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Quitting smoking in pregnancy: foolproof tricks

 foolproof tricks  	Stop fum  in pregnancy is possible. Here are some tips to quit cigarettes in pregnancy. If you are pregnant, you should leave the snuff, as it can be very harmful to the developing fetus.

Smoking is a major public health problems. Of the more than one billion smokers in the world, 20% are women, many of them pregnant snuff leave not even in your state. For this reason, WHO dedicated World No Snuff Day, celebrated today the May 31 “Gender and snuff, snuff promotion aimed at women.” The World No Snuff, real risks it should be noted that smoking, a leading cause of preventable death, leads to both smokers and those who breathe secondhand smoke. The use of snuff causes associated diseases such as fatal heart attacks, stroke cardiovascular, cancer, respiratory diseases, among others. Diseases that are becoming more common in women because the prevalence of snuff consumption among females is increasing and the age at onset. Protecting pregnant women and children from the harms of snuff.

Non-smokers have a right to breathe air not contaminated by smoke snuff and therefore does not undermine their health. Population groups particularly susceptible to increased risk should be protected: in these groups are the children, the pregnant, young, people with respiratory diseases, indoor workers from smoking, etc.. Quitting smoking in the pregnancy is difficult but not impossible. If you are a smoker, you’re pregnant and have decided to quit smoking, here are some tips to make your pregnancy a healthy and develop healthy, away from snuff. Surely, if you decided to quit, find help of all kinds to make reaching your goal. You can guide you, for example towards homeopathy and Bach flower remedies, recourse to group therapy, seek support from the specialists, go to your doctor or trusted friends who have managed to quit. We also want to add our two cents, and we offer some simple tips to help you quit smoking easier:

• Each time you go to buy snuff, stick to buying only one packet.

• After smoking a cigarette, put the package in another room, so you have to get up if you want to smoke your other.

• Take your cigarette lighter or matches the bag, and let them always at home.

• Before lighting the cigarette, breathe three times. After each set, leaving the cigarette in the ashtray.

• Empty the ashtray after he finished his cigarette and do not let the hand.

• Turn off the cigarette after the first puff, then turn them on; Fumarole only halfway.

• At home, only smoke in a room, not your favorite place, but one you uncomfortable. Do not smoke in bed anymore, nor in the morning or at night.

• Seek support from family and friends. Try engaging in activities that do not allow smoking, like going to the movies or the theater, and spend more time with nonsmoking friends.

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The health of the smoker

Be happy, I left it, and if you have not made ​​a decision, you want to put this article to show that what is happening to your health, sure to have noticed already, but it’s good to know that must: smoking. The World Health Organization, published some years since become literature showing the harms of snuff for the smoker.

In this article, what is done is to collect those statements made ​​in this document, we also attached the link for the full document. Among the diseases that produces snuff are: 1. Hair loss snuff weakens the immune system and makes the body more vulnerable to diseases such as lupus erythematosus, which can cause hair loss as well as mouth ulcers and rashes on the face, scalp and hands. 2. Cataract is believed that snuff causes or exacerbates several eye conditions. The percentage of people with cataracts, a clouding of the lens that blocks light and can cause blindness, is 40% higher among smokers. The snuff causes cataracts in two ways:

direct irritation of the eyes
and release into the lungs of chemicals that reach the eye via the bloodstream.
Snuff consumption is also associated with macular degeneration related to age,
incurable eye disease caused by a deterioration in the central area of the retina called the macula. In this area focus images, allowing us to read, drive, recognize faces or colors and see details of objects.
3. Wrinkles The snuff causes premature skin aging due to wear resulting from the proteins that give it elasticity, as well as vitamin A depletion and reduced blood flow to tissue suffering. Smokers have a dry, rough and furrowed by wrinkles tiny, especially around the lips and eyes. Continue Reading

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Nicotine Replacement Therapy

What is it? is one of the treatments available to quit smoking. Usually used in conjunction with other therapeutic interventions. It consists of administering low doses of nicotine to the body after the person stopped smoking. What is does is prevent the rest of the pollutants that have the habit of smoking, and drugs modulating effects makes the abstinence period are less marked and more tolerable for former smokers.

