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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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Tips to Quit Smoking (Part 1)
We all know the problems associated with smoking. However, many people can not stop smoking and some do not to disregard the information necessary to do so. The aim of this paper will then serve as a guide for all those people who are looking to stop smoking and do not know what to do to achieve that result.
1. Assume the responsibility
Many people do not take responsibility for their decisions. What does this mean? In this context, we mean that if we are to stop smoking , only we can do it. We need to fully understand this idea in order to be successful. This does not mean we can not help. However, we need to become strong and take responsibility for what we want to achieve a sound and safe. We need to believe in us.
2. Share with others
The second step will be to tell your loved ones what we do. Tell your family and your closest friends you are quitting and ask for help. Probably, depending on the level of addiction or habit, the first few weeks you will feel some irritation, so it’s good that the people you normally try, know that your character will be conditioned on your decision to quit smoking. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hypnosis to quit smoking
Among all smoking cessation methods that exist, hypnosis is a technique that has yielded positive results to many ex-smokers. This activity has to be practiced with a trusted professional who knows what the way forward using hypnosis to quit smoking. Hypnosis is a technique that seeks to relax the body and spirit to achieve optimal mental state to facilitate the task proposed by the hypnotist.
Hypnosis as a method to stop smoking works merely through words. The value of the word in this type of therapy is essential and therefore the pronouncements made by the professional who hypnotizes must be done carefully and knowledgeably.
This method, well known around the world to accomplish different tasks, making work that consciously and subconsciously to enter a state of drowsiness and where control of consciousness decreases and the subject who is practicing hypnosis is more subject to fall victim of external or internal suggestions to modify behavior or thoughts. Read the rest of this entry »
2011 smoking ban
Already running the new smoking law reform approved by the Health Commission of the Congress of Deputies, which came in Vigo on January 2, 2011. Here are some of the highlights:
Where you can not quit:
- Smoking is prohibited in all premises for public use closed without any exception, both in bars and restaurants
- Nor can smoking in playgrounds and areas or play areas for children.
- Nor shall smoke covered spaces or outdoor areas belonging to the health facilities .
- Also disappear smoking areas of airports .
- It is forbidden in all the media broadcast programs or images in which guest presenters or do they appear smoking or mention any products associated with snuff. This law does not include movies or series.
But where we can smoke:
- The hotels can book up to 30% of rooms for smokers.
- Smoking is allowed in outdoor areas of buildings or rooms equipped for prisons, mental hospitals and centers for the elderly or persons with disabilities.
- In the terraces of bars and restaurants that are surrounded by a maximum of 2 walls.
- In the open spaces of universities and exclusively dedicated to adult education, provided they are not immediate access to surrounding buildings or sidewalks.
- In private clubs smoking , provided they meet the standards for such premises.
Tips for quitting
Several studies have shown that these 5 keys to help you stop smoking the best way possible. Increase your chances of success if combined or used together.
Prepare.
Get motivation and support.
Change your routine and find new alternatives.
Get drug treatment and use correctly.
Be prepared for relapse or difficult situations.
Prepare
Analyze your chances of success. Check whether you are prepared. Know your relationship with the snuff.
1. Do you have a strong physical dependence on nicotine?
Although it may be part of the customs and gestures of every day, smoking is an addiction. Nicotine is the substance of snuff responsible for its addictive qualities. Cigarettes are an ideal vehicle to deliver nicotine, taking only 7 seconds to reach the brain. The Masterstroke test is specially designed to measure the degree of physical dependence on addictive component of snuff: nicotine. It also lets you know if a candidate for treatment using substituted nicotine therapy as an aid for smoking cessation. In any case, whatever its level of addiction, quitting is possible and get every day in the world thousands of people. Read the rest of this entry »
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Quitting smoking during pregnancy
Quitting is not easy. The cravings, the irritability, the powerful desire to smoke “last cigarette” are sometimes overwhelming. However, now that you’re pregnant, you probably realize the importance of saying goodbye to this habit. Although you tried before without success, this time you can achieve. Approximately 40 percent of smokers who try during pregnancy, get it (a success rate far higher than women who are not pregnant). Yet, many continue their habit, which increases the risk of having a premature birth, the baby is born with low birth weight or other complications arise, such as vaginal bleeding and spontaneous abortions. What differentiates it stop those who continue smoking? In general, pregnant women who stop smoking are not necessarily stronger or more intelligent. Nor does it mean they want more babies. The difference is simply that adopt better strategies to reach their goal. Each person is different and what to work for you, perhaps another will not fare so well, but there are several smoking cessation techniques that stand out for their effectiveness. BabyCenter offers you these five strategies to quit snuff.
