Minggu, 04 Juli 2010

DANGERS OF SMOKING


Cigarette History And Gynecology


People in the world for the first time that smoking is a Native American tribe, for purposes such as ritual worship gods or spirits. In the 16th century, when Europeans discovered the American continent, a part of it join the European explorers ventured smoke cigarettes and then brought tobacco to Europe. Then the habit of smoking began appearing in European royalty. But unlike the Indians who smoked for ritual purposes, in Europe people smoking just for the pleasure solely.
17th century Spanish traders went to Turkey and then started smoking habits into Islamic states.
Cigarettes contain approximately 4000 elements, including arsenic, acetone, butane, carbon monoxide, and cyanide, and at least 200 of them declared a health hazard. Cigarette smoke inhaled by smokers and passive smokers contains 43 substances which are known to cause cancer. The new cigarette smoke in the ashtray to die three times as much material containing cancer triggers in the air and 50 times contain eyes and breathing. The shorter the higher the toxicity of cigarettes are ready to float into the air.

The main toxins in cigarettes are nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide.


1.Nicotine, is the addictive substance that affects the nerves and blood circulation. This substance is carcinogenic, and can trigger lung cancer is deadly.
Nicotine is highly addictive substances, even five to 10 times more powerful psychoactive effects in humans than cocaine and morphine which is clearly prohibited its circulation.
Discontinuing the use of nicotine on may produce many unpleasant symptoms, including nicotine craving, irritability, anxiety, poor concentration, lethargy, not excited, restlessness, headache, drowsiness, and stomach upsets.
Nicotine can cause the opposite effect, depending on dose. At low doses, nicotine stimulates the mind and increase heart rate and blood pressure. At the higher the doses, nicotine will soothe and reduce heart rate. Smokers often unwittingly adjust how loud and how often they smoked, to have low or high doses.
Nicotine stimulates the brain receptors to release a similar chemical called dopamine. Substance is what gives the sensation of pleasure and calm. However, this nicotine effect lasted only briefly. Therefore, there is the urge to smoke again.

2.Tar
is a hydrocarbon substance which is sticky and stuck to the lungs.

3.Carbon monoxide
is a substance that binds hemoglobin in the blood, making blood is not able to bind oxygen.

Smoking Dangers

Lung Cancer
Tobacco smoke contains many cancer-causing chemicals. Inhaled smoke contains many chemicals that can damage the lungs. These substances can trigger the occurrence of cancer, especially in the lungs. Lung cancer is the most common cancer caused by smoking. The spread of lung cancer occurs in the body quietly until a higher stage. In many cases, lung cancer kills quickly.
substances (triggers cancer) contained in cigarettes are:
  • Vinyl Chloride
  • Venzo (a) Pyrenes
  • Nitroso-Nor-Nicotine
The only thing more dangerous substances than cigarette smoke in lung cancer triggers are radioactive substances. That is, if eaten or inhaled in sufficient concentration.
Death is generally not due to difficulty breathing caused by enlargement of cancer, but because the position of the lungs in the circulatory system makes easy to spread cancer throughout the body. The spread of metastases to the brain and other critical part is what caused the death.
90% of patients with lung cancer die within three years after diagnosis.
In addition to lung cancer, smoking can also trigger mouth cancer, colon cancer, kidney cancer, cervical cancer, blood cancer, throat cancer, pancreatic cancer and bladder cancer.

Heart Disease and Stroke
Nicotine contained in a cigarette could make heart beating faster and increase the body's need for oxygen . Cigarette smoke also contains carbon monoxide poisoning. This toxic substance walked to actually block the flow of blood and oxygen flow to the heart and other vital organs. Nicotine can narrow the blood vessels so more oxygen flow slows again.
Nicotine also will form a resistance to insulin, causing pre-diabetes condition, (when an increase in blood sugar levels but have not yet reached the stage of diabetes). Conditions that would increase the risk of Cardiovascular. That's why smokers have a risk of heart disease is very high. Tobacco is one of the main causes of heart attacks. A smoker's death from heart disease more than the deaths from lung cancer.

