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Snuff – High blood pressure and Cholesterol

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

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According to a study published in the medical journal British Medical Journal (BMJ), rates of mortality caused by coronary heart disease have declined significantly in the UK since the early ’70s, resulting in substantial improvements the average life.

Experts attribute these improvements to conditions such as the fight against smoking, changes in dietary patterns and lifestyles, and improved treatments for those affected by cardiovascular disease.

To date, previous studies had not taken into account the extent to which affected the life expectancy of different risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

But a group of researchers at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), led by Robert Clarke, focused on studying the association between these factors and life expectancy in the so-called “middle-aged men (between 40 and 69 years) .

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How to Quit Smoking

Monday, January 25th, 2010

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There have been several investigations into how to stop smoking. The following five steps according to the organization of the source of information for the health of U.S. women have proved effective:

1 – Set a goal: Set a date for which leave the cigar. Prepare for the day by pulling all cigarettes, ashtrays, lighters and other that comes to hand in your home, office or car. Concientisese write down all the reasons why you want to quit, read this list constantly.

2 – Get help. Cuentéele his family, friends and coworkers who are trying to quit smoking. Ask them not to smoke around you who do not leave cigarettes scope and not to invite smoking.

3 – Learn new habits and relax. Learn new things and learn to do things differently. When you feel the urge to smoke, try to do something different: talking with a friend, go for a walk or do something you enjoy like gardening or going to the movies. Try to reduce your stress by exercising, meditating, taking hot baths or reading. It is useful to plan in advance how to face in situations that trigger your desire to smoke. Drink plenty of water or other liquids will also help. You can also try changing your daily routine: try drinking tea instead of coffee, breakfast at another place, or going to work a different route. Distract yourself if you follow your old routine to be calling the cigar because it was part of this routine.

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Methods to stop smoking (I)

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

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Since snuff affects your body
There are few areas of the human body that are not affected by chemicals in cigarettes. Let’s take a tour of your body to look at how that affects the same snuff. 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. The teeth take yellow. Smokers may experience frequent headaches. And the lack of oxygen and reduction of blood vessels in the brain may lead to cerebrovascular disorders.

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Leaving snuff without gaining weight

Monday, January 18th, 2010

smoking and weight loss

There are a number of tips to avoid falling into temptation and being overcome by anxiety:

* Doing more sport (walking, running, gym, cycling, hiking …) and stay less indoors where there may be smoke.
* Do not start any scheme at the same time, contrary to eat well and almost everything to avoid starvation: eat many carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables (for vitamins, is important to take Vitamin C) and eat everything: meat, fish , chicken, … but boiled or grilled or baked, remove the fat and fried.
* Search-fat products, raw vegetables, juices, fruits, yogurts … to eat when one is tempted to eat or smoke. The fruit can replace the craving for something sweet and sugarless candies also entertain.
* Consumer products, which help to recover the body of smoking as soon as possible, by their content: omega-3s, B vitamins, carotenoids, such as: whole grains, watercress them, oily fish, carrots, and wheat germ.
* There are several products on the pharmacy to help pass the nicotine addiction that occurs: as the nozzles menthol, patches, gum, tea …
* Breathe deeply and air fill the abdomen helps remove the anxiety.
* Drink plenty of water between meals and a glass before meals, reduces appetite.
* Do not drink alcohol because it contains many calories, which is at those moments do not make us any fault and besides, we create more anxiety for the quick exit of nicotine produced by the influence of alcohol.

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Quit smoking and weight gain

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

smoking and diet

According to some studies on smoking, it was found that the fact, to be fattening to quit is because they eat more and not the very act of removing the snuff. In addition, fat is often about 2 Kg., That a year or so of quitting, are lost. So, on this basis, we know that if we stop smoking while we control our diet, do not get fat.

Anyway we have to say that some people do not gain weight from quitting smoking and are getting fatter because they have already weight problems, they hide food by replacing snuff.

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Stop smoking

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

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

The snuff, cancer and death
Smoking causes several deadly diseases, harms nearly every organ of the body and reduces the smoker’s lifetime. 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.

Since quitting
Quitting smoking as going to depend on each person. If you really want to quit smoking you will get it without a doubt, some need more effort than others but all conseguiréis. The as quitting smoking depends on each person, some will be easier than other methods, you will have to seek the best for you, tomároslo seriously and not give up, however hard it is, in a few weeks you will notice the benefits of quitting and your body will thank you.

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