Plan in advance
Quitting smoking is not as easy as making a ball with your last package and throw it away. Need a plan to overcome the challenge that you face. Most people leave it set a “start date” and make public their friends, family and coworkers. If you are pregnant is very important not to delay too long. Once you’ve set the “when” it is time to think about the “how.” You will have to decide if you’re ready to leave at once, if you prefer to download first the number of cigarettes per day and leave them completely within a week or two, or if you use a nicotine patch therapy. If you choose this last option, talk to your doctor to recommend a product. Whatever your decision, you need to have clear what you do when you’re between an irresistible urge to smoke. Some people chew gum or eat something, other people are going for a walk. Find something to distract you for a few minutes and help you resist temptation.
Get support from those around you
Quitting smoking is much easier if you try to do it alone. Support from family and friends can increase your chances of success. If you know someone who has quit smoking, call her when you feel a craving too big to give you encouragement. If you have family or friends who smoke, ask them not to do so before you. If your partner smokes, encourage him to quit or ask to leave the garden or the balcony to smoke. Some studies indicate that women more easily leave you if your partner does the same time.
Talk to your doctor
Whatever tactics you choose, a conversation with your doctor can mean the difference between success and failure. He can give you information and advise and at least give you some words of encouragement are always good. Do not let your first conversation about the snuff with your doctor is the last. If your next visit you are still smoking, tell it with full honesty and without feeling embarrassed. It is best to speak out for your welfare and your baby. And when you finally quit smoking, Tell too! No doubt share your joy.
Never forget why you’re quitting smoking
At first, you probably spend very bad times. If you do not feel a strong motivation, you probably have difficulty resisting the urge to smoke a cigarette. Experts believe that smokers have to be very clear why they want to quit, and that motivation must be very personal. In other words, we must be clear about why we have decided to support a process as hard as detoxification. I think this is one of the best gifts you can give your baby, while still in your womb. Constantly reminded of the benefits of not smoking, and of good courage. What you get!
Do not give up
Have a plan. You have the motivation. Your partner, your doctor, your family and friends support you. The time has come. You have to be stronger than the craving. If you give now, you have to start all over again. After some weeks, the withdrawal will start to recede and the urge to smoke will be less intense and frequent. If you smoke a cigarette again, do not beat yourself or lose sight of your goal. Many smokers try several times before the final. If you relapse do not beat yourself telling you that you have failed. Be positive: If you’ve gone a week without smoking, is a week in which neither you nor your baby have been exposed to toxins from snuff. Learn from each attempt to be better prepared next time.
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Stop Smoking: Motivations positive
When we quit the positive motivations are always more important than the mere thought that smoking is bad for health. To quit smoking is very important that we see all the advantages we can provide.
I want to be independent and I rebel to slavery of smoking
has come when my independence and many have already traveled this road and have the satisfaction that the freedom to choose the hard way, but not both, to be out of slavery that smoking is like other drugs, make us dependent. The snuff is a drug spoiled and perhaps for that reason is more harmful than others, but things begin to change. Any agency provides our dissatisfaction; overcome them: freedom.
It is not pleasant for anyone out for example at midnight, because we’ve run out of snuff and failure to do so unwell. Losing the warmth, which at that time, it provides already in pajamas and slippers, the snuff, is not positive, but if it is positive that the avoidance of slavery.
I will start taking care of my poor body
The truth is that I realized that every day costs me more climbing stairs or going uphill, walking fast and a lot of things.
