The reasons why people smoke snuff, they are different, however, studies suggest their classification into six major categories of smokers. A first step to quitting smoking, to stop the snuff, is precisely to identify the reasons why people smoke. In that sense, the categories of smoking that we show, for sure let you identify with one of them and thus be a step closer to leaving the snuff. The reason why smoking is the characteristic of each of the categories below.

Smoking as a stimulant snuff:
In this category typically include people who feel that the snuff helps clear the mind, increase alertness, stimulates them to believe that increases your energy and allows them to continue their daily lives.

Snuff smoking gesture as a reinforcer:
For some people, coping with a situation with greater safety and soundness is given by manipulating some object between the fingers. It gives the impression that it have a greater presence or authority, or simply because they find it entertaining.

Snuff smoking for pleasure or relaxation:
This category incorporates those smokers who smoke to feel good, to feel pleasure or relaxation. Many people smoking is often incorporated into this category.

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Quitting smoking, your body is already benefited from the first half hour of your last cigarette. In a publication of the regional office for the Western Mediterranean World Health Organization, find a chronology of the benefits stop smoking and snuff the smoker’s body once it has decided to leave this as harmful habit.

These benefits result not only in the immediate improvement of the ex-smoker, but medium and long term can be seen that the benefits are precisely the reduction in risk for dangerous and deadly diseases like cancer. In others, the risks of certain disorders or coronary heart disease, resembling that of non-smoking population.

I invite you to read these lines and become aware of you should quit, and if you , you affirm that you made the right decision when you left the snuff. Do not ever smoke anymore.

• 20 minutes -> decreased blood pressure and heart rate
• 8 hours -> nicotine blood levels fall by 93%
• 12 hours -> blood levels of carbon monoxide are normalized

Blood oxygen levels increase to normal values

• 24 -> no longer decta nicotine in the bloodstream.
• 48 to 72 hours -> Nerve endings start to grow again

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Passive smoking is considered a person who is exposed to inhalation of smoke from smoking snuff by people who are in their environment.

Passive smokers are therefore from the person who is occasionally indoors where there are smokers, even those others who live day to day with smokers. Passive smoking, sharing ends, with the active smokers, ie smoking, not just the smoke from the burning of snuff, but also diseases that can be developed by the nicotine habit.

Richard Doll, conducted a study in 1985, which concluded inter alia that “an hour a day in a room with a smoker increases a hundred times the risk of lung cancer in relation to a non-smoker who spend 20 years of his life in a building containing asbestos (dangerous carcinogen). ”

Early studies gave evidence on the risks of passive smoking is lung cancer, were made in 1981 by Takeshi Hirayama, who study Japanese women who did not smoke, married to smokers. Remaining from this initial finding, demonstrated the link between lung cancer and inhalation of smoke by the smoke. To date, other findings have confirmed this fatal relationship.

Passive smoking, inhaling smoke two types, both that which comes from the direct combustion of snuff and that comes of it, as the smoke exhaled by a smoker.

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.

1% of people die annually in the world dies of snuff consumption without smoking a single cigarettein their life. Are the most innocent victims of the tobacco multinationals but also of attitude, objectively harmful, those smokers and those smoking (in men decreases consumption and increases in women) who smoke in public places or family in the presence of others ( often very vulnerable children.) These data vaguely knew and has been quantified in a study published in the medical journal

The Lancet (“Worldwide burden of disease from Exposure to second-hand smoke: a retrospective analysis of data from 192 countries” The Lancet, Early Online Publication , 26 November 2010) by the researcher Annette Prüss-Üstün, the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Fertility problems

Are you a woman who smoked and have trouble getting pregnant? Then you should seriously consider quitting. According to a Dutch report published by the British science journal “Human Fertility” the snuff has a ‘devastating’ fertility.

The study was conducted among 8,500 women from twenty to forty years in the Netherlands were subject to fertility treatment. Forty percent of them were addicted to snuff and had smoked at least one cigarette per day during the previous year.

