Quit Smoking Blog

The cigarette works as a staff that provides an alleged relief and immediate satisfaction or the illusion that everything can be addressed with little effort, for example an interview, warn psychologists who specialize in addictions.

Faced with the decision to quit smoking are doubts and fears. One of the most typical is the fear of suffering. It is common in people already tried to quit at some point, become discouraged by the mere memory of the suffering that brought this attitude.

This suffering, “explain the specialists-are linked to the withdrawal syndrome from the standpoint of organic cause of anxiety, nervousness, sleep disturbances, aches different, cough, etc..) Moreover, from the psychic sphere can be seen lounging on the cigarette as a staunch friend, a companion of loneliness and moments of anguish, a moderator of the dreaded emotional reactions such as anger and sadness. (more…)

The 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 . (more…)

The World Health Organization (WHO) decided that every 31 May is taken as the day on which both governments, communities, organizations, schools, families and individuals focus their attention on the seriousness of the tobacco epidemic. The WHO’s objective is to take drastic measures to prevent youth addiction to nicotine, particularly to protect them and protect them from the risks that implies bad habit.

The event is presented each year as an opportunity for smokers trying to put aside to snuff, at least for 24 hours, taking a first step toward liberation from mental slavery and organic.

Recognized by WHO as an addiction, smoking creates both organic and psychic dependence. But addiction is a very particular because, unlike others, is socially accepted. (more…)