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filed in Effects Of Smoking on Apr.25, 2009
The effects of smoking on people are often long term. But many few people know that the reversing effects of smoking starts from the very initial cigarette that you keep on your lips. Most people across the globe are properly aware about the hazardous effects of the cigarettes on their health, but still they do not want to quit it. Many people think that smoking cigarettes make them look sexier amongst his/ her peers and associates. But, this is a very stupid and irrelevant thought. Nor you look sexy; neither have you looked cool while smoking cigarettes. If you are not properly aware about the early effects of smoking, then the present article would help you to a great extent.
First of all, your heart would get affected due to smoking. The circulatory system that is linked up with the heart would also be adversely affected due to your cigarette smoking. Your circulatory system will have to undergo a lot of stress while functioning. The blood which is flowing through your arteries would also flow in a flawed manner. Your blood vessels would gradually get tapered due to your evil habit. Even, there are numerous hazardous effects of smoking on weight of yours. Fatty deposits would start getting deposited in your arteries and gradually there would be very less space for the flow of blood. Your heart would have to bear a lot of pressure and in longer run; you may have to deal with various heart related problems, just because of your smoking habits.
Your respiratory system would also get pessimistically affected because of your cigarette smoking habit. If you have any sort of allergies, the habit of cigarette smoking would add to them. Irritability in your chest would increase because of smoking. Due to smoking, your cilia are totally paralyzed. Cilia are extremely necessary for stopping the irritants from entering our respiratory system. Once they are paralyzed you have to face a lot of problems. The number of your coughs and colds would increase rapidly. You would also have constant itching within your nose and eyes.
Even, your digestive system would have to bear up with numerous hazardous effects of cigarette smoking. The toxins that are normally found in the cigarettes would ruin the lining of your bowels. The acid in your stomach would increase to an outsized extent. The discomfort and pain in your stomach would increase because of smoking. Your appetite would also get reduced. Even your power of tasting would go bland. Sense to smell would also deteriorate due to smoking.
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filed in Effects Of Smoking on Apr.22, 2009
Are you not aware that cigarettes will kill you. Smoking is not good for your health. Everybody has to die one day but by smoking you will die soon as compared to anon smoker. Smoking kills more people than alcohol or car accidents.
Let’s see what make smoking dangerous.
Cigarettes are made up of dried tobacco leaves that contain around 4,000 chemicals which are hazardous to the health. From this 4,000 chemicals 60 are carcinogenic or cancer causing agents. In addition, tobacco and tobacco smoke have co-carcinogens that don’t lead to cancer but can accelerate its growth.
Nicotine causes addiction. Nicotine has a property of activating the receptor present in the brain. Because of nicotine the smokers become tired very soon as they become physically addicted. The smoke inhaled has carbon monoxide which can bind to hemoglobin more rapidly as compared to oxygen. As the cells are not supplied with sufficient oxygen, he is deprived with energy. The physical activities like swimming, walking, exercise etc.
• Seventy-five percent of smokers started when they were teenagers.
• Smoking during pregnancy can cause spontaneous abortion, fetal death, and low birth weight.
• Cigarette smoking causes shortness of breath, emphysema, and heart disease.
• Cigarette smoking also causes lung cancer, and cancer of the mouth, throat, and esophagus.
The list of disease related to cigarette can go on and on. It is true that smoking cigarette will not kill you today but it will surely kill your tomorrow.
Now we will go through some of very small problems which a smoker is suffering today but which are going to become chronic tomorrow.
• Formation of cough
• Coughing up blood
• Trouble in breathing
• Wheezing
• Headache
• Chest pain
• Fatigue
• Loss of appetite
• Weight loss
• Fatigue
• Hoarseness
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filed in quit smoking on Apr.21, 2009
Stop smoking it might secure your future. As soon as you stop smoking the series of beneficial changes start taking place.
The immediate benefits of quitting smoking is that within 20 minutes your blood pressure drops to normal, increased circulation in hands, and pulse rate drops to normal. The temperature of your hand and feet also returns to normal.
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filed in Effects Of Smoking on Apr.20, 2009
One and all knows that “smoking is dreadful for an individual” Teenagers are eternal. Teenagers live forever. At least that’s the way it seemed when I was a teenager. Teenagers in this age want to be different from others. Smoking gives them this feeling. Because it is so prohibited it becomes more appealing to teens. The problem is that when they take that first puff, they can become addicted. But unknowingly they breaks the law and go against their parents and schools .The teens like to get attention whether it’s a good attention or bad attention that is least important for them. They think that by smoking they get big attention. The other teens look at them in all kinds of ways and the adults get disappoint and don’t know what to do. Why smoking is so addicting? Nicotine, a major compound present in the tobacco act as a stimulant, that actually stimulates your mind, spirit and body. When the body acceptance levels high then one ends up needing to use larger doses of nicotine to uphold a certain level of the physiological effect. When the body becomes habituated to the presence of nicotine, it then requires the use of the chemical to help the body to function usually. This level of dependence is called as an addiction. Cigarette smoking teens should know that what harm chemicals can do the body. Here are some dangerous facts about what smoking does to you: • Teen smokers have smaller lungs and a weaker heart than teen non-smokers. They also get sick more often than teens who don’t smoke. • From smokers a bad smell continues to come, it stains their teeth, and gives a bad breath. • Smoking lowers your hormone levels. • Smokers get 3 times more cavities than non-smokers. • Teens smoking cigarettes are likely to have cough that lasts for a longer period of time and further may give other complications. Teenagers should focus on the following point, that when you decide to smoke you are doing exactly what the tobacco companies want you to do. They millions of money on advertising try to get new people, especially teens to smoke. Once you are addicted means then you are forced to buy their product in order to support your addiction. So the teens smoking cigarettes, now being aware of the facts of smoking should quit smoking. By quitting smoking they are not only making safe their present but also future is getting secured.
