Smoking is a dangerous lifestyle because it exposes users to serious medical conditions, like coronary heart disease, cancer, and even death. People have been researching safer and better alternatives to smoking regular cigarettes. When electronic cigarettes were introduced, many people switched to vaping because e-cig companies advertised that they were less harmful compared to regular cigarettes. It is important to note that most of these electronic cigarettes contain nicotine and therefore are not completely harmless, as advertised. However, there are some options that are nicotine-free and are less toxic. Apart from vaping, there are other safer alternatives to regular smoking, such as menthol cigarettes, herbal cigarettes, clove cigarettes (kreteks), cigars and little cigars, hookahs (water pipes), and bidis (flavored cigarettes). This article highlights several advantages of vaping compared to regular smoking.

Helps to quit smoking

Research shows that many smokers are unaware of the health risks that come with smoking. Those who do know these risks try to quit before they are completely addicted. Switching to vaping from regular cigarettes has proven to help smokers quit. Electronic cigarettes have less chemicals because you inhale vapor as compared to tobacco smoke. This fact helps those who want to fight the addiction to be able to do so gradually.

Reduces the risk of cancer

Smoking cigarettes has been established as the major cause of lung cancer. The tobacco found in regular cigarettes produces tar and carcinogens, which cause cancer. Inhaling these substances immediately causes changes in the lung tissues. At first, the body is able to fight them off, but the immunity to these factors eventually goes down. Using e-cigarettes reduces the risk of cancer because they do not use tobacco; hence, the harmful substances are not emitted to the lungs. There are also nicotine-free vaping juices that work well for those who don’t want to be exposed to nicotine, which is addictive.

Environmentally friendly

Electronic cigarettes are friendly to the environment because they are not regularly disposed off. Most regular smokers throw away cigarette butts wherever they are seated. This degrades the environment, and people are advised against such actions. The e-cig toolkit contains a mouthpiece, heating element, rechargeable battery, sensor, and e-juice. After use, the components are cleaned and stored properly. There are also disposable e-cigars that can be purchased at ePuffer.

Flavors

Regular cigarettes contain tobacco, which gives off an unpleasant smell. Smokers can be distinguished from non-smokers because of this pungent odor. With the introduction of vaping, vapers are able to enjoy all types of assorted flavors. These flavors include but are not limited to mint, fruit flavors, and candy. Flavors also make smoking for non-smokers bearable because instead of the awful smell of tobacco, they are able to smell sweet flavors.

Less risk of fire

As mentioned earlier, regular cigarettes are carelessly thrown away, and sometimes they are not completely put out. These leftover pieces can start a fire and thus cause serious damage to people and property. While electronic cigarettes are not completely harmless, they pose less of a risk for fire as compared to their cigarette counterparts.

Conclusion

Although more research needs to be carried out, electronic cigarettes are perceived as a safer alternative to regular smoking. People who do not smoke, however, should not start vaping just because it is viewed as safer. Regular smokers are advised to switch to nicotine-free vaping to help them eventually quit.

With 2019 in full swing, many of us have a lot of New Year’s resolutions. One of them might be to become healthier. The thing is that many people associate being healthy with a healthy diet and a gym membership, but in truth there is more to it than just that. Here are some ideas that can help you to become healthier even if you eat healthy and go to gym regularly:

1. Travel somewhere from time to time. Traveling broadens your horizons and is very good for you, especially for your adrenal glands. As Dr. Eric Berg says in his videos, you need to give yourself some space. So do it, even if it means traveling for one day if you cannot afford to take longer holidays. Even one day can already make a huge difference in terms of your well being.

2. De-clutter your home. Many people find it liberating to get rid of some of the belongings, or at least being able to store them in a place such as storage units san antonio. Even if you don’t feel like giving everything away, the least you can do is to place the items you don’t need in a storage unit so that you can easily come back to them latter when you need them.

3. Visit somebody you haven’t seen in a while and somebody who might not be expecting you. Maybe an old auntie you haven’t seen in years who has nobody to talk to and lives in a nursing home? A lot of people tend to feel lonely these days, so surprising them with a visit might be a very good thing to do you will not regret. Not only will it make them feel better, but it will make you happy as well, because making others happy has a positive effect on your health.

4. Cook a healthy recipe in your home so that you don’t have to go to a restaurant. This is just another way to become healthier this year.

Having lived with the good doctor Ryan Shephard for a number of years now I feel as though I know as much about emergency services as he does, well perhaps not quite as much. What I do know about however is that a shift in ER is intense and filled with arrested patients, blood and gore, cuts and grazes, worried family members, tears, tantrums and catastrophes. What I also know is that the men and women who work there each and every day deserve medals. I was chatting with Ryan last month about how he and the others find ways to relax and so he did a little bit of covert digging for me and here is what he found out.

Cooking

Many of his colleagues told him that the most relaxing thing that they could do was to cook a recipe on their day off. This seems very strange given that cooking is potentially one of the most stressful things that I do, but each to their own of course. The men and women who spoke about their love for cooking said that they would usually pick a complicated dish to complete which requires a lot of their time and energy in order to make it just right.

