Research Paradigms Name: Institution: Course: Date: Research Paradigms Smoking is a habit that affects the health of the patient in more ways than one. One of the ways that smoking affects the health of the smoker is through developing cardiovascular diseases. It is common among the smokers to develop diseases such as coronary heart disease as well as stroke. Smoking is a habit that tends to have some detrimental health effects to the body (www.bhf.org.uk, 2016). It is for this reason that smokers are twice more likely to get heart attacks than the rest of the population who have never smoked. Smoking tends to affect the lining of the arteries causing fatty material buildup which causes narrowing of the arteries in question (www.bhf.org.uk, 2016).When the arteries are narrow, the patient is more likely to develop stroke, heart attacks and in some cases angina. This is part
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