The study indicates that a single cigarette a day reduces the chances of women becoming pregnant and increases instead of having the abortion.

The researchers concluded that snuff adds ten years to women of reproductive age, which means that a smoker of thirty years has the same problems that a non-smoking at forty.

The snuff also affects children

Studies of the British Medical Association show that snuff abuse during pregnancy may adversely affect the weight of the baby.

The effects of snuff thus affecting the health of the children of smoking parents.

During its first year of life, the children of parents who smoke at home are much more likely to be hospitalized for bronchitis and pneumonia than those of nonsmoking parents.

More than 17,000 children under five are hospitalized annually in British hospitals because of snuff smoke from their parents, according to British newspaper Daily Mail. “

Damage to blood vessels and airways

Tars damage and obstruct blood vessels. This can aggravate infections cause diseases of the mouth, throat, lungs and bladder.

Smoking is one of the most common causes of impotence. According to one study, smoking a pack of snuff per day increases by up to 60% risk of impotence.

The snuff also affects the airways. Nicotine prevents movement of respiratory cilia, the tiny hairs covering the inside of our lungs.

Thanks to its motion in waves carry unwanted particles along the surface of the mucosal lining. Thus, respiratory cilia are responsible for assisting in the task of filtering dust and other substances in the inhaled air.

When smoking, the cilia function and thus will Detorie smokers get more colds and respiratory infections easily. Snuff smoke can trigger an asthma attack.

Ulcers, eye damage and skin aging

Smokers are more susceptible to gastric and duodenal ulcers. Nicotine reduces the levels of vitamin C and so wounds heal more slowly.

Cigarette smoke, including tar, causing biological changes in the eye leading to vision loss in some smokers.

In addition, each puff of cigarette smoke contains about two billion of free radicals responsible for oxidation and premature aging of the skin. If you want a more youthful look the best you can do is quit smoking.

The effects of snuff are more than shown and are nothing positive. Each year there are four million deaths from diseases related to the consumption of snuff, according to estimates by the World Health Organization.

In Spain, the effects of snuff also take their toll. Every day about 150 people die from the effects of snuff according to a study of the Catalan Society of Pneumology (SOCAP) and the Spanish Association Against Cancer in Catalonia.

It is well known that snuff causes lung cancer, approximately 90% of cases of this disease relate to snuff.

What else happens in the body from smoking?

Here’s a summary of some of the most common effects of snuff:
* Less oxygen to the organs
* Blood vessels are damaged
* Paralyzes respiratory cilia
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Carbon monoxide (CO) is a poisonous, suffocating gas that you can not see or smell. This invisible gas produced from burning combustible materials such as gasoline, kerosene, coal, oil or wood. The exhaust from cars also emit this substance.

An oxygen thief

CO is an oxygen thief and is known as the “death” or “murderer silent” because it is a predator of blood oxygen.

The oxygen in the air you breathe goes into the lungs and then to all tissues. But when you inhale the smoke contaminated with carbon monoxide it occupies space and prevents oxygen transport hemoglobin oxygen to the cells. Continue Reading

Tar is the black sticky substance used to pave roads and streets.

Also found in the leaves of snuff and covers the lungs and alveoli of smokers.

The four components of cigarettes

There are four major components in cigarette smoke: tar (which is the most toxic), nicotine, carbon monoxide and irritants.

These toxins accumulate not only in the mouth, vocal cords, throat and lungs, but also in the kidneys, bladder, uterus and ovaries in women.

Effects on the body

Tar with irritants are responsible for lung cancer, chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Other effects are that prevents enough oxygen absorbing and paralyzes the cilia in the trachea and thus dust particles are not removed from the airways.

This sticky substance is also the cause of stains on teeth and skin of the fingers. Take a look at your fingers. If you look closely you’ll find these spots. If you can not see, on the fingers you use to hold the cigarette and smell.