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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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The Smoking During Pregnancy
Smoking is a major public health problem. All smokers are at increased risk for lung cancer, other lung diseases, cardiovascular problems and other health problems. Smoking during pregnancy can endanger the health of the woman and her unborn baby. Currently, at least 10 percent of women in the U.S. smoke during pregnancy 1.
18 percent of women in the United States and other industrialized countries smoke 2. In developing countries is about 8 percent. Many of these women smoke while pregnant.
The statistics on what happens in the U.S. are strong. If all pregnant women stopped smoking in the United States, the number of stillbirths would drop by 11 percent and the number of deaths of newborn babies in a 5For percent, according to estimates by the Public Health Service of the United United 1 . Currently in the United States, at least 11 percent of women smoke during pregnancy. 2
Cigarette smoke contains over 2,500 chemicals. No one knows for sure what harm the developing baby, but it is believed that both nicotine and carbon monoxide can cause the pregnancy does not have the desired result.
What causes smoke damage in the newborn?
Smoking nearly doubles the risk of low birth weight baby. In the United States in 2002, 12.2 percent of babies born to smoking mothers with low birth weight (less than 5.5 libras/2.5 kg) compared with 7.5 percent of babies born to nonsmoking mothers. 2 The low weight birth may result from insufficient development of the baby in the womb, premature delivery, or both. It has long been known that smoking slows fetal growth, and studies suggest it also increases the risk of preterm delivery (before 37 weeks gestation). Premature and low birthweight are at higher risk for serious health problems during the first months of life, permanent disability (including cerebral palsy, mental retardation and learning problems) and even death.
The more a pregnant woman smokes, the greater the risk to the baby of low birth weight. Also, if you quit at the end of the first trimester of pregnancy, have virtually the same chances that your baby is born with low weight a woman who never smoked. Even if she fails to quit in the first or second trimester, if at all during the third the baby’s development can be improved.
A recent study suggests that women who smoke at any time from the month before pregnancy to the end of the first quarter are more likely to have a baby with birth defects, particularly congenital heart defects 6 . The risk of heart defects seems to increase with the number of cigarettes a woman smokes.
Can smoking cause pregnancy complications? Read the rest of this entry »
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How to stop smoking and not die trying
Well, that I want to know me. Not that I smoke a lot depends on who I compare course, but if I smoke enough to be disgusted and its consequences and most of all of their dependency.
To me a packet of snuff lasts a couple of days more or less normal days, labor and without leaving home except to work. If we talked about beers or go out for drinks the issue is triggered and the statistics become confused, not know how much you’ve smoked and how much you’ve given to others.
But to me what I want is that, become a “social smoker” which is a variant highly prized among men, while rare, and instead is very common among women. Which is not the gene or whatever but the fact is I know many women (more than 20 and less than 80) than during the week do not remember anything about the snuff to even offer them and put you in disgust. However, as I put a beer or a glass (I think it would also work with a pencil) are able to get his fist in the mouth or metered package snuff fire at one side and vacuum on the other. Read the rest of this entry »
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Compelling reasons for not smoking
Is it bad to smoke? o Is it just propaganda? One in 5 women in the U.S. smoke despite all government efforts to raise awareness about the dangers of this vice. In Latin America, the statistics are better but many women live surrounded by absorbing snuff smoking even during pregnancy.
Why is it important to quit smoking
There are many reasons to quit smoking these are a few:
Smoking causes health problems:
1 – Smoking increases the risk of several types of cancer, lung cancer being the most common but also increases the risk of other cancers such as cancer of the throat, mouth, larynx, esophagus, pancreas, kidney, bladder, cervix, stomach and leukemia, or blood cancer.
2 – Increased risk of serious pulmonary problems such as emphysema, chronic bronchitis, bronchitis and pneumonia.
3 – Health Issues in the heart and arteries such as aortic aneurysms, atherosclerosis, or hardening and narrowing of the arteries and increases the organism’s tendency to form blood clots.
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Teens and snuff consumption
According to statistics, most addicted smokers start smoking to snuff when they are between 11 and 14 years.
Many teenagers start smoking because they do many of his friends. In this regard it is important to teach your child the value of knowing how to say no to certain things. Despite the typical first teasing, his friends will not think evil in your children etc. simply by rejecting a cigarette. On the contrary, although they do not say aloud, many will have more respect for his decision.
Other teens start smoking as a way of rebelling against their parents, school or society in general. The rebellion is part of adolescence and somewhat inevitable, but there are things you can do to help you stop the snuff. Of course, your job is easier if you do not smoke. Otherwise, you have much more difficult.