Smoking and It’s Effects


Stop Smoking

Stop Smoking

Why stop smoking ?

Smokers need support from the social. Stop smoking, no doubt, needs determination, commitment and desire. But the knowledge of more and more with the preparations and options may also be effective ways to quit smoking. Smokers need a plan that the slow reduction of smoking in the smoking process, which includes different needs.

Smoking seems so difficult. This is not an easy task, a habit of life, to eliminate once part of life. That is why we need a firm decision to take the stop before the application in different ways to smoke.

Most people know that smoking can cause health problems such as lung cancer. And not only you but also for the people around you. Smoking kills over 114,000 people in the UK each year.

How smoking causes health problems?

Cigarettes contain over 4,000 chemicals and at least 400 toxic substances. When you inhale, a cigarette burns at 700 ° C at the top and around 60 ° C in the core. This heat breaks the tobacco to produce various toxins. As a cigarette burns, the residues are concentrated towards the butt.

The most harmful products are:

  • Nicotine is addictive and increases cholesterol levels in the body
  • Tar, a carcinogen (substance that cancer)
  • Carbon monoxide, oxygen in the body
  • Phase components of gas and particles cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

The damage caused by smoking is influenced by:

  • The number of cigarettes smoked
  • The tobacco produced.
  • Whether the cigarette has a filter

Hurting Others

Smoking damages not only the smoker but also family members, colleagues and others who breathe the smoke of the cigarette smoker, called secondhand smoke or passive smoking. In infants up to age 18 months, secondhand smoke is associated with no fewer than 300,000 cases of bronchitis and pneumonia each year. In addition, increased secondhand cigarette smoke from a parent a child’s chances for middle ear problems, causes coughing and wheezing, worsens asthma, and increases the risk that a child died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke can also cause cancer. Research has shown that non-smokers who live with a smoker cancer by 24% increased risk of lung cancer compared to other smokers. About 3,000 deaths from lung cancer occur each year in the United States, which are caused by passive smoking. Secondhand smoke increases the risk of stroke and heart disease. If both parents smoke, smoking, a teenager is more than twice as high as for young people whose parents are both nonsmokers. Selbst in Haushalten, in denen nur ein Elternteil raucht, sind junge Menschen eher mit dem Rauchen zu beginnen. Pregnant women who smoke are more likely in babies whose weights are too low to deliver healthy babies. In fact, it was estimated that if all women quit smoking during pregnancy, about 4,000 children die each year

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One Response to “Smoking and It’s Effects”

  1. Michelle Rodriguez Says:

    I’ve been a smoker for the past 30 years so obviously I’m really worried about this too. But I switched over to new, healthy cigarettes recently and now my lungs are on the mend. Follow me at http://healthysmoker.blogspot.com!

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