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DID YOU KNOW that over 70% of smokers want to quit?
Welcome to part two of our three-part series on just that: quitting smoking. We know that the journey to giving up can be a challenge, so while last time we focused on motivation to give up, this week we’re going to look ahead to the benefits.
We all know the hard facts: tobacco kills 50% of its users. That can be a difficult thing to wrap your head around in a real way – so here are some of the more everyday, tangible ways your life will improve when you drop cigarettes.
No more stinky hair. Or car, or clothes, or furnishings… The list goes on. If you give the cigarettes the boot, you’ll wind up smelling a lot better.
And not only will you yourself smell more fragrant, but your sense of smell (and therefore taste) should slowly return to its previous strength, too. That means your food will get tastier. Win.
Smoking adversely affects your skin, making it drier and more prone to wrinkles. Your hair and skin will improve in quality when you kick the habit, and you will no longer have stained fingernails – and you’ll nip your yellowing teeth in the bud.
Stopping smoking gives you back a sense of control over your actions. No longer are you bound to your hourly smoke breaks, or feeling like you have to cut conversations short because you need to go outside for a cigarette. It’s back to just you calling the shots, not the cigarettes.
Many smokers report suffering from a persistent cough. With your lung capacity improving by up to 10% within nine months of quitting, you’ll breathe much easier.
Quitting improves your body’s bloodflow, meaning it increases sensitivity – which means stopping smoking could improve both men and women’s sex lives. Not only that, but non-smokers are THREE times more appealing than smokers to prospective partners.
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I am just back from Helsinki and funny how they can manage to have trams run 24/7.
@Sean: berlin too
the mind boggles
@Sean: They have more trams maybe?
@Sean: that’s a lie. They run just after midnight leaving time for essential maintence. Why would you like that?
@Sean: You’re wrong you know.
In Helsinki they operate between 05:30 to 23:30 on weekdays and 07:00 to 23:30 at weekends so actually less hours than Luas.
@Brianto: And not just recently. They have operated 24 / 7 since ever.
I can only dream then of taking my life in my hands by getting a red line Luas at 3am. It’s hairy enough already at 3pm in the day with its current lack of adequate policing.
@Longlin: on the Green line we don’t have that issue, so i suggest 24/7 on Green Line only.
Strange how other cities manage to operate a 24 service, p New York, Chicago, Copenhagen, Melbourne and Tokyo all provide 24 hour transport services to a much wider metropolitan area then Dublin. We really can’t do anything right here. At the very least a late night if not 24 hour service with additional frequency and extended weekend hours should be available on all forms of transport. How on earth is maintenance required every night?
@Heather Knowles: I assume it’s because those cities have more alternative lines during maintenance
@Heather Knowles: because those countries don’t find a problem for every solution, here unfortunately some people have a problem for every solution
@Thomas O’ Donnell: Normally a bus service will replace the tram/train service whilst maintenance is been carried out here in Melbourne
More trains then
Is maintenance carried out every single night? The nights they have to do maintenance they can have a bus service follow the route like the trains do when they’re getting repaired ?
@Ryan O’Rourke: If only they had implemented a priority bus corridor instead. Then we wouldn’t have these issues and multiple bus routes could be implemented using it
I wanna cry. The hopeless of our country. A real no can do attitude.
We get presented with problems – never solutions.
Been all over Europe. Out public transport is the shame of Europe.
I beg the politicians and the unions, that for once, please just once actually deliver us, the people, a public transport that we can be proud of.
You make us ashamed to he Irish.
@Chris Curran: “We get presented with problems, never solutions”. Just like The Journal comments section then.
@sean o’dhubhghaill: Don’t agree.
Our politicians are truly hopeless. No innovation. No leadership. No vision for what the country could be. It’s all about keeping their seats and towing the party party line.
Our planners are conservative, with many passed their sell by dates. In Dublin, four local authorities agree and implement four different county development plans led by planners.
I’m not just describing the problem, I’ve been there, done that and walked away because of party handcuffs.
Dublin needs an exectutive mayor free of party handcuffs to enable a vision to come forward.
Is there only 1 tram? Surely some sort of maintenance rota could be devised combined with somewhat reduced services during the overnight hours.
Is there anything we can do in this country?? How do other countries manage? It’s just a disgrace our lack of decent public transport
With the amount of Taxes that we are paying, it should be a right to get better transport for all Citizens.
Could they please put the Luas underground? Reclaim the streets!
@François Pignon: “Síos” maybe?!
In fairness could you imagine the madness of the Red Line at 2AM in the morning?
Past 1am?? Was trying to get out of town on a Saturday night few wks ago last tram through town passed at 11.15pm??
Surely there be less trams on through the night less than half I imagine so can rotate them easily each night Surely they don’t need maintenance after each day if they do something is wrong
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