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Smoking is so little health hazard as do every day
Smokers ‘social’, those who do not do every day or who do not exceed 10 cigarettes a day, have almost the same probability of cardiovascular disease than the most active.
For too long, doctors insist the damage smoking causes both heavy smokers as liabilities, but did not put enough emphasis on the damage that light smokers also suffer, ie that light smokers and also sporadic (those who do not daily ), “said Dr. Alejandro Videla, pulmonologist and coordinator of the Smoking Clinic, Hospital Universitario Austral.
In general, when we think about smoking cessation, we are reminded of a “smoker type” addict, consuming more than 10 cigarettes per day. The problem is that casual smokers are increasing and pose a challenge to the health system because they are not considered “smokers” , which fosters the myth that smoking every bit as much and does not hurt.
“While it is clear that a person who smokes a pack of cigarettes per day has a greater risk charge than that which it does daily, they also have chances of getting smoking related diseases, “said the specialist. Read the rest of this entry »
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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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Tips to Quit Smoking (Part 1)
We all know the problems associated with smoking. However, many people can not stop smoking and some do not to disregard the information necessary to do so. The aim of this paper will then serve as a guide for all those people who are looking to stop smoking and do not know what to do to achieve that result.
1. Assume the responsibility
Many people do not take responsibility for their decisions. What does this mean? In this context, we mean that if we are to stop smoking , only we can do it. We need to fully understand this idea in order to be successful. This does not mean we can not help. However, we need to become strong and take responsibility for what we want to achieve a sound and safe. We need to believe in us.
2. Share with others
The second step will be to tell your loved ones what we do. Tell your family and your closest friends you are quitting and ask for help. Probably, depending on the level of addiction or habit, the first few weeks you will feel some irritation, so it’s good that the people you normally try, know that your character will be conditioned on your decision to quit smoking. Read the rest of this entry »
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Can Quitting Smoking Get Rid of Back Pain?
If you’re a smoker, no doubt you’ve heard all the lectures on how bad cigarettes are for your lungs and heart. Every package of cigarettes sold in the US bears warning labels stating the bad things that smoking does to your body. But did you know that smoking may be contributing to your back pain?
The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) conducted a study in which they found that smoking restricts blood supply to the bones and can adversely affect bone density. This increases your risk of osteoporosis, a disease that is very hard on the back.
When blood flow is restricted to the vertebrae, the discs cushioning them can become more brittle, increasing the risk of a ruptured disk. Furthermore, the typical smokers’ cough also puts pressure on the spine.
If you have back pain, you may have tried effective lifestyle changes like increasing exercise and using an ergonomic chair for work. But if you quit smoking, you’ll benefit your back even more, particularly if you face back surgery down the road. Bone healing is slower in smokers, as is wound healing.
A study on spinal fusion surgery for the lower back found that while 70% of non-smokers were able to return to work after surgery, only about 50% of smokers were able to return to work. However, this risk is reversible if you quit smoking at least two weeks before surgery and refrain from smoking for at least six months afterward. If you’re able to do that, you should be able to kick the habit for good!
The evidence for the harmful effects of smoking continues to build, and those effects go beyond the lungs and heart. Having a healthier back is one more good reason to quit smoking.
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.
Tips for quitting
Although quitting smoking is not as easy as some suppose, here you can find some useful methods to quit this bad habit.
The difficult choice
Quitting smoking is not as easy as some suppose. Once the person has the habit, it becomes an important part of your life. And let it be as you are missing something to it. According to experts, is to end this silly idea to leave the snuff is resolved in all cases with the effort and willingness of the smoker. Because in reality it is a serious addiction that often requires treatment with drugs.
Therefore, expert help is essential if the addict can quit, because what causes the withdrawal is, for many, something hard to bear: cravings, headache, dizziness and vertigo, irritability, tremor interior, lack of concentration, hand tremors, loss of appetite, eye pain, nausea, vomiting, taste changes, anxiety, eating, muscle twitching, tiredness, weakness, sweating hands, tingling in the skin.
Stages of the smoker
when the smoker decides to quit go through a series of temporal processes in attitude towards the habit. At first, the smoker enjoys smoking and does not pose any problem, it is a consonant smoker. At this stage, precontemplation, smokers are under 30 years, no associated diseases or not to snuff. Read the rest of this entry »
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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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Time to quit snuff limit: 15 weeks of gestation
Women who smoke during pregnancy are three times more likely to have premature labor and double the child is smaller than normal. However, those who quit smoking before their fourth month of pregnancy seem to have these problems, according to an Australian study. A further incentive, the authors note, for expectant mothers leave the snuff.
Everyone knows that smoking is bad for almost everything also for the passage of pregnancy and the fetus. The consumption of snuff is associated with an increased risk of spontaneous abortion, ectopic pregnancy, fetal and neonatal death, premature delivery, low birth weight, and so on. In addition, children of mothers who smoke may develop certain disorders such as heart attacks, hyperactivity or hypertension.
Numerous studies have examined the relationship of snuff with these problems but “very few have investigated whether there is a critical point which is due before quitting to prevent pregnancy complications associated with this habit, “the authors emphasize the work in the pages the journal ‘British Medical Journal .
The first-time participants were women who were part of a larger study on pregnancy in Australia and New Zealand. In total, 2,504 pregnant women, of which 1992 were non-smokers, 251 smokers and 261 who had left the snuff before week 15 of gestation. Read the rest of this entry »
Pregnancy and smoking
Recently I heard a few say no pregnant women quit smoking because the doctor has told them that the greater the damage that occurs in the future baby’s anxiety to let it snuff itself. I’ve been researching on the net about this issue and it seems that the mother’s anxiety in the period from week 12 to 22 strongly influences on the fetus and can cause emotional disorders in childhood.
But until week 12? Today, most pregnancies are planned, for l The mother has the opportunity to stop smoking before becoming pregnant. Ideally, a year earlier so that the body gets cleansed of the effects of snuff, but you do not go that far. Just try to leave when he vows to become pregnant. Of course it’s hard to stop an addiction, but we are talking about having a baby. Make such a decision is important enough to motivate us to try and today there are all kinds of therapies to help stop the snuff. Even in clinics, family doctors can help.
If it’s an unplanned pregnancy, since we found out about the 8th week until the 12 th we have 4 weeks to quit or at least be reducing the amount of cigarettes. To motivate a fact: maternal smoking causes an increase.
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Smoking pregnancy, better safe than sorry
For many years we know that the lifestyle of a pregnant woman with pregnancy greatly influences healthy baby and a healthy pregnancy.
If smoking is present during pregnancy are at increased risk of spontaneous abortion and perinatal mortality is an index that counts the numbers of deaths of fetuses and newborns following a reproductive process unhealthy or unhealthy pregnancy.
The smoking during pregnancy risks women’s health and being in gestation and that inhaling cigarette smoke alter the environment in which that being is developed.
It is proven that children of women with smoking not deserted him during pregnancy are more likely to suffer sudden death, and in less severe cases, acute respiratory diseases.
Concrete scientific data say the children of women with smoking not deserted him during the pregnancy experience different situations: Read the rest of this entry »
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