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Snuff and memory

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

According to a recent study in France, smoking is not only harmful to the lungs and the cardiorespiratory system but also weakens the memory and reduced cognitive abilities.

This conclusion was a team from the National Institute of Health and Medical Research Vellejuif on the analysis of lifestyle habits of more than 4,600 people.

These participants were made to complete a regular basis, several tests in which we assessed memory, reasoning skills, vocabulary and verbal fluency.

Thus it was observed that individuals who were current smokers had poorer memory and reasoning skills than those who had never smoked in his life. Researchers also found that the risk of death was higher in smokers.

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Snuff and hearing

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Snuff and hearing

If you are a smoker, you know well that one of the best decisions they could take for the sake of your health is quit smoking. There are always more good reasons to quit smoking.

Smoking can be harmful to hearing. In a recent study by Yale University (United States) found that those adolescents who smoke or who somehow were exposed to cigarette smoke, having difficulties to distinguish and interpret sounds.

Studies have shown smokers alterations in brain areas responsible for the transmission of messages, so the researchers believe that nicotine causes disturbances in the structure of the cerebral substance in those areas, in fact, responsible for hearing.

Photonics anti-addiction therapy: new smoking cessation therapy

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Many snuff addicts trying to quit using all sorts of methods, some get it but a majority do not. The reality is that it takes willpower and often have the will power you want, and that basically the vice of snuff and even absorbed through the mouth out words like “I quit,” “I’m trying or “I can not”, there is no communion between desire and deed.

For all those who want to quit and can not, there has been a new therapy from the hand of a French physician, Claude PirĂ³. The new technique is called Photonics anti-addiction therapy and is based on physics.

According to indicates the specialist, your therapy can suppress the need to snuff, a curious thing because even many people who have stopped smoking years ago, say they continue to feel the desire to light a cigarette. The idea is to bring about a recovery of cell function by stimulating photon (magnetic, electric and gravitational), gels various colors are going through the head for 20 minutes.

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The practice of sport prevents smoking in adolescents

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

Smoking is an addiction on the rise among adolescents, and in contrast to this habit that damages health, increases the number of adolescent sedentary and decays the number of young physically active.

sport prevents smoking in adolescentsThis looks like a clash between good and bad habits factors for health, is what is found in a study that evaluated young people between 13 and 18 years in various Spanish cities.

Although sport and physical activity do not reduce the dangers of smoking, sport and snuff consumption is intimately related, according to results of such research.

Were analyzed about 3,000 adolescents from schools in the cities of Granada, Madrid, Murcia, Santander and Zaragoza.

Young people had to answer a questionnaire about their habits and its subsequent analysis shows that 59.2% of adolescents are physically inactive, which far exceeds the percentage in males compared to females (71.1% and 46.7% respectively .)

With respect to smoking, 15% of youth are regular smokers, addiction being slightly higher among women.

By associating physical exercise with the use of snuff was a clear correlation, and that 80.9% of physically inactive adolescents who reported not smoking.

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Sport to quit smoking

Monday, May 10th, 2010

The benefits of moving the smoke through physical exercise.

Sport to quit smokingIn sports constantly and without excess, the advantages are many, especially if you’ve decided to quit smoking:
1. Reduces stress, because it helps you release tension and thereby avoid the temptation of using nicotine to relax every day.
2. Improve your health, lengthen life and prevent all types of conditions that led you to your addiction to nicotine.
3. Boost your immune response and avoid respiratory infections which are more likely the lungs of a smoker or ex? smoker.
4. Helps you sleep better and to rest.
5. Keep your weight steady and helps you lose weight the kilos that you can win by quitting smoking.
6. Helps control? Cravings? food hazardous to health.
7. Exercise makes it faster and easier to get used to living without snuff.
8. With time, doing sports change your lifestyle in a matter of eating habits, sleep, alcohol, etc.. , and makes you a person much healthier than when fumabas.
9. Most people do not smoke snuff athletes. If you play sports in a group or go out with people who enjoy the exercise, avoid the temptation and have few opportunities to return to inhale the smoke or a friend offers you a cigarette.

Quitting with a diet to lose weight

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Quitting with a diet to lose weight: it could be the most successful method.