Emphysema

Heavy smokers who had smoked for years will have emphysema. Emphysema is a disease that will gradually make the lungs lose elasticity.
If the lungs lose, it will be difficult to remove the dirty air. The signs are beginning to experience difficulty breathing in the morning and evening. So easily out of breath. Other signs are often experiencing severe flu, accompanied by a heavy cough, and possibly with chronic bronchitis. Cough often does not stop and become chronic.

Atherosclerosis

Atherosclerosis is a problem in human blood circulation system caused by the accumulation of saturated fat or cholesterol in the blood vessels. Atherosclerosis occurs because of accumulation in the arteries, the fatty substances, abnormal smooth muscle, as well as piles of cholesterol. As a result of this accumulation, there was narrowing of blood vessels, and even a blockages can occur.
In addition to factors of heredity, high blood pressure and cholesterol intake, smoking also increases the risk of blood vessel blockage.

Impotence
Please note that smoking reduces the blood flow needed to achieve a state of erection. Because That matter, cigarettes can affect the ability of penile erection.

Harmful to Fetus
Pregnancy is a critical period for the fetus was conceived. Supply of nutrients the fetus receives only from the mother's body through the placenta. During the time of pregnancy, there is a critical period varying with different effects. Cigarette toxins absorbed by the mother (both as smokers and passive smokers) increases the risk of the fetus:
  • Low birth weight
  • Difficulty breathing at birth
  • Sick in the first days after birth
  • Died suddenly in the first days after birth
  • Born Premature
  • Low weight
  • Stunted growth
  • Complications during growth
Poor Blood Circulation
Function of red blood cells to carry oxygen around the body. In smokers, the oxygen molecules is replaced by components of cigarette smoke, thus inhibiting oxygen transport that are important to cell life.

Fragile Bones
Numerous studies have found an association between smoking and osteoporosis in men and women. The smokers have lower bone density than non-smokers. A case study observing hip fractures in elderly women, and concluded that one out of eight cases of bone fractures caused by bone loss caused by smoking.

Old Faster
Smoking can reduce the flow of oxygen and nutrients needed by the road skin cells constrict blood vessels around the face, so that will cause wrinkles.
Premature aging process has increased in accordance with the habits and the number of cigarettes smoked. Heavy smokers have wrinkles on the skin is almost five times higher than non-smokers.

Teeth become damaged and lasting
Particles from cigarette smoke can give a yellow to brown spots on teeth , and this will also trap odor-producing bacteria in the mouth . Not just the mouth, even the whole body will stink of smoke. So that will cause resentment on the other person or to the general public. Abnormalities of the gums and teeth are also more common in smokers.
sexual intercourse in high frequency compared with nonsmokers.

Healing Wounds
More old wounds heal in smokers compared with nonsmokers.

Depression
Some scientists consider cigarettes contain substances that can cause an increase in mood.
These substances are usually implies reduced when a person suffers from depression. That is also the reason why people under stress or depression tend to seek 'refuge' to cigarettes.

Bad role models
will be a bad role model for children. TS sure, no smokers who want their children to become smokers as well, unfortunately, children who are used to seeing her parents smoke are more susceptible to smoking. How to prohibit smoking if the parent-child his own smoker?

Impact For Passive Smokers
Various poisons contained in cigarettes can cause the same ill effects on passive smokers (people who do not smoke but smokers smoke inhalation). Child, family, close friends, and anyone who is exposed to smoke have health risks due to smoking.

Impact For Pets
Cigarette smoke can also cause pets exposed to the risk of cancer and respiratory problems.
Like humans, pets that include second-hand smoke will also be exposed to risks such as human.

Stupid impressed
If smokers defend their dependence, there is one truth that they could not deny: all also know that smoking is a killer, so, if there is still a continuing habit of it, it would look stupid.

Fire
If careless, when smoking and throwing cigarette butts are still burning to any place can cause a fire.

