General Information of Smoking
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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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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Oral Health and snuff, enemies to death
“It’s an obligation we dentists worry about this issue if we want a safer clinical practice.” So says the dentist Claudio Melech, who considers it essential to influence their patients to help them quit the dangerous habit of smoking. “The suspension of smoking practice not only improves dental health, but makes it more profitable and prestigious, the patient manages to quit going to the dentist becomes a patient who recommended it to others. One positions to people with a professional approach different, more comprehensive, “he stresses.
Most dentists do not talk to patients about their smoking for fear of importuning and they stop to visit. According Melech, which is the opposite happen. “There is a very nice empathy, the patient feels more loved, there is more concern for their health.”
Numerous studies worldwide have shown that smoking directly contributes to the development of periodontal disease (gum disease) and that they would be more severe compared to nonsmokers. It has also been determined that smoking alters the immune response against infections, decreases the ability to repair the tissues of the mouth and delayed wound healing, so the dentist may even contraindicate a particular treatment, such as titanium implants, for example, where it has been found after 5 years of postoperative observation, smokers are 2 times more risk of losing their teeth about non-smokers. Read the rest of this entry »
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The oral health of the smoker
he oral cavity suffers the direct action of smoke constituents for inhalation, retention and expulsion in the mouth. Its irritating and toxic components, produce a continuous micro-aggression which affects the teeth and the whole mouth (gums, teeth, saliva, etc.)..
Through direct exposure to cigarette smoke, the damage locally and snuff alter oral health. The temperature of the smoke and all accompanying irritants injure the lining of the mouth. The smoke in their transit through the mouth of its components deposited on the teeth , forming a resin film. This film adheres strongly to tooth staining in yellow staining. The tooth surface covered with smoke constituents facilitates the formation of dental plaque, which if not cleaned effectively, and form a calcified plaque that having nicotine, tar. acquires a dark brown color, which negatively affects both the health of your mouth and your aesthetics.
The inhibitory effect caused by the smoke makes the blood no gum , so the smoker does not see the progression of gingivitis (inflammation of gums) or periodontitis (which causes loss of teeth). In the case of smoking, plaque and tartar are empowered by smoke constituents, the main asset in their advance. The gum receives less blood and oxygen, while decreasing defense mechanisms against bacteria of the plaque, they become more aggressive and more actively destroy the tissues supporting the teeth.
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Smoking affects up to 70 percent male fertility
Travilla Efren Mendez, a specialist in fertility, explained that “pre- pregnancy smoking affects men more because the mobility of the sperm is reduced by up to 70 percent, which may reduce their reproductive capacity. “In an interview, also a gynecologist and specialist in care of infertile couples, Pregnancy and Contraception High Risk, said that in the case of women smoking can cause ectopic pregnancy and even infertility because the egg can not be grasped.
Emphasized that there is evidence that prior smoking the pregnancy has serious health implications, not just the mother but the product. This is because addiction during pregnancy may cause delay in the intrauterine growth product, resulting in children of low birth weight babies or even which may have withdrawal symptoms. He explained that this condition is explained as the concern that produces an addiction to stop, because the mother was going through blood chemicals from snuff.
Trevilla Mendez warned that “the baby has a disadvantage because they can even be susceptible to respiratory infections, “but not only that but it becomes a passive smoker to be in that environment and has the same risk as an adult passive smoker. In turn, Dr. Guadalupe Ponciano Rodriguez, coordinator of the clinic Against Smoking Faculty of Medicine, UNAM, said it is advisable to start treatment to stop smoking at least six months before pregnancy, but said it should be prescription and under supervision of a physician.
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Quitting smoking – Data on smoking
Half of the people who die from smoking have lost an average of 20 years. And many more individuals and families are seriously diminished the quality of years lived.
Smoking is the recognized cause of 29 diseases (including 10 different types of cancer)
Because of its enormous importance, it should be noted that smoking causes over 90% of bronchitis cases diagnosed in our country, 95% of lung cancers, 30% of all coronary heart disease and also a well-established causal factor for esophageal cancer, bladder, oral cavity and larynx.
The women, besides being exposed to the same risks as snuff causes in men, are subject to additional risks. In addition to these smoking increases the risk of lung cancer and heart disease.
Snuff consumption has a multiplier effect of cardiovascular risks posed by oral contraceptives. Therefore, the likelihood of heart attack increases tenfold in women who smoke and continue this method of contraception. Women who smoke have an advance through menopause two to three years compared to women who never smoked, in parallel increasing the risk of osteoporosis.
Sometimes the risk of death smoking causes confusion is minimized and so interested, placing it among many other risks that we are forced to live every day.
Looking at the annual deaths due to causes of social impact and equally avoidable deaths we can see from consumption of snuff are tens of times more numerous than deaths from illegal drugs, AIDS and road accidents.
