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Pregnancy and smoking

Pregnancy and smokingFor many years it is known that the effects of snuff on pregnant women produces a greater risk of abortion or increased perinatal mortality, so it has been shown that children of women in gestational period who habitually snuff, are at risk of being born with less weight than normal.

Keep in mind that the fetus receives any component that the mother has in her body, therefore if the mother smokes, the fetus will be exposed to dozens of poisonous elements in the smoke of snuff and for this reason it is especially recommended for a woman during pregnancy quit.

Quitting the best decision
During pregnancy it is always advised quitting smoking, but ultimately the mother who decides to abandon this habit or not. However, it will raise this issue very seriously, as it seriously compromises the health of the baby. For this reason, pregnancy is a perfect occasion to consider quit smoking since the gestation period (approximately nine months), the addictive components of snuff have disappeared completely from the body and is much easier not to relapse.

Possible damage to fetus
Babies born to smoking mothers are exposed to several risks:
There is more risk of being born prematurely or weighing too low. This can cause future complications. They usually weigh an average 200 grams less than the average. Are almost double risk of death from sudden infant. It has shown a direct relationship between this and the smoking of the father or mother.

They are more likely to suffer diseases common during the first years of life.Worldwide, more doctor visits and must be hospitalized more frequently than children of nonsmoking parents.

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Smoking cessation techniques

Smoking cessationThis is not an easy topic to which you can present simple methods to immediately stop the act, or so complicated as to say that is impossible. Honestly, this article has many more words than it deserves this, but you must meet the required duty and try to get you, smokers and smokers who want to stop this practice, have patience to read these paragraphs and, if possible, without smoking. Smoking is one of many habits that a person may acquire or be imposed at times. An unhealthy habit, clarification, and quitting is a mixture of iron will and maybe some “hands” we expect, smokers and smokers, could be used for recovery.

Do not consider smoking as a prize. Big mistake. You need to encourage or congratulate other than smoking, because then you are digging your grave instead of actually helping. What can you dig your grave that sounds hard or hard, but it is a powerful metaphor, admittedly. If after eating, having sex, finish a job, get somewhere, let someone somewhere, and so on., You think you deserve a cigarette, try to say or install on your mind: “No, there are a award cigarette. You are an enemy. “Try it and maybe you can start slowly tease. Read the rest of this entry »

Smoking when pregnant harms grandchildren

smoking and pregnant

Smoking during pregnancy can have detrimental effects on women and the fetus, but perhaps also for their future offspring. Specifically, for the grandchildren of the smoker, as revealed by the first analysis of the risks of trans cigarettes was carried out in Spain.

Snuff that is involved in a high percentage of tumors that are diagnosed in adulthood is beyond doubt. However, the role of nicotine in pediatric cancer is more controversial. To investigate this issue, a group of researchers from the Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Virgen de la Arrixaca and Hospital of Madrid, the capital, have for years made ​​an analysis on the influence of exposure to snuff over three generations .

The study, published in April in the journal ‘Journal of Pediatrics and Child Health’ , evaluated data from 128 children with cancer born between 2001 and 2005 and as many healthy children as control group were compared. The researchers, led by Dr. Juan Antonio Ortega, the Environmental Health Unit Pediatric carefully collected data on the consumption of snuff from their mothers and grandmothers , and other environmental factors could be involved in its diagnosis.

“It’s the first time in humans, studies of childhood cancer, wondered if the grandmothers or grandfathers smoked and the degree of exposure during pregnancy grandmothers,” explains Dr. ELMUNDO.es Ortega, “there are studies in experimental animals and so we jump. “

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Quitting smoking during pregnancy

pregnancyQuitting is not easy. Cravings, irritability, the powerful desire to smoke “last cigarette” are sometimes overwhelming. However, now that you’re pregnant, you probably realize the importance of saying goodbye to this habit.

Although you tried before without success, this time you can achieve. Approximately 40 percent of smokers who try during pregnancy, get it (a much higher success rate than women who are not pregnant). Yet, many continue their habit, which increases the risk of having a premature delivery, the baby is born with low birth weight or other complications arise, such as vaginal bleeding and spontaneous abortions .

What differentiates you stop those who continue smoking? In general, pregnant women who quit smoking are not necessarily stronger or smarter. Nor does it mean they want more babies. The difference is simply that adopt better strategies to achieve their goal. Each person is different and what one serves, perhaps another will not fare so well, but there are several smoking cessation techniques that stand out for their effectiveness. BabyCenter offers you these five strategies to quit snuff. Read the rest of this entry »

Are You Ready to Quit Smoking?

are you ready to quit

Easier said than done is a long way. That is, as much as a smoker say you will quit smoking, you have to put it, has to have intent and above all, must want to quit. So many people are not really aware that you want to quit and jump to the fore the question: are you ready to quit smoking?

You can have low motivation to quit smoking or you can be pretty motivated, but not be ready to face the challenge of leaving aside the bloody snuff.

There are aspects that can influence aware when to quit. For example, if you smoke for smoking, if you do it as a social habit, if you most concerned about smoking is gaining weight, if you agree to follow a plan to quit, then you are more ready to quit. Psychological issues are more affordable, because if you smoke because you have anxiety and do not want to quit, is more complicated than bring it to fruition.

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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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When He Wanted to Quit

when he wanted to quit smoking

After the discussion you had yesterday on the smoking ban and its consequences, I wondered how I was when I smoked, and what my position today if it were a drug addict. Because I smoked a whopping 30 years, from 14 to 44 years old.

Fortunately or unfortunately for me, I leave my trail of thought, not always linear, not always consistent, as my own life, like a shared diary from the media when I was publishing opinion columns. On May 11, 1989, almost 22 years ago, I wrote a column in the newspaper La Gaceta de los Negocios, of which he was Editor in Chief, which explained my fears for my numerous failed attempts to quit smoking. It was titled “One of these days I quit” and then you play it for you to understand why one of my favorite meditations: “Every day I do not believe in less things.” There he goes. I start off my clothes.

One of my biggest obsessions is to stop smoking. It invest much of my energy. I’ve tried so often and sometimes I enrolled in English classes, my other unmentionable vice. Of the latter was curin to remember that my strength was sufficiently rich taylor, while I lost money and time to baskets. Above all, time. Because, says a friend of mine, whites enjoy more leisure time than the Spanish because they do not take overtime to learn English.

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Okay, I decided to try to quit. What should I do to be successful this time?

quit smokingExcellent! This is a very positive step. There are some things you can do before quitting to help you increase your chances of success:

* If you’ve tried to quit before, think about why it did not work. What can you do this time to help you succeed?
* Tell your family and friends you’re quitting. Ask them not to bother you or make fun about it, because you really mean it. Ask them to give support, not smoking around you and not offering you cigarettes.
* Throw out all your cigarettes, lighters and ashtrays. If you’re going to be a nonsmoker, do not need these things again.
* Talk to your doctor about nicotine replacement methods. The nicotine chewing gum, patches, sprays and some new medications can really help people stop smoking. However, for these products work, it is important to use them the right way. Read the rest of this entry »

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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Stop smoking

Stop smokingSnuff addictive effect

If you tried to quit once you know how difficult this is. This is because nicotine is a highly addictive drug and some people can be as addictive as heroin or cocaine.

The snuff, cancer and death

Smoking causes many deadly diseases, harms nearly every organ in the body and reduces the life of the smoker.

Some of the worst diseases that smoking causes are leukemia, stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer, renal cancer, pneumonia, cataracts, and periodontitis. Besides these problems must include bladder, larynx, lung and throat cancers, cardiovascular disease and chronic lung diseases. Read the rest of this entry »

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