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The Unhealthy Alliance Of Stress, Headache And Smoking |
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As you age, the stress level also increases
due to a variety of situations you have to face. If you are facing such
situations for the first time in life, naturally the intensity of the
stress is more. When you become more experienced to handle such
situations, gradually the stress level decreases.
You, as a youngster, start smoking for fun initially. Fun or no
fun, nicotine is such a hard addiction, that it won’t spare anyone. Soon
your habit dominates you. You can’t give up smoking. The guilty feeling
haunts you because you know the disadvantages of smoking. You know its
capabilities to cause serious damages to important parts of your body
like heart and liver. You are warned from all sides against your smoking
habit but you are helpless. You are the slave of nicotine and that
causes
you stress. This type of stress could be the cause of severe
headache. Your personality is tossed in between these situations. For
most smokers, the unpleasant game of musical chair between stress,
headache and smoking continues.
The peculiarity of the stress
headaches is that they begin to attack you slowly. You feel dullness
with pain on both sides of the head, which is the indication of
beginning of the stress headache.
Pain associated with the stress
headache is difficult to cope. With the help of the descriptions that
you give, your physician will be able to identify the type of headache
you are suffering from. If the descriptions given by you arouse any
suspicion in the mind of the physician, he may ask you to undergo tests
like blood test, brain scan or x- rays.
The more you are into the smoking habit, the more room you will
give for stress and headache. Since smoking is your daily exercise now,
stress and headache are also your permanent companions. Here is the
chance of your slipping into the addiction of taking over the counter
medications for curing your hopeless position.
These medications again are tricky, they are not sincere to the cause
for which they are supposed to have been manufactured and thus you are
entrapped into a vicious circle.
The only option that can save
you in this situation is the positive lifestyle change such as eating
right, doing regular exercises and drastically reducing your smoking, if
not give up altogether. You have no other alternative, but to improve
your habits.
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