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Stop Smoking for the Health of your Children
We’re more than accustomed to the changes that has led anti-smoking law in the everyday lives of smokers and nonsmokers. Those who still have not decided to leave, wonder, especially if they are parents of young children, what can do now to smoke or quit?
“If in the presence of my children could not smoke at home or the car and now not let me smoke a cigarette law while I drink coffee, where smoking without going cold? ” He asked a colleague at a gathering in front of morning coffee. Almost a year has passed since the implementation of the smoking ban in Spain.
In favor of the health of children, stop smoking
And is that the ban on smoking in public places will for health and to the detriment of the economy. If you are a parent and you have not yet decided to abandon the habit of snuff, do not miss the results of the German study, which revealed that children whose parents smoke have higher blood pressure. Read the rest of this entry »
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Smoking is so little health hazard as do every day
Smokers ‘social’, those who do not do every day or who do not exceed 10 cigarettes a day, have almost the same probability of cardiovascular disease than the most active.
For too long, doctors insist the damage smoking causes both heavy smokers as liabilities, but did not put enough emphasis on the damage that light smokers also suffer, ie that light smokers and also sporadic (those who do not daily ), “said Dr. Alejandro Videla, pulmonologist and coordinator of the Smoking Clinic, Hospital Universitario Austral.
In general, when we think about smoking cessation, we are reminded of a “smoker type” addict, consuming more than 10 cigarettes per day. The problem is that casual smokers are increasing and pose a challenge to the health system because they are not considered “smokers” , which fosters the myth that smoking every bit as much and does not hurt.
“While it is clear that a person who smokes a pack of cigarettes per day has a greater risk charge than that which it does daily, they also have chances of getting smoking related diseases, “said the specialist. Read the rest of this entry »
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Smoking and Health in Their Eyes
Avoid smoking or quitting is one of the best investments you can make to the health of your eyes for the future.
Both the teens and early twenties, when adulthood is far-Smoking increases the future risk of cataracts and age-related macular degeneration (ARMD). The more a person smokes, the higher the risk. The good news is that once you stop smoking, the risk of contracting these diseases of the eye becomes almost as low as those who never smoked.
Smoking also increases the risk of cardiovascular disease that indirectly impact the health of the eyes. In addition, smoke snuff, even if the smoke is an irritant to exacerbate dry eyes, a very uncomfortable condition that often have women after menopause.
Smoking increases the risk of severe vision loss in people with other eye diseases. And when women smoke during pregnancy, there are more chances of giving birth prematurely, leaving the baby at greater risk of contracting the disease called retinopathy of prematurity that could cause blindness, as well as other problems health.
The American Cancer Society has resources to help people who want to quit.
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Smoking is harmful to your health
When your parents were young, people could buy cigarettes and smoke virtually anywhere, even in hospitals! Cigarette advertising was everywhere. Currently, we are more aware of what smoking is bad for our health. Cigarettes are restricted or prohibited in virtually all public places and companies that manufacture cigarettes and can not do propaganda on buses or trains, road signs, television and in many magazines. Almost everyone knows that smoking causes cancer, emphysema and heart disease, that can shorten your life by 10 years or more and that the habit can cost a smoker thousands of dollars annually.
So why do people still smoke? The answer is very simple: it is an addiction. Once you start is very difficult to quit smoking is a habit hard to break because the snuff contains nicotine, which is highly addictive. As with heroin or other addictive drugs, the body and mind so quickly get used to the nicotine that the person needs to consume to feel good. Almost no smoker begins to smoke as adults. Statistics show that approximately 9 out of 10 smokers start before 18 years of age. Some teens who smoke say they start because they think it makes them look bigger (and it is true, as long as you want to have yellow teeth and wrinkles). Others smoke because they believe it helps them relax (but not, in fact, the heart beats faster while a person smokes).
Some start smoking as a way to feel rebellious or to differentiate (which works if you want your friends have to wait somewhere else while you smoke). Others start because their friends smoke, or simply because they have something to do. Some people, especially girls, start smoking because they think it can control your weight. The diseases that smoking can cause, such as lung diseases or cancer, do cause weight loss, but not a very good way to lose weight! Another of the reasons why people start smoking is because members of your family makes. Most adults who started smoking in their teens never thought they would become addicted. That’s why people say they would have been much easier not to start smoking. The advertisements of cigarettes from the time when your parents were young convinced many of them that smoking was glamorous, striking or fascinating, although in reality is something repugnant-smelling, expensive and unhealthy.
