Diet is another complementary therapy that can help stop the bad and harmful habit of smoking. Some treatments such as patches or gum act introduced certain levels of nicotine in the body to reduce the urge to smoke, this is what you get certain foods.

Recent studies show that foods such as vegetables, milk and fruit make nicotine leaves the body more slowly, so that the monkey is retarded by smoking and can reduce the consumption of cigarettes per day, which is a great start.

The further increase these foods in the diet is very beneficial for those who are likely to get fat while leaving the habit, and that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables is ideal for weight control. We also know that smokers, the harmful effect of smoking, need more vitamin C, thus the consumption of certain fruits (especially citrus) would help achieve the recommended doses of antioxidant vitamin.

We saw Viton long as milk and fruit flavor of snuff worsen, which are good strategies to take them at the end of the meal and the cigarette after not know so well, in addition to the above positive effects have explained.

Of course we always recommend professional assistance to quit smoking, it’s not as simple as eating more fruit and vegetables and by magic will smoke no longer simply a valid strategy and complementary to a complete cessation of snuff.

Needless to say that the snuff, in any form, is harmful to health. But it is valid to share more reasons to quit smoking, once and for all, a habit that all it does is to go mining, little by little, our health.

According to a recent study published in The Journal of Headache and Pain, smoking more than five cigarettes per day can increase your chances of getting migraines. The work was done on 361 medical students at the University of Salamanca to be consulted in person and who knew well what are these headaches.

16 percent of these students suffered from migraine, while 20 percent of the total smoke. Among migraineurs, 29 percent were smokers, as well as the frequency of attacks was also much higher.

According to Julio Pascual, one of the authors of the study, “Smoking is a precipitating factor for this type of headache, since the prevalence of active smokers is one third higher in people migraine and is a direct relationship between the number of cigarettes smoked and the frequency of migraine, “he said.

In this sense, the research team highlighted the role of the number of cigarettes based on the results, we may conclude from the five cigarettes a day are more likely to develop a migraine.

The pulmonologist emphasized that under any view, “you can recommend a person with migraine who smoke thinking it will improve your migraines.” This warning has been made by way of banishing a popular belief that claims that smoking can help reduce the headache for the “channel” anxiety.

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This weekend, stayed a few friends (all ex-partner of a company where we worked) for dinner.

It certainly did not go out much, now my life is more “monastic”, my priorities lie elsewhere, but I like that after dinner to get a drink in the bars, the bars do not stink to snuff, you could breathe, the atmosphere was not loaded, the clothes and hair, do not vex when I get home as I did before.

So … I’m happy for the new law banning smoking in public places, NOT A CHASE to “junkies” is a defense to attack they did the rest of the population.
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If you’re reading this article, I imagine you are on one side of the cigarette filter side, inhaling the smoke directly, and worrying, about the one on the other end, inhaling the smoke that you exhale or emanating from your cigarette. If instead, you’re the one who is aspiring to that other side without trying the smoke of a third party, and you’re a passive smoker, you will also find this reading, important facts to know and take into account to avoid future unpleasant surprises.

Passive smoking, because, as I’ve noticed, is a person who aspires snuff smoke emanating from another person who is smoking. The problem can be very serious, when the environment in which you find most of the day, is permeated with smoke. The amount of smoke, and therefore harmful substances that your body will be taken in, is proportional to the time you’re exposed to smoke.

For someone who is a regular smoker, the smoke does not represent any kind of inconvenience or discomfort, has been used so that it is part of their environment, and do not realize the trouble and danger that exposes others.

Different studies have shown that the risk of lung cancer in passive smokers is increased from 20 to 30%, and the risk of heart disease also increases by 25%.

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Numerous studies on snuff and periodontitis have shown that smoking can cause and aggravate conditions in the mouth.

The snuff can cause serious disruptions in the area of periodontal (gum, dental cement, periodontal ligament and alveolar bone).

Smoking disrupts the ecosystem mouth. When the microbiological balance is altered, increasing the number of harmful bacteria in the mouth. This alteration causes a series of ailments related to periodontics.

We can divide the losses into two categories of snuff: snuff smoke and toxic products.

Snuff smoke

Through direct exposure to smoke from tobacco, snuff and alters locally damaged oral health. The temperature of the smoke and all accompanying irritants that injure the lining of the mouth. Continue Reading

Why smoke?

Smoking is a habit, a habit becomes an addiction because it meets all the criteria that define the consumption of addictive substance.

* Tolerance
* Unit
* Withdrawal in the absence
* Compulsive Behavior

The form of dependence generated by smoking is:

* Physical dependence caused directly by nicotine and is responsible for the withdrawal.
* Psychological Dependence: Smoking becomes a company of all types of situations, after meals, with coffee, talking on the phone, etc. It becomes impossible to change that relationship and that co-dependency.
* Social Unit: Smoking remains a social act. Done in groups, in meetings, after meals, social activities and family and yet remains a habit begun in adolescence, giving it a social value of rebellion and sense of belonging, acceptance and recognition.

Why should I quit?

It is the first risk factor of the leading causes of death in the country. It is related to heart disease and vascular disease. Lung diseases like emphysema, bronchial asthma, lung cancer and others. Continue Reading