How do I manage? There are many different commercial preparations gum, lozenges, inhalers, nasal sprays and skin patches.

Which to choose? For a suitable choice which we must consider the presentations we have available to choose from. Then you need to take into account the comfort, the desire and taste of the person. All are effective ee view of the drug.

How do you use each?
- Nicotine patches are placed each day, and recommends the application site rotation to avoid skin irritation.
- The gum (gum) must be chewed until there is a tangy taste, when it happens you can place the gum between the gum and cheek.
- The fast acting inhaler is, insert the cartridge into a plastic mouthpiece and inhaled nicotine.
- The nasal spray is extremely fast action, but may cause irritation of nose, eyes and throat.

Is nicotine replacement therapy has side effects? You can have them, like any other drug or drug. Among them are: headache, nausea and digestive problems and insomnio.No forget that this therapy has to be specified, supervised and accompanied by a health professional.

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Side effects of caffeine citrate

Doctors can prescribe caffeine citrate oral solution or as an injection for premature babies to help them breathe properly. The medication is only for short term use and is classified as a stimulant of the central nervous system. Drugs.com indicates that you should not use it for your baby for more than 12 weeks without consulting your doctor or obstetrician. This medicine may cause serious side effects in your child.

Eating Problems
Using caffeine citrate for your baby, can cause problems with your ability to eat properly. RxList reports that in a clinical trial, 8.7% of infants given caffeine citrate developed eating difficulties. In this trial, feeding intolerance, combined with the development of a rash was the most common side effect of caffeine citrate. Although these side effects classified as serious problems, consult your doctor for help. He may have advice or you may want to stop using drugs on his son. Continue Reading

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The detrimental effects of smoking

There are three foods that sustain human life: food, the air we breathe and the impressions that are most important. This we know the science and humanity. The air has a vital role as a purifier of the blood that irrigates the whole body. Unfortunately highly selfish vested interests and the consumer society, we managed and we impose customs, services, ideas, etc..

When man knows his own psychology and learn to manage it will become a king himself and the universe and understand the motto inscribed on the portico of the temple at Delphi: “Homo, gnoscete ipsum” which in Spanish means “Man Know know yourself and the universe and the Gods. ” One of the burdens that has done more harm to humanity, is the horrible vice of smoking. More than 20 years, every day we hear about the damage smoking causes in the human body: cancer, heart attack, emphysema, etc.. And although we always try to excuse vice fret not stop the havoc it causes. Now, there is concern that women also smoke, some more than men.

At any meeting there is always someone who “looks ugly” or makes a comment, disapproving of the mechanical gesture done to a smoker lighting a cigarette. To remove any vice, you must know the damage it causes and the techniques and methods for understanding the psychological level, and later removed.

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The Effects of Caffeine During Pregnancy

Caffeine is one of the most abused substances worldwide, even by women who are pregnant. Although many relate only to coffee, caffeine is also present in colas, some teas, tea or mate, chocolates, and some medications. Is shown that about 90% give pregnant women consume caffeine through food or a medicine. Many consume to combat drowsiness and fatigue so prevalent in early pregnancy.

According to experts, there are studies that suggest that high caffeine consumption during pregnancy can double risk increase of spontaneous abortion, premature delivery of intrauterine growth retardation in the fetus, low birth weight babies, caffeine is not recommended for women who are pregnant. Scholars who advocate non-consumption of caffeine during pregnancy, explained that a person’s body takes four to six hours to remove the effects of caffeine in your body. In the case of a pregnant woman, your body takes up to 18 hours to do the same, increasing alertness. That means that your body retains more caffeine than others. Caffeine also stimulates the release of acid in the stomach, causing stomach upset. In addition, there is evidence that caffeine can easily cross the placental barrier and influence the growth and development of fetal cells, may alter its oxygen and blood flow, and do with the baby being born with abnormalities.