You know that, of 1,000 deaths that occur in Spain, 151 due to the consumption of snuff, 15 traffic accidents, 4 to AIDS and less than an illegal drug consumption. It is therefore important to know that it is wrong to equate the health impact of smoking with other everyday risks to which we are also subject, such as traffic accidents or exposure to air pollution.
Smoking accelerates the aging process
The appearance of wrinkles on the face is a natural phenomenon common to most older people, whether men or women. However, smoking causes dry skin and accelerates the onset of facial wrinkles prematurely.
While this fact can not be regarded as a serious health problem, it must be pointed out, if only to counter the image that advertising offers people who use snuff: young, attractive and radiant faces. Read the rest of this entry »
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Passive smoking
Cigarette smoke “at rest” Second-hand Smoke
In Spain there are five million passive smokers (non-smokers who are exposed to the risks of this snuff smoke indoors) involuntary and dangerously consuming, on average, equivalent to an amount ranging from three to six cigarettes a day, but smoke still worse than the smoker inhales directly to the shed.
Second-hand smoke causes snuff called “passive smoking”, which ranks third in the list of preventable deaths worldwide. Despite that affects us all, children and pregnant women are the population most vulnerable to its effects.
High levels of toxicity
Concentrations of toxic substances such as carbon monoxide and nicotine, among others, are higher in secondhand smoke than in the set (three times more nicotine and tar, and five times more carbon monoxide). This is compounded by the fact that environmental smoke particles are smaller with burn more slowly, which also produce more toxic substances, allows them to enter the nose and mouth more easily than the smoke inhaled directly to the shed. The result is very harmful act by different mechanisms and the smoke that the smoker swallows with their puffs.
Thus, it was found that the concentrations of tar and carbon monoxide in tobacco smoke are similar to those of a smoker snuff “normal” five cigarettes a day. Read the rest of this entry »
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Snuff causes impotence
The direct relationship between snuff and impotence is clearly established for many years. Although they tend to believe otherwise, it is not at all an exaggeration or a threat to the health authorities have been removed from the sleeve to amedentrar to smokers, but the increasingly precise finding of the effects of some inhaled substances after combustion of a cigarette on the penile vascular system.
Impotence or erectile dysfunction is defined as the inability to obtain or maintain an erection sufficient to achieve satisfactory sexual activity. According to multiple studies show, among the most common causes of this disorder are diabetes, some drugs and snuff, in addition to depression, anxiety or low self-esteem. Impotence affects mostly self-esteem and even relationships. A study of the Sexual Dysfunction Association estimates that about 21% of couples who are separated by breaking their relationship problems arising from this disorder.
Snuff in the veins
The content of cigarettes affects the vascular system of the penis and cause a significant alteration of the central nervous system. A study at the University of Florence, recently published in the International Journal of Impotence Research, corroborates these findings and provides new data about it. The paper analyzes a group of 1,150 male smokers who underwent a detailed psychological questionnaire and various biochemical parameters. Read the rest of this entry »
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Ways to quit smoking Why is it so difficult?
This really is a hard habit to quit , not only for the components that generate addiction, but all it means a cigarette in the life of smoking.
For those who never had this harmful and damaging habit can not understand it, but smoking is many things. For example, for someone who is lonely or has done with your partner simply light up a cigarette gives you a feeling of companionship and pleasure. The same is true for many people, instead taking refuge in food, they do through this service. Others do not conceive finish lunch or dinner or a coffee if you turn one.
Behind these behaviors, according to therapists, there is a background that is related to trying to hide emotions or unresolved situations (leaving aside the coupling produced by nicotine). Precisely this is because it is so difficult to quit, and it is not the cause of the addiction but the symptom, ie not figure out what caused us to start with such a defect. Read the rest of this entry »
Children forced to smoke
This girl smokes a pack a day. The 5 who smokes his father. The 4 of his mother. The 11 local when they go to smoke.
With this slogan the Ministry of Health launches new campaign to try us aware of the great danger that our children are exposed to every time you light a cigarette.
The snuff smoke not only pollutes the indoor, but seriously affects the respiratory system of children, which is more sensitive the lower the child’s age. Being the most affected fetuses of pregnant smokers (both active and passive).
Every time we go to a child to a place with smoke, we are forced to smoke passively, forcing him to breathe air polluted by smoke snuff. In this way our children become involuntary smokers, innocent victims of our addiction.
We must be aware of the effects of snuff to always avoid, exposing this danger to children and pregnant women.
Following the increase in respiratory illnesses in children (bronchitis, bronchiolitis, asthma attacks, etc), we take very seriously the health of the youngest, always choosing smoke free, especially when we get together with children or pregnant. “For heaven’s sake. Choose smoke free.”
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