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filed in Effects Of Smoking on Apr.17, 2009
One cannot count on his finger, that many diseases are caused by smoking tobacco.
1. Cardiovascular diseases
2. Lung diseases
3. Kidney diseases
4. Diseases related to skin
5. Diseases related to eye
6. Diseases related to respiratory tract
Majorly, the lungs are affected but we cannot hide this fact also that 20% of all deaths are due to heart diseases that are directly related to cigarette smoking.
Smoking increases heart disease risk. The nicotine is a compound which is the leading factor for causing heart disease.
1. Increases blood pressure and heart rate
2. Increases blood clotting
3. Decreased oxygen supply to the heart
4. Damaging to cells that line coronary arteries and other blood vessels.
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filed in Effects Of Smoking on Apr.17, 2009
Acupressure is a simple, non time consuming, non invasive and drug free treatment that can be used to prevent and improve the symptoms of many diseases and illnesses. By exerting pressure on the certain points it aids in removing the energy blockages and allowing the body to function in optimal health.
Acupressure has proved beneficial in cessation of smoking in a number of ways. With the help of Acupressure the body’s natural processes get strengthen up which help in removing out the toxins and improving the discomfort of withdrawal from nicotine or other harmful compounds. By pressing the points an individual feel relaxation. There are also specific points which are thought to communicate to the restraint of habitual appetites, such as overeating or smoking.
Acupressure has shown rapid, lasting and impressive results, particularly in aiding people to get relieved from the nicotine with fewer unpleasant side effects than usual. Some treatments are such where the cigarette smoking becomes tasteless which help an individual to quit smoking easily. This method has still very much important as it work out well.
Obviously acupressure may not be the first method to be the one that first comes to mind as many other methods are available. But if you have tried other methods and you have got little success then on can go for acupressure. It stimulates the natural healing process and provides relief from the unpleasant sensation which ultimately helps out in quitting smoking.
Acupressure to quit smoking is a good option. In the ear several such point are located so require a very specific treatment approach than other more easily accessed points on the body. The major advantage by going with acupressure is lack of side effect. Some ear magnets are available called as Auricular Therapy, by this therapy the production of neurotransmitters in the brain to minimize the will to smoke.
The other point is lung meridian; it helps in getting relief from stressed breathing, asthma, coughing and chest pain. This point also helps in giving relaxation from fatigue, irritability and confusion.
To be successful, an individual need to get acupressure treatment which will actually help them in terms of quitting smoking.
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filed in Effects Of Smoking on Apr.16, 2009
Are you aware of the diseases caused by smoking if no then let’s take a look that may help us to fight against it.
Smoking affects all the vital organs of our body which includes lungs, heart, kidney, eyes, respiratory tract and digestive tract.
The most common that is lung disease are caused by smoking.
1. COPD that is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease the name itself suggest that it is a long term lung disease. Majorly 80 to 90 percent of people lung diseases are caused by cigarette smoking. Not only smokers are prone to COPD but even the passive smokers are having chances of getting COPD. Due to the hazardous compounds present in the smoke it affects the airways. The walls of airways become thick and swollen.
2. Emphysema is a part of COPD where the damage of air sac occurs because of which the absorption of oxygen decreases.
3. Chronic Bronchitis it is a part of COPD. Here the infection occurs in bronchi which reduces the diameter of bronchi and hence leads difficulty in breathing. If proper treatment is not given or if an individual is not quitting smoking then he may suffer from Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Bronchitis (AECB).
4. Lung Cancer is another common lung disease caused by smoking. Cancer is a disease where cancerous cells grow out of control, taking over normal cells and organs in the body. Smokers have more chances of getting lung cancer as the smoke contains more of carcinogenic compounds which enhance the growth of cancerous cell.
5. As we know that Asthmatic patient already fight against the breathing problem and in such condition s if an individual smokes than it is very dangerous to their health. If an individual continuous to smoke then he may suffer from bronchitis and that will add one more complication to asthmatic patient.
The list of lung diseases can go on but above we have seen some of the major diseases. So now I think you must have got the answer of “what diseases are caused by smoking”.
