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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 »

Effects of nicotine on memory

nicotine on memoryIn addition to the toxic effects known to all, a new one is added to the list of problems caused by nicotine : the deterioration of skills in learning and memory. This result comes from a study conducted on mice, but such devastating risk to affect neurons of smokers.

The harmful effects of nicotine
It has long been known that nicotine , a substance involved in dependence snuff, stimulates memory and learning functions of smoking occasionally. However, today we know that produces the opposite effect on smoking usual.

This conclusion is suggested by the scientists who conducted the study with mice. The authors focused on a brain region implicated in memory processes. This area of the brain has the curious property of producing neurons throughout life.

Different doses of nicotine, all close to what a smoker inhales, were administered to mice. It was found that the greater the amount of nicotine and the greater the decrease in neuronal production capacity. These changes impact on the skills necessary for learning and memorization.

More recent studies are now needed to formally answer the following question: Are the results of laboratory mice, are valid for the brain man? Everything is seen, but the signs are too obvious to deny them entry.

Simple Ways to Stop Smoking

Before reading this article I want to ask first, if today you want to stop smoking? If there was a desire from the depths of your deepest heart, I personally congratulate. The decision you take is very appropriate for the health of yourself and the people around you. Given the high price of a pack of cigarettes recently, the decision is also very beneficial for the health of your pocket.

Once you are steady with that decision, begin to remove all things associated with smoking. Not only cigarettes and tool, also throw lighters, ashtrays and all associated with smoking. Now that you’re no longer a smoker so you do not need the objects anymore.

Clean up all objects in your house that still keeps the smell of cigarettes. This aims to avoid the emergence of another memory of the smell of cigarettes. Wash clothes, bed linen, towels, blankets and all of them. If there is money, buy a room air freshener so that you too well to change and no longer smell the smell of cigarettes that could lead to longing for a cigarette. Read the rest of this entry »

Tips to Quit Smoking

tips to quit smoking

You’ve heard by active and passive, but still, the habit of snuff is stronger and the smoker continues to smoke. Health from this blog you are going to propose a series of tips to quit smoking, that after all, smokers know it’s good for him and for those around him.

The first thing you have to do to quit is to want to. That is, having predisposition, intention and desire. You must trust yourself and know you can and you want to quit. Then, it is important not only stay in one intention and action passes. It is therefore necessary that the people around you help you. You have to surround yourself with positive thoughts and support.

Then, little by little you have to gradually reduce the dose of cigarettes you smoke per day. We also recommend that you mark a date for quitting, but yes, remember it is recommended that you do it gradually and when you get to smoke one cigarette a day, leave it, and mark you the deadline.

One of the main problems posed by smoking is a habit. Well, I know it is difficult to avoid situations in which the body asks for smoking, as with coffee, so the advice is rather that you do not habituate. At first you have to avoid these situations where you smoke, but little by little you have to go picking up the habit of smoking.

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Quit Smoking Aid

quit smoking aid

When you begin a new year, we all new proposals, that if going to the gym, if slim, that if quit … Who has not considered any of these proposals?, It is interesting to know that there is cessation aids smoking. IF YOU WANT, YOU CAN.

All smokers have been raised once in your life to quit smoking. By the way, is advice that I give you if you are smoking, keep it. Smoking harms the body and smoking around him, also creates dependence on nicotine. There are 29 types of diseases associated with snuff, including 10 different types of cancers.

If you want to quit the first thing you do is think and then decide. You have to make the idea that you can not smoke. It is important to have the willpower to do so. If you really want to smoke, relax, get air and think about something you do not get stressed. Yes, I know it’s hard but you must first get the idea. It’s also good to drink plenty of fluids: water or juice.

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As the snuff affects your body

snuff affectsThere are few areas of the human body that are affected by chemicals in cigarettes. Let’s take a tour of your body to discuss how the affecting snuff it. We hope this information will encourage you to stop smoking or at least try.

Starting up

As a smoker, you have the risk of mouth cancer. Snuff smoke can also cause gum disease, tooth decay and bad breath. Take teeth yellow. Smokers may experience frequent headaches. And the lack of oxygen and reduction of blood vessels in the brain may lead to cerebrovascular disorders.

Bronchi and lungs

Take the chest, smoke passes through the bronchi. Hydrogen cyanide and other chemicals in the smoke attack the lining of the bronchial tubes swell and cause chronic cough in a smoker. Because the bronchi are weakened, you’re more likely to have chest infections. Read the rest of this entry »

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Cigarettes have Become Extreme Anxiety (II)

CigarettesThe 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 »

Tips to quit smoking

Tips to quit smokingYou’ve heard it both actively and passively, but even so, the habit of snuff is stronger and the smoker continues to smoke. Health From this blog you are going to propose a series of tips to quit smoking, that after all, the smoker knows that is good both for himself and those around him.

The first thing you have to do to quit is to want to. That is, be predisposed, intention and desire. You must trust yourself and know that you can and want to quit. Then, it is important not only stay and spend an intention to action. For this you need people around you help you. You have to surround yourself with positive thoughts and support.

Then, little by little you have to gradually reduce the dose of cigarettes you smoke per day. We also recommend that you mark a deadline to leave, but yes, remember that it is recommended that you do it gradually and when you get to smoke one cigarette a day, leave it, and be certain to score the deadline. Read the rest of this entry »

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Why is it hard to quit

Just know that smoker, those who suffer the symptoms of nicotine and wonder again and again why is it so hard to stop smoking? In our health blog have tried from different points of view to nicotine addiction and the problem of snuff. On this occasion, we wanted to go a little further to try to find the reasons why so hard to quit.

Mainly so hard to quit because she just becoming a habit and creating an addiction to nicotine is difficult to control. Prolonged use of nicotine leads to tolerance, dependence and withdrawal. For all this is so hard to quit.

We can say that smoking makes you have physical dependence, psychological and social.

This is a physical dependence on nicotine, ie nicotine is a drug, and once your body has gotten used to taking it, need it, the person wants to smoke more, it affects the whole organism.

It is also very important psychological component, and that to quit smoking, you want to do, you know that you want to quit. I always say that everything is in the head, and it’s all about trying. You have to have willpower and want to stop smoking. Read the rest of this entry »

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Some Ideas to Quit Smoking

Some Ideas to Quit Smoking

Quit smoking for many is a very difficult decision to make and even harder to actually do it. That’s why when a person chooses to do so must be encouraged and motivated to continue firm in its stance and stop once and for all so unhealthy habit.

Some choose to change the cigarette gum, others eat more than they should and there are those who choose to engage in sport. But to start quitting all he needed to first step, i.e., smoking the last cigarette. And that moment is perhaps the most difficult.

So to help you take that first step, let’s see now some tips to start quitting. Fun ideas for motivating you to go.

* Burying the evidence. Take the last pack of cigarettes and bury it, is like making a “funeral” this nasty habit. On the other hand if you still have the urge to smoke would have to dig and bury it again, thus going to hinder the arrival of a cigar, and in the process of “digging, burying and digging up” are you sure the urge to smoke .

* Costs. Take a monthly calculation of all the money you spend on cigarettes and then with that amount you would think everything but you spent on cigarettes and could use that money on other things. Interesting, no?
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