Environmental Pollution
In addition to nicotine, in cigarette smoke also contains monoxide gas. This poison is very dangerous when inhaled others. Quitting smoking means to reduce environmental pollution and care of future generations.

Poor Sperm Quality
Smokers are less well-producing sperm. In addition, smokers are also unable




Stop Smoking Tips


Tips when you want to quit smoking include:
  1. Plan a date as D-day stop smoking. Prior to that date, get rid of ashtrays, lighters, and things that can trigger back smoking. Only after arriving at that date, stop smoking altogether. Announce to anyone that will quit smoking on that date. The more you listen the better. Even more good if many who doubt the intentions
  2. Jump stops. Stop smoking by reducing the number of cigarettes or tobacco substitute with a lower level of nicotine less effective. To follow it the need for addictive substances, smokers tend to smoke more to suck harder, deeper, and longer.
  3. Nicotine smokers need to feel at work, so when low nicotine cigarettes they smoked, they smoked more powerful and more often to get the same dose. Unfortunately, when a lit cigarette in a more powerful, also suck more carbon monoxide. This forces the body to form more hemoglobin , which will make the blood more viscous, which increases the risk of stroke.
  4. Drink lots of water. This will help flush the nicotine and other chemicals from the body, plus it can help reduce addiction by fulfilling the "oral desires" that might have .
  5. Perform analysis on smoking habits that has been done so far.
  6. The results of this analysis will assist in braking the desire to smoke.
  7. Drinking orange juice. The most difficult part of the stop is when you have to cope with the reactions due to the loss of nicotine intake, and this can last for one or two weeks. But will be easier to overcome such reactions irritability, anxiety, confusion, difficulty concentrating, and difficulty sleeping due to cessation of nicotine intake that much faster if lot of orange juice to drink during that time. That's because orange juice makes the urine more acidic, so more quickly expel nicotine from the body. In addition orange flavor in the mouth can make feel that cigarettes are not bad.
  8. To balance the body's metabolism changes after not smoke, sports.
  9. Reduce sleep late at night to avoid smoking because of drowsiness, against the chill, and boredom emerges.
  10. Clean teeth and feel the sensation a new, more healthy for the mouth .
  11. Brushing your teeth will change the taste in the mouth and create the desire to smoke is reduced.
  12. Changing daily habits. Habits like smoking after eating, and drinking coffee try the change. Make a new habit. Like a walk after eating, and learn to enjoy coffee without a cigarette.
  13. Vigilant in the early days. The early days will be very heavy. Try to distract create hands and mouth stay busy for example by chewing sugar free gum.
  14. Resist the temptation to smoke, although only one suction alone. One suction would be easy to follow with a suction-suction, and efforts will be futile.
  15. Convince yourself that quitting smoking was not in vain. Think of a better quality of life if it is free from cigarette smoke and die quickly if you continue smoking.
  16. Ask for support from friends and family, or from associations which both want to quit smoking.
  17. While away from the bars and cafes. The biggest temptation to smoke again is when go to bars or cafes.
  18. As much as possible trying to avoid being among those who smoke or environmental non-smoking.
  19. When someone offers a cigarette is properly rejected. Feeling compassion on those who smoke. Do not listen to those who consider them lower than if no follow-up smoking. Because in their hearts and minds of their right mind wants to stop smoking.
  20. Use the money meant for buying cigarettes use it to buy myself a present to myself to appreciate the effort to quit smoking.
  21. After stopping, never smoke again, not even a single suction alone. Nicotine is so powerful that one suction alone will make the addiction again. There is no safe limit to be smoking again after quitting, do not even have for years been able to escape the smoke. One suction only, means have included nicotine, a substance toxic and highly addictive, into the body .
  22. Contact person who supports want to stop smoking when smoking.
  23. Create a list of all the reasons and benefits of quitting smoking.When felt like smoking, see the list of reasons to quit smoking who write.
  24. Lastly believe in yourself. Believe that can stop. Think about some of the most difficult things that have to do in life and to realize that having the courage and determination to quit smoking.

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Dr.Setiawan Dalimarta