average cost of a pack of cigarettes in the U.S. is about $4.80 in December 2009. These costs seem to always go up and never down, so let’s use your cost over the next several years as $5.00 a pack. That’s $50 per week for those who smoke 10 packs a week and totals $2,600 a year and $26,000 over 10 years. That’s just the direct cost to you. The costs to the healthcare system and to employers are staggering – many billions of dollars per year.
4-Preparing To Quit Smoking The first key to quitting smoking successfully is planning and preparation. You need to prepare your body and mind before actually quitting. Determine your personal goals, discover your reasons for quitting and get rid of temptations that may become a hindrance to your stop smoking program. Tobacco smoke contains nicotine, a drug that is addictive and can make it very hard, but not impossible, to quit.
5-Choose a Realistic Smoking Cessation Date. In conjunction with the cessation program you’ve chosen, select a realistic date for quitting. Marshal your motivation, mentality, and environment to peak on and support the quit date.
6-Implement Your Plan. The fulfillment of all your preparation and your personal or group smoking cessation program is the day you stop smoking permanently. Begin that day to gradually eat more healthful food and to gradually increase your physical activity, all with your doctor’s approval, of course. Drink several glasses of water each day and sip water or chew gum when the desire to smoke is strong. Go for a short walk if that’s what it takes to get over the urge. Picture yourself as a non-smoker and constantly review your strongest motives to quit.
7-Reap the Benefits of Quitting Smoking. The main benefits of smoking cessation are a longer and higher quality life and lower risks of cancer, heart attack and stroke compared to people who continue to smoke. It’s hard to stop smoking but you can do it with thorough preparation, motivation, a good plan, and the proper frame of mind.
Smoking is defined as the act of smelling or inhaling the smoke of a substance, mostly tobacco. There are many reasons for doing so, the most common being cultural reasons or peer pressure. Cigarettes, pipes and hookahs are the most popular methods of smoking and hence also the most injurious smoking elements for health.
It is very important for all those who smoke to keep it in mind that smoking is injurious to health. Smoking has been known to cause many problems. Not only is it a major cause of pollution but it also is one of the leading causes of premature death in developed countries.
It is very essential to know exactly how smoking is injurious to health. Once you have the understanding of how it affects your health, then you are able to counter its affects on the body. Smoking can lead to many kinds of heart and lung diseases, two of the most essential organs of the human body.
Different kinds of cancer are caused by smoking, the most common being lung and throat cancer. Smoking can also decrease the body's immunity system. Due to this, a smoker is more prone to diseases such as bronchitis and pneumonia as compared to a nonsmoker. The commonly used slogans to educate people that smoking is injurious to health are usually right. On an estimated average, smoking takes away between 5 to 20 minutes of a person's lifespan with every cigarette.
Smoking can cause weaker bones and yellow teeth. Wrinkling and bad skin can also occur with time. Stamina is also reduced due to decreased blood circulation leading rapid heartbeat and shortage of breath. There are also many other day to day issues related with smoking such as bad breath as well as bad smell from hair and hands.
The human body knows that smoking is injurious to health; therefore, it tries to counter it at the start. That is why coughing, sore throat, nausea and other negative feelings are aroused in the body when a person tries to smoke the first time.
As you know smoking is injurious to health, the best ay to safegaurd your self is the protection. Try to stay away from smoking elements to gaurd your health against smoking injuriousness.
In all the blitz of news this week, there was a remarkable story that the largest ever heroin cache had been seized in the country’s history – a whooping 375kg, worth an estimated $44 million. Indeed, this is a job well-executed on the part of the Anti-Narcotics Force, but this whole episode should serve to open the box on heroin drug use in Pakistan, rather than just a mere round of applause.
To give a short history of heroin use in Pakistan, this menace came into prominence in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Domestic cultivation of poppy in Pakistan started to decline from the 90s, from a peak level of 9,4441 hectares in 1992 to a ‘poppy-free’ status in 2000, but since 2003, the cultivation has again picked up pace. The problematic areas are concentrated in FATA, and concerns about losing community acquiescence in the counter-terrorism operations coupled with a lack of security forces, are crucial factors hampering eradication efforts.
The fact that 70 per cent of Afghanistan’s poppy is grown in five provinces along the border with Pakistan, only helps to add fuel to the fire. Pakistan acts as a major transit conduit for Afghanistan, with the border being too rugged and porous for a fully effective control policy to be implemented.
A UN Drug Survey completed in 2000 estimated almost half a million chronic heroin users in Pakistan. No doubt this number would have swelled in conjunction with our mushrooming population, but some experts argue that the opiate abusing population in Pakistan has reached a plateau. Even if this is the case, this is still a cause for concern, as a deeper look at the heroin abusing populace reveals a truly frightening picture.
Cause of grave concern
One would imagine that it is the downtrodden and destitute in our society, who fill up the ranks of the drug addicts in Pakistan. However, it is exactly the opposite, with research showing that as high as 60 per cent of the addicts belong to the educated class, with a majority of them being university students. This is a cause of grave concern, as we are losing out on the brightest and best amongst us to the menace of drug use.
The other frightening fact that emerges is that the phenomenon of injection drug use has doubled in Pakistan in the last ten years. Not surprisingly, this coincides with concentrated HIV/AIDS epidemics in the country as a result of sharing of infected needles along with other high-risk behaviour. This even more precarious direction that the drug addicts are taking only helps to already stretch an over-stretched and ill-equipped health-care system.
Urgent measures to be taken
Therefore, there is an urgent and critical need for a comprehensive strategy to combat heroin drug use in Pakistan. This has to be a multi-tiered approach, focusing on all aspects. Undoubtedly, the way to tackle heroin originating from Afghanistan entails stringent check and control measures, with the Anti-Narcotics Force being given more equipment along with more manpower. This should be the easy part.
Taking on the heroin challenge inside Pakistan entails a broader strategy. Wooing students off drugs means providing other avenues of fun and opportunity, this may come from offering increased recreational opportunities, be in the garb of sports facilities or cinemas. The spectre of unemployment and lack of job opportunities also needs to be brought into the equation, as they are also crucial factors that force educated youth into the pit of drug abuse.
Pakistan is in a special demographic transition phase currently, with youth comprising a major chunk of the populace. This limitless potential could easily fall prey to the menace of drug use, and prompt action is needed to stop this from happening. The Anti-Narcotics Force should only be a mere small cog in the scheme of things combating drug use in Pakistan, as time and again it has been shown, prevention is much better and less costlier than the cure.