For those who have the bad habit of smoking, even though they know about how harmful it is about your health the snuff and other chemicals in cigarettes, quitting is also a challenge and requires willpower and determination.

Quit smoking diet

A nicotine addiction that creates, adds the fear (sometimes true and sometimes not so much), and even more powerful in women that if she leaves a cigarette can be fat.

According to research conducted by scientists at the School of Medicine, University of Feinberg, matching the cessation of snuff with a reduced calorie diet may just be the key to success.

These researchers found that women who quit smoking while starting a treatment for weight control can not only achieve better results with the balance but also in order to leave the snuff.

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Acupuncture for smoking cessation

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Among the many treatments to quit smoking, acupuncture can be considered one of the most natural and alternative ways to achieve it. According to Carrillo Beltran, a Spanish physician specializing in geriatrics and Acupuncture, “between 80 and 90 percent of smokers who use acupuncture cessation get it in less than three sessions.”

Acupuncture for smokingTo explain this statement which, at first may sound too general, the specialist explained in greater detail than “the idea is that the patient is indifferent snuff with the sessions as it takes, the vast majority of patients, between 80 and 90 percent use one to three sessions. ”

In addition, rescued on the use of this technique that has no side effects.

Acupuncture does stimulate the nervous system to produce neurotransmitters in a manner reflecting and instantaneous, so that you can control getting withdrawal symptoms the patient is unresponsive to snuff.

Yes, Carrillo said that the time “is going to be no smoking will always depend on the patient,” ie, there may be a relapse into addiction because it “will not change the sensitivity of the nervous system to the drug .

It can be considered to “acupuncture as a painless technique, non-traumatic, no side effects, and effective and efficient way to get to keep the nicotine addict neutral with regard to snuff, especially in smokers motivated to quit this pernicious dependency,” summarized the professional.

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Pill To Stop Smoking And Drinking

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

A single pill promises to help those who ingest it to stop smoking so satisfying as drinking, according to researchers trying to help people overcome both habits targeting a pleasure center in the brain.

Quit smoking pillThe drug, called varenicline, already is promoted as an aid to help smokers kick the habit. Recent research, though preliminary, suggest that the pill could have a second utility, also help to alcoholics.

The researchers said that the implementation of the pills may even go further as a treatment for all types of addictions, from the habit of gambling to the dependence on painkillers.

But several experts not involved in the study have warned that no such thing as a magic cure for addiction and that varenicline and similar drugs can have a more immediate use for the treatment of diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Pfizer Inc. developed the drug specifically as an aid to quit smoking and has sold in the United States since August under the brand name Chantix.

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Nicotine: The venom of snuff.

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Nicotine

Nicotiana tabacum is the floor of snuff. It is extracted snuff including cigarettes. Much of the addiction that causes snuff comes from the nicotine, the main addictive substance bearing plant, nicotiana. In addition, add other substances such as tar or oxidizing substances.

When snuff smoking a pipe or cigar nicotine stays in the mucosa of the mouth and larynx, but if you smoke a cigarette poisonous smoke into the lungs. The snuff causes lung cancer, but also the mouth, larynx …

Cause metabolic alterations in the central nervous system and the kidney. This substance creates many complications in humans.

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Stop smoking (II)

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Stop smokingSmoking cessation need to be sure to do so. Stand a moment to think how many things would improve if I stopped smoking. It is usually not effective to target when the summer or New Year, such promises are often unfulfilled, it is best to think and let the short term, for example when the pack runs out of snuff.

- Stay away as far as is possible in an environment full of smoke, avoid smoking actions that recuenden. Some people have to try several times before kicking the habit, learn from your mistakes.
- If at times you feel unwell, with mono, try doing something that provides pleasure, try to forget their addiction and looking at life with optimism. Drink water, do sports ….
- Can help of nicotine patches, chewing gum for smoking cessation … There are many products in pharmacies, can be done without this help, but if you think you need ask your pharmaceutical.
- When you take a time without smoking you will gain life, but maybe you want to start smoking again … to give you a prize in a piggy bank keeps the money you spend daily in snuff and from time to time you take a fancy to that money.)

Get it! Stop smoking, the first few months will be to fight the monkey, increasingly, there will come a time when you realize who spend whole days without thinking of the smoke, at that time will be almost immune to nicotine, with no retest a cigar you can enjoy a healthier life.

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