The proper caffeine
The fact that a pregnant woman has taken one or two cups of coffee a day, does not mean that your baby will have problems. No need to carry everything so seriously. Caffeine in small amounts will not bring problems to pregnancy, nor to the developing baby. A pregnant woman can consume up to 300 mg of caffeine per day, corresponding to four cups of instant coffee or three of pure coffee or six cups of tea or eight cans of soda, or 400 grams of chocolate. However, if a woman consumes caffeine should discuss with your doctor to know your opinion. The caffeine acts as a stimulant to the central level. The first sign of poisoning is drowsiness. In higher consumption, there is irritability, stress, headaches, gastritis and cardiac abnormalities. But for that to happen would be the mother to consume too much caffeine.

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Smoking during pregnancy

Smoking during pregnancyDespite the concerted efforts of researchers and health professionals, maternal smoking during pregnancy remains a serious public health problem. Approximately 20% – 30% of pregnant women consume snuff during pregnancy. Many of these women quit smoking during pregnancy and another proportion reduce their consumption of snuff.

Smoking during pregnancy causes serious risks to the woman and the fetus. Cigarette smoking by adolescents and pregnant women has been shown to increase the risk of complications in pregnancy and can cause serious fetal adverse outcomes, including low birth weight, stillbirths, spontaneous abortions, decreased fetal growth, preterm delivery, placental syndrome and sudden infant death. Other effects related to reproduction smoking include lower estrogen levels leading to early menopause and leads to infertility. Quitting smoking during pregnancy has considerable positive health impact for both women to fetuses, and reduces health problems for children born to mothers who smoke. Issues smoking before and after delivery: How are they affected the unborn? is known that smoking has an effect on unborn babies. Nicotine, carbon monoxide and other chemicals in the smoke of snuff are transmitted to the baby through the placenta . Nicotine increases heart rate and respiratory movements of the baby.

It is known that some of the chemicals spread through the blood of the mother cause cancer. During pregnancy, smokers have an increased risk of miscarriages. During childbirth, are more susceptible to complications. The chances that a baby is dying at birth or shortly thereafter are increased if the mother smoked during pregnancy. The babies of women who smoked or were exposed to smoke outside snuff during pregnancy are, on average, smaller at Babies born to nonsmoking mothers.

Smoking mothers give birth to babies weighing about 150 grams less than those who did not smoke. Babies born weighing less than average are more prone to infections and other health problems. A clear relationship between the number of cigarettes smoked during pregnancy and a slowdown in the growth of the fetus. These babies are more prone to perinatal complications, disease and death. How are babies affected? breastfeeding Mothers who smoke may pass harmful chemicals from cigarettes to their babies through breast milk. But it is important to note that milk from a breast smoker is still better than formula, in relation to the developing baby. More than 18% of deaths from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Infant are due to maternal consumption of snuff.

Even years later, children of mothers who smoked during pregnancy tend to be slightly lower than the other children and have more difficulty with reading, math and related skills.

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Some benefits of quitting smoking

 quitting smokingNormally normally hear smokers quit smoking benefits related to health, as related to the physical improvement and how to avoid dying in the future (typically very distant).

In this article I’ll talk about some benefits that are not directly related to improving health. Other benefits of quitting smoking are also very interesting for the smoker to obtain.

Before discussing these benefits of quitting smoking, I can not talk to you about the most important benefit to a smoker should be the stop harming your body and stop take years off your life.

However, smokers do not perceive it that way so that benefit is irrelevant to the majority of smokers who are within the first 20 years of smoking continuously, it because in these first 20 years certainly has not been presented any health problems beyond having to clean the teeth by the color “yellow” that smoking causes.

Ok, then what are the benefits if they perceive these smokers who have not yet presented any health problems? These are benefits that have to do with the social, are benefits that improve human relations and bring benefits to the new ex-smoker. Continue Reading

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How to stop smoking without gaining weight

One concern for smokers is to get to quit smoking without gaining weight , even in these days widely believed that quitting smoking without gaining weight is not possible, to stop smoking must be prepared to gain a few pounds of weight.