My body hurt and to discuss this with smokers I say to them the same thing happens, but if I mention to non-smokers, they do not pass, even with people older than me …
On the other hand, the smoker’s hands, nails, skin and smell are very clear in our deteriorating informers because if you look around, take a color nail anything nice, dry skin and always significantly above the scent you choose, stands the smell of snuff.
What I have decided I will take care of my body and the first prize, given the fact that I quit, because also the last flu, gave me a smoker’s cough, unsightly, annoying, this signaling to take me in seriously.
Devote that money to give me real satisfaction
doing accounts, the amount of money I spend per month and per year in snuff, gave me a fright. If I keep that money in a separate account, will I be able TONAR holiday in a good spa that will be useful for my welfare and my health. That real satisfaction and long lasting against stress, fatigue and discomfort will make me a great service very useful for my quality of life, present and future.
My house and I no longer smell like an ashtray
and winter cold weather put the heating and hot in summer with air conditioning put the result is that ventilate poorly. Also depending on where we live invades pollution, but it all off, the ashtrays are almost always full of butts that are, apart from looking unsightly, a smell that pervades rooms, closets, clothes, and no perfume or cologne or air freshener, you delete it or disguise it seems to me that our home will also benefit from quitting.
Total, after these reflections, I invite everyone to stop smoking, the positive presented here, because after this balance, the snuff away opportunities, sick, enslaved and remove the possibility of doing other things interesting.
Our children, especially children, will thank us, because if the adult is wrong, nothing need be said to children. They will also benefit our plants, pets and even the walls of our house that will take longer to get dirty (spend less on paint).
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Smoking in pregnancy and disorders in children
Verification of a causal relationship between smoking during pregnancy and conduct disorder in children would implement prevention strategies to alleviate the patient and his family and society in general.
Young people are considered to have conduct disorders if they embark on a frequent and persistent in a variety of serious antisocial behavior.
Conduct disorder is distinguished from common criminal behavior in a variety of antisocial behaviors and in its severity, persistence and precocity.
The authors explain that because conduct disorder is a severe problem for young people affected, their families and society as a whole, and as usual that is refractory to treatment, research into the causes and subsequent prevention must be a priority.
In this study, the possibility that smoking during pregnancy is a risk factor for behavioral disorders in the offspring.
It is estimated that at least 20% to 25% of pregnant women smoke despite the fact that this habit is associated, among other diseases, low birth weight, prematurity and infant mortality.
It is believed that the mechanism is via fetal hypoxia caused by decreased uteroplacental blood flow caused by nicotine and the increase in fetal blood carboxyhemoglobin.
In addition, there is evidence that nicotine is a neurobehavioral teratogen.
Nicotine crosses the placenta and has different effects on the developing fetus. in some preclinical studies suggest that smoking during pregnancy causes changes in neuronal function of the offspring, including decreased serotonin uptake, alterations in dopaminergic systems and peripheral and central neurons, inhibition of cell growth cholinergic rat brains and brain changes in the synthesis of DNA and RNA. Read the rest of this entry »
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How to Quit Smoking in the least painful
Undoubtedly quitting is not an easy task, but not impossible, just requires a strong will and great effort on your part. Then we will dedicate some tips for you to leave this addiction in the least painful way possible.
The first is to admit you have an addiction, nicotine, addictive, and recognizing this is the best way to overcome your problem. The difference is that traditional drugs do not alter the psyche but does the same damage in the physical form.
When you stop smoking, withdrawal symptoms (which may vary from person to person), are varied and are divided in phases. The first thing you may feel cravings for food are often replaces the lack of nicotine. When you start to feel the urge to smoke, think that the need will last 3 minutes and can happen about 6 times a day for the first time. But then will become less, until you feel it more. When you feel food cravings, try to have a healthy snack such as cereal bars and fruit if you want to gain weight.
Also note that irritability is normal at this time. When you feel that this happens is breathing time and relax. Exercise or yoga classes at this time may help to avoid tense moments that you get stressed or avoid problems with others. Read the rest of this entry »
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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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