The cigarette ads in the 1940s even showed doctors who recommended the cigarette as a way to relax! The cigarette ads still show smokers as attractive and modern, sophisticated and elegant, or rebellious and cool. The good news is that now these ads are not so visible and are less effective than before: in the same way that doctors are more sensible about cigarettes today than in the previous generation, teenagers are more aware of how manipulative they can be advertisements. The government has also passed laws that limit where and how you can advertise tobacco companies to help children avoid the vice of smoking.
How did the cigarette your health There are no physical reasons to start smoking: the body does not need snuff in the way it needs food, water, sleep and exercise. In fact, many of the chemicals in cigarettes, like nicotine and cyanide, are actually poisons that can kill in high enough doses. The body is smart and defended when it is being poisoned.
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The Dangers of Secondhand Smoke
Snuff smoke in the environment can seriously affect the health of , According to a report published in the latest issue of “Circulation.”
It is a paradox, maybe one of the largest in the history of mankind. The epidemic is claiming more deaths in the world-more than AIDS, wars, genocides, that is tolerated and encouraged by most governments around the world: it is smoking. Ten thousand people die each day because of cigarette smoke. It has been known for nearly a century that snuff kills, and not a day that goes by that does not appear that a new scientific study adds more evidence of the ravages of health ..
An important part of the paradox is that cigarette smoke, besides being bad for those who spend a percentage of your salary in it also hurts those who have to swallow it in spite of lack of legislation establishing a modicum of respect for the non-smoking and health policy to promote social education.
The figures speak for themselves. In the latest research carried out with passive smoking, which was just published in the latest issue of Circulation, has shown that after a non-smoker spends a half hour in a room where there’s smoke snuff, its stores of antioxidants (including vitamin C) down to a minimum. These are substances that protect, among other things, the arteries do not form plaques (causes of cardiovascular disease). Read the rest of this entry »
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Effects of snuff on the young
The snuff on the health of young people has particular aspects that should be taken into account to see young people smoking. The World Health Organization in the pages dedicated to the risk of snuff (in English), presents an article on the effect of snuff in the young. Then I will present a translation of it.
In young people, the consequences of smoking are:
Short-term health effect of snuff consumption, including both respiratory and nonrespiratory effects, addiction to nicotine, and the risk associated with drug use other equally or more dangerous than snuff.
long-term effects of snuff on the health of young people increased by the fact that most young people who smoke regularly continue to smoke throughout adulthood. There is evidence that cigarette smokers have reduced lung function compared to people who have never smoked. In fact, smoking prevents normal lung development. Read the rest of this entry »
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The health of the smoker
Be happy, I left it, and if you have not made a decision, you want to put this article to show that what is happening to your health, sure to have noticed already, but it’s good to know that must: smoking. The World Health Organization, published some years since become literature showing the harms of snuff for the smoker.
In this article, what is done is to collect those statements made in this document, we also attached the link for the full document. Among the diseases that produces snuff are: 1. Hair loss snuff weakens the immune system and makes the body more vulnerable to diseases such as lupus erythematosus, which can cause hair loss as well as mouth ulcers and rashes on the face, scalp and hands. 2. Cataract is believed that snuff causes or exacerbates several eye conditions. The percentage of people with cataracts, a clouding of the lens that blocks light and can cause blindness, is 40% higher among smokers. The snuff causes cataracts in two ways:
direct irritation of the eyes
and release into the lungs of chemicals that reach the eye via the bloodstream.
Snuff consumption is also associated with macular degeneration related to age,
incurable eye disease caused by a deterioration in the central area of the retina called the macula. In this area focus images, allowing us to read, drive, recognize faces or colors and see details of objects.
3. Wrinkles The snuff causes premature skin aging due to wear resulting from the proteins that give it elasticity, as well as vitamin A depletion and reduced blood flow to tissue suffering. Smokers have a dry, rough and furrowed by wrinkles tiny, especially around the lips and eyes. Read the rest of this entry »
Tips for quitting
* Start the day with a breathing exercise, in a well ventilated area.
* Avoid thinking that you will not smoke anymore. Simply decide that today is not going to smoke.
* The urge to smoke are not eternal, in contrast, disappear after a short time.
* Respect the decision every time you want to smoke.