I do not think so and I’ll explain why is that fat to quit and how you can avoid it.
Read on, this head will fly you how easy it is to quit smoking without gaining weight.

First, see what is causing it to want to fatten them quit smoking, pay close attention here, because this is very important: the feeling of wanting to smoke is almost 100% same to a feeling of hunger, for that reason when you smoke have no problem because the feeling of lack of nicotine in your body perfectly and identify what you do is ingest nicotine in a cigarette. Ok?

The problem comes when you are no longer allowed to smoke, when you reach the urge for smoking (no nicotine in your body) you do is that “substitutes” for food and start eating out of your set hours, eat food ” junk “or unhealthy, and this causes you to gain a few kilos to quit smoking .

The worst thing is that the food never really replaced the desire to smoke and that desire still appears, first, because you still physically and mentally after because you think you are making a sacrifice to stop smoking and never exceed 100% your desire smoke a cigarette for. Then after a while I not only have a problem (smoking) if they now also have the problem that you do not like your body because you’ve gained weight. Then the result is the following when you think about this: “suffer because they can not smoke, you crave a lot and you went beyond weight, your decision is best smoke again because nothing good is bringing me to quit”.

Wow, that’s fine go thought the drug nicotine is so well designed that even when the try to leave you convince yourself that does not suit you because the effects are not “as good” as you thought.

Well, the good part of it, I’ll share how you can prepare your body to quit and without gaining weight. Just remember that it takes effort to do so, if you think you will sit on your couch watching TV, you’re wrong, and if you’re willing to give you more than that, better close this page and search for another alternative because I do not know anyone who has made that way (and believe me I know many people who have achieved).

Well, (for those who continued reading), here you share how you 2 tools to quit smoking without gaining weight .

1. Program “snacks” healthy.

You know that when you quit you’re likely to eat, you can not avoid, what you need to set healthy snacks not unbalance your food intake. I recommend you to your healthy snacks are based on fruits, because fruits besides functioning as inhibitors of desire to smoke. For example, after eating an apple is not gonna want to smoke, because the apple is sweet, moist, and requires a physical effort to eat (chewing and biting), to finish at least you will want to be a cigarette.

2. Includes a relaxation method

There are several methods in the market to relax, pick one and add it to your life, it is very important that you control your desires and urges to smoke when you are presented. For example, I used one of deep breaths, when he felt a desire to smoke stopped what he was doing and was 6 deep breaths and I relaxed and made me think of “what’s I want to stop smoking” and helped me pass the desire to smoke.

Use relaxation techniques to not only control your urge to smoke, but it will improve other aspects of your life is also very important, try it.

3. Exercise
Implement a daily exercise routine, you can start as follows: week 1; walk 10 minutes Week 2, walk 15 minutes Week 3; walk 20 minutes Week 4, walking or jogging 30 minutes (light) 12 minutes. This will help to oxygenate your body and inhibit the desire for a cigarette, making your body is better prepared to not “over eat” to be quitting.

These are some of the most important to stop smoking without gaining weight, try it by following these tips, you’ll see constant results, if you have any doubts leave me a comment and I’ll answer it.

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Quitting smoking: 1 myth, one fact

Today will be a short article, but very important, I think that what I share here will be one of the best kept secrets by the tobacco companies for smokers to keep captive consumption and thus failing to quit smoking, and therefore continue to sell billions of cigarettes a day in the world.

Here, put this very helpful in the marketing of cigarettes based on macho types, surrounded by beautiful women and attractive personality types dominant, are quite confident and good looking. That’s how we sell cigarettes, and subconsciously tell us that we can achieve if we smoke. Of course this is a lie. 1st myth.

Something else they do is, for example when you’re watching a movie and someone smoking out, always out doing so in a very particular situation, for example: not if you remember a movie called Goodfellas (Goodfellas), there is a scene where he goes Robert De Niro and is in a bar smoking a cigarette just before deciding to “disappear” someone, the scene appears as if it be smoking will help clear your mind to make the decision, the scene shows like De Niro in each puff gradually subsiding his nerve to make the best decision. Of course a lie. The 2nd myth. Continue Reading

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