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A Good Day to Quit Smoking

Friday, June 4th, 2010

A Good Day to Quit Smoking

The Office of Health and Consumer Affairs yesterday joined the celebration of World No Snuff by placing an information table at the gates of City Hall Regino Martinez Street. The council offered the travelers information leaflets on the problems caused by her smoking and snuff habits of life without, and inviting smokers to change their candy cigarettes. The local board of the Spanish Association Against Cancer in Algeciras also participated in the day with an information table. The Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC), which owns the local board, called yesterday for “confusing the reform of the Law of Snuff, especially with regard to its application in dance halls, gambling establishments and spaces public use and demanded the total prohibition of the consumption of snuff in that area.

The draft bill bans smoking in nightclubs, gaming facilities and public spaces during business hours “which allow entry to persons under eighteen years.” The AECC reiterated that the law should not stop smoking “in no time and before any public” and opined that “the total ban is easier to implement than the simple restrictions.
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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.

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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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Nicotine: The venom of snuff.

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

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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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Symptoms of withdrawal from snuff

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

What are the symptoms of withdrawal from snuff?

Irritability, nervousness, restlessness, anxiety, frustration, anger, grief, sadness, difficulty concentrating, tiredness, loss of appetite for normal work, insomnia, constipation, headache, intense cravings and increased appetite. These effects appear in most of those trying to quit smoking and are the leading cause of relapse. These effects are unpleasant but temporary. They are a sign of weakness or that you can not leave the snuff. In any event worth supporting these symptoms compared with the advantage that we get to stop smoking.

Is it possible to control the withdrawal symptoms?

The unpleasant effects of withdrawal will be less severe if treated with nicotine gum or patches or other drugs to help you quit smoking. If any of these symptoms is so annoying as to endanger the success of smoking cessation consult your doctor.

Can occasionally smoking a cigarette?

Emphatically NO. Once able to stop smoking will not make the mistake of thinking that smoking a cigarette, nothing happens. Start with one and return to smoking as before.

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Components of Cigarette

Friday, February 12th, 2010

components of snuff

What’s in cigarette smoke and snuff?
The snuff, and the smoke that emerges in its combustion, contain over 4,000 chemicals, 400 of them highly toxic, some 50 cancer and 12 toxic gases. See the list of items that the snuff componene should suggest to smokers if not really worth quitting also should know that “A smoker of a pack a day, over a year enter a quantity tar equivalent to a cup of coffee ”

What’s more, do not know all the components of snuff, but we do know is that TAR consists of (the cancer), mercury (used in thermometers), LEAD (fuel and exhaust fumes), Polonium 210 (radioactive element) ammonia, and hundreds and hundreds of components.

We summarize the principal of these substances, but the list is endless.

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Teens and snuff consumption

Monday, January 25th, 2010

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According to statistics, most addicted smokers start smoking to snuff when they are between 11 and 14 years.

Many teenagers start smoking because they do many of his friends. In this regard it is important to teach your child the value of knowing how to say no to certain things. Despite the typical first teasing, his friends will not think evil in your children etc. simply by rejecting a cigarette. On the contrary, although they do not say aloud, many will have more respect for his decision.

Other teens start smoking as a way of rebelling against their parents, school or society in general. The rebellion is part of adolescence and somewhat inevitable, but there are things you can do to help you stop the snuff. Of course, your job is easier if you do not smoke. Otherwise, you have much more difficult.

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