* During the day drink plenty of water and juices fruits, natural preference.
* Forget for now that usually accompany drinks to snuff. Coffee, other stimulants and alcohol. Do not forget to be a short time).
* Alter your routine, not to fall in the consumption of snuff is associated with gestures: go for a walk, take the phone with a pen in hand, brush your teeth just finished eating .. .
* Avoid smoking environments, especially the first few days.
* When the irresistible desire to smoke seems to relax: Inhale deeply, hold your breath as long as possible and release it slowly, do it slowly and thinking about what you are doing.
* If feel an urge to light a cigarette, think that this will only last a few seconds and it will become more controllable. Watch the clock and wait a minute, so check that the need disappears.
* You can snack, but to avoid weight gain should be low in calories: fruit, sugarless gum …
* Try to eat rationally avoiding fat, sweet and carbohydrates, it is true that some people gain weight after quitting smoking. Specifically, the average weight gain a year after leaving the snuff is 2-3 k. This is due in part to eat more and also as a result of transient alterations in their metabolism.
* Do not give in never, not even a cigarette. Start with one and smoke again as before.
Quitting smoking in pregnancy: foolproof tricks
Stop fum ar in pregnancy is possible. Here are some tips to quit cigarettes in pregnancy. If you are pregnant, you should leave the snuff, as it can be very harmful to the developing fetus.
Smoking is a major public health problems. Of the more than one billion smokers in the world, 20% are women, many of them pregnant snuff leave not even in your state. For this reason, WHO dedicated World No Snuff Day, celebrated today the May 31 “Gender and snuff, snuff promotion aimed at women.” The World No Snuff, real risks it should be noted that smoking, a leading cause of preventable death, leads to both smokers and those who breathe secondhand smoke. The use of snuff causes associated diseases such as fatal heart attacks, stroke cardiovascular, cancer, respiratory diseases, among others. Diseases that are becoming more common in women because the prevalence of snuff consumption among females is increasing and the age at onset. Protecting pregnant women and children from the harms of snuff.
Non-smokers have a right to breathe air not contaminated by smoke snuff and therefore does not undermine their health. Population groups particularly susceptible to increased risk should be protected: in these groups are the children, the pregnant, young, people with respiratory diseases, indoor workers from smoking, etc.. Quitting smoking in the pregnancy is difficult but not impossible. If you are a smoker, you’re pregnant and have decided to quit smoking, here are some tips to make your pregnancy a healthy and develop healthy, away from snuff. Surely, if you decided to quit, find help of all kinds to make reaching your goal. You can guide you, for example towards homeopathy and Bach flower remedies, recourse to group therapy, seek support from the specialists, go to your doctor or trusted friends who have managed to quit. We also want to add our two cents, and we offer some simple tips to help you quit smoking easier:
• Each time you go to buy snuff, stick to buying only one packet.
• After smoking a cigarette, put the package in another room, so you have to get up if you want to smoke your other.
• Take your cigarette lighter or matches the bag, and let them always at home.
• Before lighting the cigarette, breathe three times. After each set, leaving the cigarette in the ashtray.
• Empty the ashtray after he finished his cigarette and do not let the hand.
• Turn off the cigarette after the first puff, then turn them on; Fumal only halfway.
• At home, only smoke in a room, not your favorite place, but one you uncomfortable. Do not smoke in bed anymore, nor in the morning or at night.
• Seek support from family and friends. Try engaging in activities that do not allow smoking, like going to the movies or the theater, and spend more time with nonsmoking friends.
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Laser Smoking Cessation
Making the decision to quit means opting for a healthy, less sedentary and more accountable. At present there is no need to give a breakdown of what the problems are caused by the consumption of snuff, but it is necessary to achieve a change in the minds of people who smoke daily and to compulsively. Some people decide to leave the snuff and do so only for a time, while others came one day they choose to quit for good. For them there are several ways to quit smoking and not die in the attempt.
Quit smoking with laser therapy is very booming today. This method is done in just one session that can last about ninety minutes. It is a painless process that is costly and not economically. Of course, not exclude that before this therapy has made a consultation with a specialist in the subject. Thus, the patient can ensure that it is in favorable conditions to undergo the laser and positive benefits.
The function of the laser is to intervene in those areas of the body where it appears the desire for nicotine, and what is sought is to minimize withdrawal symptoms that can generate non-consumption of a cigarette. Read the rest of this entry »
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