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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The snuff on the health of young distinctive aspects that should be taken into account to see young people smoking. The World Health Organization in the pages devoted to the risk of snuff (in English), presents an article on the effect of snuff on the young. Then I will present a translation of it.

In young people, the consequences of smoking are:

• Short-term health effect of snuff consumption, including both respiratory and non respiratory effects, addiction to nicotine, and the risk associated with drug use other equally or more dangerous than snuff.
• Long-term effects of snuff on the health of young people increased by the fact that most young people who smoke regularly continue to smoke throughout adulthood. There is evidence that cigarette smokers have reduced lung function compared with people who have never smoked. In fact, smoking prevents normal lung development.

It is known that in adult cigarette smoking causes heart disease that can lead to heart attacks. Several studies have shown that they can find early signs of these diseases in young smokers.

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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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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.

We’ll show you the perfect plan to stop smoking.

At this moment there are thousands of people like you who are wondering how to stop smoking. Perhaps like you, do not know exactly how to stop smoking, they just want to quit smoking and expect to be able to get it. The first challenge is making the decision to quit smoking and now we will show you the essential steps you must take to achieve it.

Quality of life is important.
Right now you should not worry about surviving the smoking cessation and addiction that snuff has created in you. What should really worry about is the quality of life and as snuff has reduced as can leaving it to regain it.

Change the resignation of hope!
Well, surely the question that is lurking in his mind is how to stop smoking, “but maybe it feels weird with the idea of going without a cigarette in his mouth? Not sure of being able to do, and are afraid to try? Have you tried before and might not be able to get it?

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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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U.S. scientists discovered an enzyme that maintaining control allows you consume this drug does not feel the effects of “reward” it generates. It also helps prevent relapse

The study was published in the journal Nature Medicine. As he concluded, the inhibition of ALDH-2 enzyme, which the body produces naturally, would be effective for the treatment and rehabilitation of those addicted to cocaine.
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How to stop smoking with nicotine replacement therapy: patches and gum

How to quit smoking with nicotine patches or gum?

It’s a question I often receive some smokers.

This method, called the Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) is to accustom the body get lower and lower doses of nicotine without the other toxic substances.

Gum and nicotine patches are the most popular and TSN are available without prescription in pharmacies. Other products belonging to the family of the TSN are the nasal spray and oral inhaler are not available in Spain.

In the case of spray, which consists of an aqueous solution of nicotine, the smoker must aplicaselo nose. Fluid mucus and itching in the throat as the most common complaints caused by the spray. The use of this product should be provided by prescription.

The philosophy of all replacement therapy or nicotine replacement is that smokers smoke because your body craves nicotine.

Willpower is the key to this method

Without the use of willpower, the TSN are not very effective. The first days, when the urge to smoke is greater, smokers should use their will to face the desire to smoke. Continue Reading

COPD, what is and what treatment? – Public domain image from the book ‘Anatomy of Gray’ COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, belongs to a category three lung disease called chronic obstructive bronchopaties.

In this group are COPD, emphysema and chronic bronchitis. The cause of these three evils is smoke snuff. Asthma is another pulmonary disease that can be triggered from the smoke.

Snuff smoke deteriorates slowly and persistent mucous membranes of the respiratory tree. This disease is characterized by the presence of a poorly reversible chronic airway obstruction and oxygen flow.

Furthermore, the alveolar wall destruction makes the lung loses its elasticity. At this stage the assault of cigarette smoke to the lungs is devastating: the smoker begins to kill slowly and painfully. Continue Reading