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The Dangers of Secondhand Smoke

Secondhand SmokeSnuff 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 »

Smoking in pregnancy

Smoking in pregnancy The scientific evidence is conclusive on the multiple effects from smoking on the health of smokers and people living in environments where the snuff smoke is present. Similarly, in various literature noted the effect that inhaling snuff, by the pregnant woman, has in the product, immediately increase the fetal heart rate.

This happens because most of the constituents of snuff smoke cross the placenta and levels of some components of snuff in the blood of the mother tend to even out the fetus. This is even more serious because the metabolism and elimination are slower in the fetus in the mother, and this causes the accumulation of harmful substances.

The components of snuff and aggression to the fetus

Components of snuff (more than 4 000 substances), the most studied in their assault on the fetus are:

- Nicotine is distributed through the fetal circulation and impacts in organs such as brain, heart and adrenal glands may explain the increased levels of catecholamines (substances that increase heart rate and oxygen consumption) found in the amniotic fluid. Read the rest of this entry »

Smoking cessation treatments

Smoking cessation The population is ascribed to smoking seems to have more and more members, apart from those who want to quit and to always set aside this activity. To do this, some smoking cessation treatments may lead to partial or total success, depending on the degree of commitment.

Smoking is an activity that has gained popularity in modern society thanks to the popularity of snuff as an element that goes along with, according to advertising campaigns, success, security and good relationships. Smoking is undoubtedly one of the fetishes that symbolize the twentieth century, especially since phenomena such as Hollywood films thanks to which became the largest economic power in the world, sucking a cigarette put into the new fashion equating social behavior with alcohol intake. But regardless of what the tobacco industry in the social sphere, it is clear that nicotine, tar and other components that are normally found in a cigarette is one of the most explosive mixtures few exist on the planet.

The following are some treatments for smoking cessation:
Setting a minimum quota of cigarettes per day, many smokers find it easier to set a limit to make them more disciplined at the time of restraint. Although there apparently is a method that gives immediate results, helps the person understand that only a certain amount your urge to smoke can be seen very limited. Read the rest of this entry »

The real problem with electronic cigarettes

 electronic cigarettesThe electronic cigarette is an alternative proposal to the people who want to successfully fight on smoking or necessarily quit , and say relative because the solution does not seem quite short, since it seems to have a greater propensity to defect after use . This is because the device must be connected to which the cigarettes in question, should control the release of nicotine in each puff of the person, but apparently this has no effect on other agents that cause the dependency snuff (although this case would be talking about the essence of snuff). On the contrary, seems to have an increased risk for toxic and carcinogenic effects.

Also known as e-Cigs , Electronic cigarettes have, among other active components glycerol, propylene glycol, butyl valerate, etc., all poisons that are small sprinkling of other circulatory system components harmful to the internal structures of its elements. And of course the respiratory system is also impaired. In the first instance, the combined emissions of the substances may have a power of concentration far more serious than the tar, and that’s saying a compound similar to current cigarette but does not.

The fashion of the electronic cigarette is due according to many health experts in the field while trends in the enthronement of the digital society on the simplest aspects of everyday life. For now, where the use of other electronic components is more evident, smoking occupy such other of the places for the list of new destructive habits. Of course you have established rules regarding the use of electronic cigarettes in several countries where such use is permitted but not its internal and external advertising.

But why the electronic cigarette makers boast that the unit only vaporizes the contents of the so-called cartridge, if all the components that has the electronic cigarette go directly to the respiratory system? Because they think that this is done less damage to the body when in fact the levels of uptake of each of the e-Cig substances are able to concentrate equally enormous, and there is no effective way to assess the real damage of these real agents. Of course time will tell if there is or harsher laws lenient on this, but the problem is latent.

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 »

Ways to Quit Smoking

ways to quit smoking

This really is a hard habit to quit, not only for the components that generate addiction, but all it means a cigarette in the lives of smokers.

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, make it 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 but a symptom of addiction, ie not figure out what caused us to start with such a defect.

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