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What Are The Effects Of Smoking
On Sleep?
Some
people make it a habit of taking a puff or two before going
to bed. And
this is precisely something that should not be. A smoke or
two before going to bed is the worst thing you can do when
your brain is just preparing for much needed rest. The
nicotine that you inhaled goes straight to the sleep centers
of your brain and then everything goes haywire. The result
is that you have a bad night’s rest.
In the morning, you wake up feeling anything but refreshed
and the only way to take away that feeling is by having another
smoke. Below, I am going to discuss sleep in general and
when you alter your lifestyle and habits, it would be good
if you could include these pointers in your sleep routine as
well. You see, everything is connected; your eating patterns,
your sleep patterns and everything. So if you are not doing
any of these things right, you might just bounce back into
becoming a smoker.
The National Sleep Foundation reports
that America is on the verge of a poor sleep epidemic, characterized
by the following eye-opening statistics:
- 64% of American
adults get less than the eight hours of sleep that experts
recommend is required to maintain optimal physical, mental,
and emotional health.
- One-third of the US population
says they get less sleep now than they did five years ago
- One-half of Americans have
experienced insomnia (sleeplessness)
- Drowsiness due to a lack of
a proper night of sleep interferes with the daily activities
of 37 percent of all adults.
Amazed? Well,
you should be. Sleep has become a critical issue as far as
most adults are concerned.
The following
is an excerpt from "Sleep: Essential for Optimal
Health" by Drs. Robert Goldman and Ronald Klatz.
"Don't
slight sleep. It's when you're tired that you tend to overwork.
When you're rested you can finish the work without strain
and still have energy and time left over for the rest of
your life. Research shows that workers who get less than
six hours of sleep a night are prone to costly accidents,
poor concentration and poor performance. Without sleep
depression, anxiety and anger increase. The quality of
sleep is just as important as number of hours. If you have
trouble sleeping, try going to bed earlier, before 10:00.
This usually creates a deeper sleep. Prepare for deep sleep
by avoiding TV and computers in the evening."
You know what
is funny about sleep? Most people believe that sleep is something
that the body will take care of by itself. They feel that
their bodies will give them signals when it wants sleep.
That maybe true, but the question here is, do these people
know how to read or sense these signals that the body is
trying to give them.
If such people
think that the tendency to nod off to sleep while working
or driving is the signal that their bodies are going to give
them, then they are mistaken. The body starts by giving subtle
signals like dark circles around the eyes, listless eyes,
a general lethargy, a lack of interest in everything, unwarranted
yawns, poor performance and so on. But of course, most of
these ‘symptoms’ can be washed away with a cup of coffee
or a puff of nicotine.
Again let us
go back to the lower animals. Look around you and you will
find that most animals are sensible enough to get the
sleep that they need. Whether it's horses, or cows or dogs
or cats (cats the most) they sleep when they want to, and
that is probably why they are more wiry and energetic than
humans.
You won’t find
a dog sitting up half the night to watch a ball game, nor
would you find a cat browsing the net all night long. An
important point that most people do not know is that our
bodies are influenced or governed by what experts call circadian
cycles. These are cycles of sleep, rest and activity that
are in fact governed by sunlight and darkness.
You might have
seen certain plants that let their leaves droop
in the evening and then revive them in the morning. Just
like this, our bodies too are influenced by light and darkness.
For
every stimulus there should be a response. Here the stimulus
is darkness so the response must be to sleep. Thankfully
however, our bodies do not really need 12 hours of sleep.
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