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Stop Smoking for the Health of your Children
We’re more than accustomed to the changes that has led anti-smoking law in the everyday lives of smokers and nonsmokers. Those who still have not decided to leave, wonder, especially if they are parents of young children, what can do now to smoke or quit?
“If in the presence of my children could not smoke at home or the car and now not let me smoke a cigarette law while I drink coffee, where smoking without going cold? ” He asked a colleague at a gathering in front of morning coffee. Almost a year has passed since the implementation of the smoking ban in Spain.
In favor of the health of children, stop smoking
And is that the ban on smoking in public places will for health and to the detriment of the economy. If you are a parent and you have not yet decided to abandon the habit of snuff, do not miss the results of the German study, which revealed that children whose parents smoke have higher blood pressure. 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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Stop Smoking – Quit Smoking Benefits
If you are considering quitting smoking , you probably want to know some good reasons to help you decide. We have known for a long time that snuff has very harmful to the smoker’s health. In 1990, the report Surgeon General of the United States detailed knowledge. In addition, in recent years there has been a great development in the description of the benefits associated with reducing the consumption of snuff.
Quitting smoking causes an increase in life expectancy for both sexes, regardless of your age. Ex-smokers have fewer health problems than their former colleagues, smokers. They have a lower risk of coronary heart disease (myocardial infarction) and stroke, have fewer complications in the postoperative coronary morbidity and mortality from COPD is lower and there is a decreased risk of developing cancer, especially lung cancer. Nor should we forget the great benefit to the fetus means that pregnant women do not smoke, especially during the first trimester of pregnancy.
The goal of every smoker must always be completely quit, but it is true that partial reductions in cigarette consumption also produce a decrease of the associated risks.
The undoubted benefits of leaving the snuff is accompanied by some disadvantages, mainly arising from the withdrawal symptoms that every smoker suffering ceases to be. These drawbacks are minor and have a little weight on the side of the huge advantages in terms of health and wellness. Read the rest of this entry »
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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.
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
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 »
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Preventing smoking and pregnancy
Snuff consumption coinciding with pregnancy, is now recognized as a risk factor for the course of pregnancy, childbirth and the newborn
Studies of prevalence of snuff consumption among pregnant women conducted abroad show different results to our environment.In the Nordic countries or the United States of America women confirmed their pregnancy to exceed 30%, while in Spain smoke more than 50% at the beginning of her pregnancy.
Pregnant women who smoke tend to be young and with studies that do not exceed the basic general education.This supports the trend has been observed in our country with the highest cigarette smoking among adolescents and young women.
The severe effects of maternal smoking on the fetus and newborn, make women of childbearing age one group on that should influence a matter of priority measures aimed at preventing smoking.Health education in schools and the community should raise and educate girls and young women about the negative consequences of first use of snuff and other drugs during pregnancy and do not promote smoking initiation or cessation in the case of these harmful habits.
Visits to the Gynecologist’s consultation center or family planning should include appropriate information and motivation to get to abandonment.
Motivation is a key factor in smoking cessation and pregnancy can also be an event or impulse to strengthen this intention to quit.Pregnancy is often the determining factor to consider abandoning the snuff in the first quarter by these women to confirm the pregnancy.
All pregnant women should be informed about the negative effects that cause snuff in her unborn child if they stay with smoking during pregnancy and encourage them to make a serious attempt to quit.
Women who are in their first pregnancy, quit smoking at a higher rate, probably, the motivation here is more intense due to the illusion which gives them the arrival of their first child.
Other factors with evidence of being good predictors of cessation of snuff, as the number of cigarettes smoked, with those most consumed the least able quit.
In any case, has been the health of the unborn child is an important motivation to try to quit smoking in pregnant women.Many women would be unable to try and abandon their habit hard to preserve their health but the confirmation of pregnancy if your situation who are more prone to leave and often get it especially if they get help from your doctor or nurse.
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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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Quitting smoking – How to quit snuff
At the beginning of XXI century smoking remains the leading preventable cause of disease and premature death in Spain. If you smoke, you probably already know that snuff seriously threatens your health and your life, either personal experience or because the warning printed on each pack of snuff you buy are responsible to remind you.
The consumption of snuff is very harmful to your health
Tobacco in our country is today, the first single cause of preventable disease, disability and premature death. Each year, more than 50,000 people die prematurely in Spain due to the consumption of snuff. As many as if every day a plane crashed over a hundred passengers on board, without leaving any survivor.
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Smoking when pregnant harms grandchildren
Smoking during pregnancy can have detrimental effects on women and the fetus, but perhaps also for their future offspring. Specifically, for the grandchildren of the smoker, as revealed by the first analysis of the risks of trans cigarettes was carried out in Spain.
Snuff that is involved in a high percentage of tumors that are diagnosed in adulthood is beyond doubt. However, the role of nicotine in pediatric cancer is more controversial. To investigate this issue, a group of researchers from the Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Virgen de la Arrixaca and Hospital of Madrid, the capital, have for years made an analysis on the influence of exposure to snuff over three generations .
The study, published in April in the journal ‘Journal of Pediatrics and Child Health’ , evaluated data from 128 children with cancer born between 2001 and 2005 and as many healthy children as control group were compared. The researchers, led by Dr. Juan Antonio Ortega, the Environmental Health Unit Pediatric carefully collected data on the consumption of snuff from their mothers and grandmothers , and other environmental factors could be involved in its diagnosis.
“It’s the first time in humans, studies of childhood cancer, wondered if the grandmothers or grandfathers smoked and the degree of exposure during pregnancy grandmothers,” explains Dr. ELMUNDO.es Ortega, “there are studies in experimental animals and so we jump. “
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