Smoking and Health Care
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.
How to Quit Smoking in College
Smoking cigarettes is one of the most difficult habits to kick. Nicotine is highly addictive, making the smoker crave cigarettes non-stop. And if those cigarettes are taken out of the picture, then the smoker can become anxious, irritable, and aggravated—all withdrawal symptoms. Even more accurate is the fact that college is oftentimes a smoker’s paradise. Students, if not already smokers, may turn to cigarettes to deal with the stress that comes along with being in college. And this can all make quitting smoking while in college extremely difficult. However, there are support systems and things that you can do to successfully quit smoking in college.
One of the most popular supports when it comes to quitting smoking are the many different types of nicotine aids available. There’s nicotine gum, nicotine patches, nicotine sprays, and more. All of these have one goal in mind: to ease your body gradually off of nicotine instead of making it quit “cold turkey”, which can be quite the shock on the body—and quite challenging for the mind. Many smokers find that they’re able to successfully quit by turning to these nicotine aids. They don’t make quitting easy, but they make it more bearable.
Another thing that can be extremely helpful for smokers when it comes to quitting is a support group. There are many different support groups out there for those trying to kick the habit. The Quit Smoking Now program was developed at Florida State University but has now migrated to many different colleges across the nation. The program holds regular classes focusing on quitting smoking, providing smokers with tips and techniques that will help them to stay off of nicotine and away from cigarettes.
These are just two of the main things that can help college students who are trying to quit smoking. If you’re interested in quitting smoking, check out the nicotine aids that are available at your local drugstore, and check around campus for support groups such as Quit Smoking Now.
Katrina Robinson is a freelance writer who covers a wide variety of topics ranging from finances and private student loans to health and lifestyle.
Babies whose parents smoke have nicotine
Alarming news comes to us these days is that babies born to parents smoking have a significant amount of nicotine, because they share their parents’ room and room ventilation is not sufficient to reduce the levels and not affect the children. It eliminates the toxic snuff much they try to take action, that is not the solution.
The babies who sleep with their parents smoking are three times more of nicotine than other babies, since the effects of snuff reach the skin, clothing and hair of the creature. More alarming is the news you consider that passive smoking is a major cause of death children in developed countries, while in other countries may be due to illness or starvation.
For this study, and this discovery not only consulted the parents of 1123 babies were made but samples hair in 252 babies, visits at 3 and 6 months.
The solution is simple but not simple to stop smoking inside the house. Given that the house is one of the few places where smokers can smoke is a difficult issue because the street is only for smokers with children. The effort, of course worth it for the health of children. Another more practical and even more difficult is to stop smoking.
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The danger of cigarette smoke
A Spanish research study found that how cigarette smoke affects the muscle fibers first before the entire respiratory system. This means that little is deteriorandfo the human body without you noticing.
The researchers from the Hospital del Mar and the Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS of Barcelona, research published in Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
In the same stressed that it was known that the snuff may be one of the factors that contribute to muscle dysfunction in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), but did not know the molecular mechanisms by which cigarette smoke may damage muscle fibers of these patients.
In this sense, the working hypothesis was that the smoke could induce oxidative modifications of key structures of the muscle fibers, such as proteins.
During the investigation it was determined the levels of oxidative stress and inflammation in various muscles of healthy smokers (without cardiovascular or respiratory disease) and guinea pigs exposed to smoke for six months. Was also determined that chronic exposure did not lead to increased levels of inflammation in the muscles, but significantly increased levels of oxidation of muscle proteins in both models.
Cigarettes have Become Extreme Anxiety (III)
The cigarette works as a staff that provides an alleged relief and immediate satisfaction or the illusion that everything can be addressed with little effort, for example an interview, warn psychologists who specialize in addictions.
Faced with the decision to quit smoking are doubts and fears. One of the most typical is the fear of suffering. It is common in people already tried to quit at some point, become discouraged by the mere memory of the suffering that brought this attitude.
This suffering, “explain the specialists-are linked to the withdrawal syndrome from the standpoint of organic cause of anxiety, nervousness, sleep disturbances, aches different, cough, etc..) Moreover, from the psychic sphere can be seen lounging on the cigarette as a staunch friend, a companion of loneliness and moments of anguish, a moderator of the dreaded emotional reactions such as anger and sadness. Read the rest of this entry »
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Cigarettes have Become Extreme Anxiety (II)
The World Health Organization (WHO) said that snuff causes 1.6 million deaths per year worldwide and that at least there are 52 diseases associated with cigarette smoking, with respiratory and cardiovascular diseases the most frequent. We also know that eleven out of twelve people who get lung cancer due to smoking.
For epidemiologists, without good prevention campaigns since the number of smokers is increasing, while the age of initiation into the habit decreases: the precocity is such that it points at age 12 on average that people start smoking , especially girls.
The earlier you start the harder it is to leave, but never too late to do so because they always make profits but had already caused serious damage to health.
Several specialists believe that people get sick more harmful behaviors by bacteria and that this strongly influences the social context, the advertising, the paradigmatic figures as the doctor, parents, teachers who smoke, and lack of state tobacco control policies . Read the rest of this entry »
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Cigarettes have Become Extreme Anxiety
The World Health Organization (WHO) decided that every 31 May is taken as the day on which both governments, communities, organizations, schools, families and individuals focus their attention on the seriousness of the tobacco epidemic. The WHO’s objective is to take drastic measures to prevent youth addiction to nicotine, particularly to protect them and protect them from the risks that implies bad habit.
The event is presented each year as an opportunity for smokers trying to put aside to snuff, at least for 24 hours, taking a first step toward liberation from mental slavery and organic.
Recognized by WHO as an addiction, smoking creates both organic and psychic dependence. But addiction is a very particular because, unlike others, is socially accepted. Read the rest of this entry »
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What are the effects of snuff in the body? (III)
Cigarette smoke, including tar, causing biological changes in the eye leading to vision loss in some smokers.
In addition, each puff of cigarette smoke contains about two trillion free radicals responsible for oxidation and premature skin aging. If you want to look younger image as best you can do is quit.
Fertility problems
The fertility problems generated snuff. Are you a woman you’re having trouble getting pregnant? Then you should seriously consider quitting. Dutchman According to a report published by the British science journal “Human Fertility” the snuff has an effect ‘devastating’ fertility.
The study was conducted among 8,500 women from twenty to forty years in the Netherlands were subject to fertility treatment. Forty percent of them were addicted to snuff and had smoked at least one cigarette a day during the previous year. Read the rest of this entry »
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What are the effects of snuff in the body? (II)
The effects of snuff decreased lung tissue elasticity. Cigarette smoke causes respiratory inflammation and interferes with the normal expansion and contraction of lungs.
Carbon monoxide, the invisible poison in cigarette smoke causes heart disease. Carbon monoxide robs oxygen from blood. As a result, tissues receive less oxygen, the food necessary to stay healthy.
Damage to blood vessels and airways
The tars damage and obstruct blood vessels. This can aggravate infections cause diseases of the mouth, throat, lungs and bladder.
Smoking is one of the most common causes of impotence. In one study, smoking a pack of snuff per day increases by up to 60% risk of impotence. Read the rest of this entry »
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