What is better, to buy Fruits or Cigarettes
A new investigation which sees smokers paid £12.50 a week for trying to quit the habit is showing encouraging early results, according to NHS.
In an attempt to lower the number of people becoming addicted of cigarettes and also that of the people dying because smoking-related disease, researchers gave to a group of smokers (360 people) electronic cards with money which they could use to buy groceries if they pass a weekly breath test.
They were not allowed to purchase cigarettes or alcohol with the money.
This study has been running for three months and only 20 to 30 people were asked to join each week.
Audrey Gordon, who is one of those on the 12-week experiment, said: “This is the first time that I’ve seriously tried to stop smoking, and I’m not saying I did it the first time because I’ve had a little bit of a relapse, but the past few weeks I’ve been fantastic at it.”
Philip Neave is another participant who has not managed to give up but has cut down from about 25 cigarettes a day to about 10 a week.
He said: “It’s a big motive for me because I’m not working at the moment so there’s not much money going about, so that £12.50 is a big incentive. It was hard at first taking the test every week but I find it quite easy now.”
He added: “It’s a strange time, quitting smoking, because you always think to yourself that once you have quit, you will reward yourself by smoking. There’s no logic to this.”
Dr. Paul Ballard, from NHS, said: “We worked with local people to find out what would motivate them to quit smoking and using the message, ‘You’ll be healthier for longer’ clearly wasn’t going to work, what was important to them was putting food on the table. The figures that are coming through are showing that it’s very successful.”
At the end of the investigation, researchers found that from food and cigarettes, more smokers used food, especially fruits and vegetables, instead cigarettes. Fruits consist of certain nutrients & vitamins such as Vitamin A, C, E, potassium etc. These can lower the risk of having heart diseases, strokes, kidney problems and more.
The result of this new study shows us once again that smoking can be defeated by food, healthy food.
Everyone wants to stay healthy so that they can spend more happy times with their loved ones, creating more monumental memories.
That does why always, never, ever try smoking and drugs if you value your life well. Cigarettes & drugs are slow-reacting poison that will degrade your health as time passes.