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filed in Effects Of Smoking on Apr.16, 2009
In India the peoples here and there smoke without taking any concern of other people working surrounding them. As we know that cigarette smoke contains many hazardous compounds which is harmful to the person who is smoking as well as who is unknowingly inhaling the smoke which is called as passive smoking or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) or secondhand smoke (SHS).
The common places where they smoke may be public venues, gardens, theatres, malls, restaurants, bars and many such public places. The effect of smoking affects the person who has not even taken a single puff in his life.
• The smoke which comes out contains carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, formaldehyde, and other toxic gases. Let’s take a look on the diseases or complications or common effect of public smoking.
• The non smoker when he comes in contact with the cigarette smoke he can lead to headache, cough, nausea, dizziness, irritation of the eye and sore throat.
• The asthmatic patients experience a significant worsening in lung function when exposed to smoke from the other people smoking.
• The other most risky and frequent effect of public smoking is the gradual diminishing of the blood flow through the heart.
• The passive smokers have twenty five percent of enhanced probability of heart disease and lung cancer.
• There is also firm proof that indicates that passive smoking may impact the mental growth of children.
• 55 to 60% people are more prone to coronary heart diseases that are exposed to passive smoking in the public places as well as in their work places.
• The public smoking may cause breast cancer to women’s.
• The smoking in residential areas may affect to the health oh children’s. As the immune system of children’s are very weak they are more prone to the infections or diseases related to respiratory tract.
To reduce all the effects of public smoking, the individual should become conscious that smoking in public places where others are present can be a source of inconvenience. Hence it is crucial that they should avoid smoking in places where others are present.
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filed in Effects Of Smoking on Apr.15, 2009
Smoking affects the body but knowingly or unknowingly it is also fading the financial condition. Tobacco companies and government are the only ones that do well to the sale of tobacco. Government and company are receiving good wealth in the form of taxes. Smokers are naive of the amount they spend on lighting every cigarette.
If a smoker is lighting 20 cigarettes per day means per year he must smoking nearly 7,000 cigarettes. Let’s take he is choosing the cheapest brand available than also he is investing more than $2,000 yearly. Therefore, there is not only a risk for various illnesses, but also a toll on the pockets of smokers. So this habit of smoking eats up the person financially.
The effect of smoking is not just the financial toll but it also consumes time. The smokers are more prone to all the disease as his immune system becomes weak. Ultimately he has to go for sick leaves in the company and there will be loss of productivity.
The smokers are more prone to all the major diseases such as heart attack, renal impairment, cataract, atherosclerosis, cancer etc. the money required for the treatment of all this diseases are very high and eventually it brings down the financial condition of the person.
Rather than wasting money in the treatment on can utilize this money in some good things may be by bringing some good books. Per week a person can save money near about $12. The financial condition will also be maintained and there will not be any shortage of money every house will be happy.
A smoker thinks that one cigarette cost so less but if we count it weekly, monthly and then yearly one can see how much saving a person can do if he once quit the smoking.
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filed in Effects Of Smoking on Apr.15, 2009
“Smoking is Injurious to health” is written on each packet by knowing the fact even literate people avoid reading it and continues to smoke. Smoking leads to as many as possible diseases. There are many complications and side effects of cigarette smoking.
• The smokers may suffer from “Smokers Cough”; where due to continuous exposure of cilia to the fumes causes this problem. The cilia gets inactivated so mucosa lining continuously secrets mucus to avoid the foreign particles entry into the respiratory system. Hence, continuous formation of sputum takes place which is actually a defense mechanism.
• The bones may get thinned and weakened up due to smoking. The women are more prone to osteoporosis because smoking decreases the calcium level.
• The other side effect of smoking cigarette is infertility problem.The fumes contains carbon monoxide and nicotine which may cause fetal oxygen deprivation, placental abnormalities, and still birth.
• By smoking there are side effects on skin. The wrinkle formation, dark circles surrounding the eyes, blackening of the lips, ageing etc is the effects of cigarette smoking. The Vitamin C which is very much essential for the preservation of collagen deprives which leads to all of the above problems of skin.
• Headache and dizziness will go hand in hand for the smokers as the release of dopamine is in increased amount. The dopamine receptors get activated which results in headache and dizziness.
• The smokers cannot enjoy the food as the non smokers can because of the repeated smoking the taste buds get inactivated. Even they smell whole day very bad that they cannot realize.
• Dry Mouth which is also called as xerostomia. Due to smoking the salivary gland are affected where the saliva production decreases and person demands for more sips of water.
• Breathlessness increases due to elevated consumption of fumes containing carbon monoxide. Usually the oxygen binds to hemoglobin but in smokers carbon monoxide bind to hemoglobin which supplies insufficient amount of oxygen to the cells. As the cells are lacking oxygen they cannot go for physical activities and become more and more lethargic.
• The effect of smoking cigarette smoking can also be seen on the fingers. The finger by which they hold cigarette gets yellow and pale. If you smoke roll ups this problem will be even worse. No amount of scrubbing will get rid of it; the only solution is to stop using the same finger.
If the person does not stop smoking in these initial stages then he has to fight against the most dangerous diseases.
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