Everybody around me was smoking. Peer pressure wasn’t the reason I started, but it was the reason I kept going. It all started with my friends and me in my neighborhood, that’s when the peer pressure kept pursuing my addiction. I was about 15 years old. It’s funny because when we were all kids I would say to my friends I wouldn’t smoke cigarettes ever, but really I did.
Since I was young I always thought we were recycling these items so that we would not fill the entire earth up with garbage as I remember being told in grade school and middle school. Well I guess that turns out not to be the case as she states in her article there is plenty of room in the United States for our trash. I feel like I have been lied to for years on this issue. In fact I seem to remember even being told by some teachers in school that we
The book Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse is one of the best books I have read in school. When I began reading it I did not understand the title, but as I read more I began to understand. Nyle is a young who cannot accept losses. Except when the accident in Cookshire took place she had to learn how to let go. Nyle’s Grandma allowed two evacuees, a mother and her very sick son, to settle in her house until the boy got better.
It was the last day of my junior year; it was a nice day and a great day because that meant it was pot smoking season again. Everyone was afraid to smoke during the school year due to the new East Peoria High School Athletic Code. Random drug tests administrated all year and if you were found polluted, it meant a sweet one-third of any sports season on the bench for a year. No one works hard all year to have to sit out of the only fun activities in high school, but athletic code directors and drug test administrators Lori Laredo and Ron Kelch were out to get anyone they could. I was tested once during the year, but there was some people that were tested up to four times, and if I may note, these were supposed to be random drug tests… there wasn’t anything random about them.
Middle Childhood Now knowing that I had Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as a child, I can make much more sense of the different ways I acted out in my elementary years, and why I was constantly viewed negatively by my peers and teachers. Although there has been much study to the connection between drug and alcohol use in pregnancy being a cause of ADHD in children, my mother never had a history of using either. However, there is also ongoing research in regards to ADHD as a result of high prenatal stress. Prior to my conception, my parents had tried unsuccessfully for 10 years to have children. Fortunately, once I was born, my
Behavior Change Contract Paper When I first read this week’s assignment it surprised me because I was already making a contract with myself to quit smoking. I currently smoke about a half a pack a day and I know that it is very unhealthy for me and the people around me. I currently just started a new job and do not have insurance at this time. The reason this is important is because I have tried to quit smoking on my own and failed too many times. With insurance I can get a drug called Chantix which helps blocks the sensors that make people enjoy smoking cigarettes.
There are two very bad decisions that Holden has in this book. One of which is his smoking habits, “I must have smoked about three cartons that day” (p.161). This quote took place when Holden had just come home but his parents did not know he was there. When he was reading Phoebe’s notebook he was starting to miss being home, that is when he started to feel sad and so he smoked, a lot. Only a teenager can really relate to this because Holden was not straight with his parents, every teenager has lied to their parents at some point.
“I was very honored but shocked when Mrs. Day told me I was a winner, especially when I heard I was the only one in the county,” said Green, a Hillview resident and the daughter of Tracey Green. “I wrote about different values I have — responsibility, integrity, respect, honesty, loving and caring — then wrote a paragraph on each, using myself as an example.” A concluding paragraph described a house fire her family experienced last year, and how it tested her values. “Even though I wanted to make the person feel bad for starting the fire, I knew I had to maintain my integrity,” she wrote. “Anyone would want to act in a rude, unloving, spiteful way, but this is where my morals were tested.” “It happened in February,” said Green, recalling the fire. “I was at school and Mom was at work, so no one was there but the dog — the hardest part was losing my dog.
However, despite his love for his family, Capone did have a number of mistresses over the years. Plus, unknown to him at the time, Capone contracted syphilis from a prostitute before he met Mae. Since the symptoms of syphilis can disappear quickly, Capone had no idea that he still had the sexually transmitted disease or that it would so greatly affect his health in later years. he unexpected death of Capone's father was a turning point of his personal life. It is believed that the sudden freedom from parental influence was the reason that he stopped trying to maintain a law abiding, respectable lifestyle.
He would tell my grandparents (my mothers parents) that his drug dependence snuck up on him. "I didn't choose to become an addict. I chose to experiment, to escape." I remember very vividly seeing this statement in the various police reports we have. Police were constantly in and out of our homes, many times taking my father with them.