Boxing

An overwhelming number of the staff at the ER where Ryan works told him that they love nothing more than finishing a shift and then going to the gym to box holes in the punchbag. I can imagine that over the course of a shift there must be an awful lot of pent up aggression so to go and destroy a punchbag afterwards does appear to something that is completely normal.

Meditation

I knew that Ryan relied quite heavily on meditation to make sure that he was in a good headspace for his upcoming shift and to be honest I always assumed that the majority of hospital workers would be exactly the same. Somewhat surprisingly there were a very low number of staff who said that meditation helped them to unwind. There were still some who said that meditation helped them however and that some even took advantage of the odd quiet moment in the hospital during their shift to take some much needed quiet time.

Musical Instruments

The number of staff at the hospital who play musical instruments is incredible and I had no idea that medicine and music were so aligned. The majority of those who can play a musical instrument said that this was the way in which they chilled out at the end of a busy day. I guess if you consider things like dexterity and the fact that to play a musical instrument you need to be good with your hands, much like working in medicine. One of the doctors even charges some of the residents for lessons!

Do you know any medical staff, how do they like to unwind at the end of a long and stressful day? Let us know in the comments.

I moved to Arizona this time last year and on my first day we met our closest neighbors Roger Olade and his beautiful family. Over the last year I have grown quite close to Roger and it is fascinating to see what doctors are like away from the hospital. Dr. Olade specializes in internal medicine her in Arizona, although he can turn his hand to quite a number of medical branches, he even helped me to take action against my back when I was in terrible pain with a muscle injury. Not many of us have the chance to see the real person behind the medial gown, so I thought that I’d offer an insight based on my experience.

Emotional

We all think about doctors as being almost robotic in the way that they treat patients, viewing them in the same way that an electrician would view a fuse box, with absolute pragmatism and zero emotion. This however is not the case and what many doctors do is to push the emotions to one side whilst they carry out their duty. The problem with this is that those emotions must be dealt with at some time or another and I have had lengthy chats with Roger about this and how he often struggles with the emotional pressure that he is under.

Studious

I innocently thought that when doctors had completed medical school that their studies were over, but this is simply not the case. In fact I cannot tell you how many times I have seen Roger in his study in the wee small hours, and when I have asked him why he still studies, he tells me that he has to. The reason for this is that there are always new and exciting treatments in how we deal with diseases and disorders and doctors must stay on top of this new information in order to help their patients as much as possible.

Fatigue

We all know that doctors must work very long hours but what many of us don’t see is the impact that these long hours have on our medical professionals. I have spoken to Roger on a number of occasions where he has barely even known what day of the week that it is. Of course he is always rearing to go when he is at work and fatigue rarely affects him then, but when he comes home after work I see the other side of him, the side that is tried beyond belief. Worse still, Roger will often talk to me about how during these bouts of extreme fatigue, he often struggles to actually get to sleep because his brain is so wired because of what has gone on at the hospital.

Doctors are very well respected and they certainly should be, especially when you realize what goes on once they have clocked out and go home, truly remarkable human beings.

If you are looking to fix your smile and re-arrange crooked teeth then you will have a couple of options in front of you. Speaking to your dentist about this subject will see them offer you one of three options in most cases which are veneers, Invisalign or something similar or alternatively dental braces. It is the latter option which we are going to focus on today, metal braces. To give us some more insight on this I spoke with super dentist Kami Hoss, who has offered this treatment to thousands throughout his career, in order to find out what the pros and cons are of this kind of treatment.

Pros

Lets’ get started with the positives about this kind of treatment in terms of giving you the smile that you have always wanted.

It Works – The best thing that anyone can say about dental braces is that they actually work and they have helped hundreds of thousands of people over the years to get the smile that they wanted and to rearrange their teeth.

Cheaper – When we compare the three options that you will be offered in terms of sorting out your teeth, dental braces are far and away the cheapest of the three options.

All Ages – The notion that only children’s teeth can be affected by braces is wrong and they can be used on patients of all ages and still have a great effect on adults. Use on children will brig about much faster results but that is not to say that it cannot work on adults because it certainly does.

Cons

This is a fantastic treatment which can help you out but there are some aspects of the treatment which not everybody loves, let’s take a look.

Unsightly – From an aesthetics point of view there are many who do not like the idea of having these metal braces adorning their teeth and it can put a lot of people off this kind of treatment.

Painful – Dental braces can cause you some pain especially when the teeth begin to slowly move into new positions. The pain is never intense but more of a slow ache which many people complain about. Furthermore you may ave some pain with the ends of the wire, which can occasionally catch the inside of the mouth, and sometimes it will even cut it.

Slow –  In comparison to the other options that you have in front of you the dental braces option is certainly the slowest. For many people who want an instant fix this is an option which is unlikely to be for you as it does require some patience. Over the course of your treatment the dentist will seek to move the brackets in order to move your teeth into better places, and this is why the process can be lengthy.

And there you have it, the pros and cons of using dental braces, would you use them?