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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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Effects of snuff on the young
The snuff on the health of young people has particular aspects that should be taken into account to see young people smoking. The World Health Organization in the pages dedicated to the risk of snuff (in English), presents an article on the effect of snuff in the young. Then I will present a translation of it.
In young people, the consequences of smoking are:
Short-term health effect of snuff consumption, including both respiratory and nonrespiratory effects, addiction to nicotine, and the risk associated with drug use other equally or more dangerous than snuff.
long-term effects of snuff on the health of young people increased by the fact that most young people who smoke regularly continue to smoke throughout adulthood. There is evidence that cigarette smokers have reduced lung function compared to people who have never smoked. In fact, smoking prevents normal lung development. Read the rest of this entry »
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Help to Stop Smoking
In the difficult task of abandoning the habit of snuff, we can find a lot of support especially family and friends, but we also use medicine to help in the process because it will be easier.
It is therefore appropriate to comment entourage wishes to quit, calling for understanding, support and respect, and above all to avoid smoking around yourself, or leave cigarettes in sight. As our supplier doctor or pharmacist, whom he will give us the right products to complement the treatment. We can also resort to individual counseling, either group or by telephone, as this will increase our chances of success, this aid is usually offered in hospitals, clinics and medical centers.
But most important is to learn to help ourselves through the force of will . We must try to think of something else and entertain us when we feel that the cravings assail us, talk to someone, walking , housework or exercise are good choices. We have to change routines, such as the way to work, trying to make a different route than some breakfast and tea instead of coffee.
To help relax and ease the emotional stress, we can take a hot bath late in the afternoon, this will help to disconnect from the stress. Drink plenty of fluid ( water and juices in particular) as well as relieve anxiety helps to eliminate toxins and improve health in general.
There are medicines that help in the quitting process and reduce the urge to smoke, we can find in pharmacies and as such we have the patches , inhalers and nicotine gum. In the latter case, it releases small doses of nicotine in the body, thus reducing withdrawal symptoms of snuff and facilitates its abandonment. It is advisable to use for a period of twelve weeks, at a rate of ten to fifteen gum daily, and these packages are the instructions to take them. It is inadvisable to drink coffee or soft drinks before, during and after taking these holes. But nothing will be achieved if there is not enough willpower, the initiative has to start from oneself.
The relapses usually occur in the first three months, so do not get discouraged if you fall once, just try again. It is also advisable to escape the possible risks, such as intake of alcoholic beverages, or places where there are many people smoking. The ex-smokers are very helpful in this regard, it can tell us how they overcame the addiction, the benefits have been obtained after leaving the habit and encourage us when relapse or attempts to quit.
The experience of a person who has been through the same trance is undoubtedly much more valuable than all the self-help manual that could fall into our hands, but can also be useful, among them the famous book” It’s easy to quit if know how “has sold many copies and has been a great help to people who at first were quite skeptical.
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Exercise Reduces the Urge to Smoke
We know that to quit smoking are multiple paths to follow, and specialized clinics are just one of them. Many of the solutions involve performing simple procedures that act on your subconscious to help your willpower to say no to cigarettes. The exercise is on the list.
Science has shown that exercise helps you stop smoking, but this time a study by the University of Exeter in the journal Addiction can yield new clues corroborating the influence that exercise has on your subconscious.
The research worked with a group of volunteer’s smokers, who were asked not to smoke for 15 hours before the experiment. Participants were shown neutral images before making fifteen minutes of exercise, and after that they returned to display images, this time, those related to situations associated with smoking. Read the rest of this entry »
A Good Day to Quit Smoking
The Office of Health and Consumer Affairs yesterday joined the celebration of World No Snuff by placing an information table at the gates of City Hall Regino Martinez Street. The council offered the travelers information leaflets on the problems caused by her smoking and snuff habits of life without, and inviting smokers to change their candy cigarettes. The local board of the Spanish Association Against Cancer in Algeciras also participated in the day with an information table. The Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC), which owns the local board, called yesterday for “confusing the reform of the Law of Snuff, especially with regard to its application in dance halls, gambling establishments and spaces public use and demanded the total prohibition of the consumption of snuff in that area.
The draft bill bans smoking in nightclubs, gaming facilities and public spaces during business hours “which allow entry to persons under eighteen years.” The AECC reiterated that the law should not stop smoking “in no time and before any public” and opined that “the total ban is easier to implement than the simple restrictions.
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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.