Smoking: 10 factors, everyone should know

Why in all civilized countries, people quit smoking .   and in Russia, more lights? Because our people do not know the whole truth about the dangers of tobacco use, experts say, while in the West for this powerful prevention programs work.

Even among doctors we smokes 70% in the United States - only 2%.

Smoking - leading preventable factor that affects the health of the population in developed countries. And more than that on public health in developing countries. The fight against smoking in developed countries encourages cigarette manufacturers to seek new markets.

Tobacco companies have invested nearly $ 2 billion in the development of the production of cigarettes in Russia - 5% of all foreign investment in the Russian economy after the collapse of the Soviet Union. These funds allow corporations to influence the short-sighted policy, but does not make the country richer.

If the Russians do not smoke, male life expectancy in Russia rose to 6 years and women - 3 years. This is without taking into account non-fatal consequences of smoking.

Tobacco companies do not want the number of smokers decreased, and therefore the bribe politicians and scientists, deceive the public and hide the truth about tobacco: a classic example is the trial that followed the exposure of research funded by tobacco companies in order to conceal the true extent of the harm of tobacco.

Tobacco kills smokers.

It is the only product that when used as directed, even in small doses, negatively affects health. Satisfy your craving for smoking, smokers die 10 years earlier. This decrease in life expectancy does not increase its quality, which is reduced even with little experience of smoking by reducing physical fitness, fatigue, poor health and other diseases.

Smoking reduces the potency. In addition to green phlegm, yellow skin, bad breath and bad teeth tobacco is the cause of many diseases and shortens life. Smoking caused at least 90% of the cases of lung cancer, 15-20% of other cancers, 75% of cases of chronic bronchitis and emphysema, 25% of deaths from cardiovascular disease.

Smoking harms and kills the people around the smoker.

Side stream smoke emitted by cigarettes is torque 4 times carcinogenic (cancerous) and harmful smoke drawn through low combustion temperatures. In this connection, passive smoking is almost a half less harmful than active. Passive smoking reduces life by an average of 5 years.

In Russia, many children live in smoke-filled apartments, many occupations (waiter, barman) associated with passive smoking daily. Smoking harms and kills children. Smoking before and especially during pregnancy, breastfeeding significantly harm the child's health and increases the risk of several diseases throughout his life.

The risk of neonatal death is increased in smokers is about 2 times, and even those who "sometimes indulge in cigarettes" - at least 10%. Smoking increases when children have the risk of nicotine dependence and later - smoking with all its consequences.

Smoking is highly addictive, comparable in strength to heroin.

According to a study conducted by one of the world's largest tobacco companies (Imperial Tobacco, 1989): "Within 6 months 43% of smokers have tried to quit smoking, but only 1, 8% did it. 72% of women quit smoking during pregnancy resume smoking after giving birth. Start smoking again after surgery 50% of patients with lung cancer and 40% of patients with cancer of the larynx. "

The majority of smokers want to quit smoking.

And in the long term if there is a supportive environment, and in some cases, qualified medical help to quit smoking, you can (not always the first time, and not always easy). In some countries where there are such favorable conditions, quit smoking for nearly 40% of smokers.

There is no safe tobacco.

The impact of "light", "mild" cigarettes and other health is no different from any other cigarette, it is only a subtle marketing ploy tobacco companies aimed at deceiving smokers. Compliance with quality standards (eg guests), presence of filters, treatment of tobacco does not influence its harmful as smoking man himself dispenses smoke, get plenty of harmful substances due to more frequent and deeper puffs.

Anyone who speaks of a safe and high-quality cigarettes in the context of health, or illiterate, or (and this happens more often) work on the tobacco companies. Cigarette manufacturers immoral and cynical misinform consumers.

Tobacco advertising and other marketing moves are not aimed at an attempt to divide the market to competitors, and to increase the size of the market at the expense of women and children (as the number of male smokers is already close to the maximum).

Halo adulthood and masculinity around smoking - a method to make our children smokers. Glamour, psevdoseksualnost, subtle elegance of menthol cigarettes - a way to increase the number of smokers.

How to quit smoking with ease

Sooner or later, almost every smoker comes to the conclusion that it's time to fasten with this business.

The reasons may be very different: on the persecution began, and even in winter have to run into the street to smoke; health

was to play tricks - bouts of morning cough suspiciously tightened; the appearance is poor - the skin fades, yellow fingers, from hair and mouth smells so that the most disgusting ... There are many options, and each has his own. Here are just a sensible idea to implement in practice, it turns out, not all and not immediately.

And while doctors in one voice say that the vast majority of smokers are able to quit for yourself that physical dependence on nicotine many times less than that of alcohol or drugs. This is the first difficulty.

Comment specialist

"Give up smoking? What could be simpler. I myself have done this dozens of times. "

Mark Twain

A second difficulty is that the methods and means that once and promise to get rid of tobacco dependence - oceans of drink, and orient it just can not even trained in matters Addiction people.

Choosing such that the eyes diverge, discord begins in the head and the hands are automatically taken out of another cigarette packs.

Let's try to sort out?

Three Sources and Three Component Parts

The entire mass of methods to get rid of tobacco dependence can be divided into three broad categories.

The first group of methods is based on the therapeutic suggestion in the broadest sense of the word.

The second group - associated with reflexology (acupuncture, electropuncture, moxibustion, acupressure, etc.).

The third group includes various drugs as nicotine replacement, as well as various others, enabling the body to more easily and quickly overcome the nicotine abstinence syndrome.

Most often experts create their own, original techniques, combined method of all three groups. And the masters of their craft "cocktail" is created for each individual patient.

The only thing converges most physicians - need to quit smoking immediately. After only 30 minutes after the last puff nicotine concentration in the blood decreases and if this moment endure, physical need for another "dose" will take only three days.

To each his own

However, if it were that simple, the smokers around us was negligible. So it's not so simple. Indeed, dependence on cigarettes is very, very individual. Let's try to figure out who and for what reasons smokes, and how to act to get rid of this habit.

Nervous

The man smokes to calm down, gather your thoughts, take himself in hand. Often smoke in bed at night. Most often, it is characterized by explosive or just intense emotions, most of them - negative. Choleric, melancholic and eerie mixture of both. This may be unusual, creative.

What to do? There definitely need a doctor and the same individual "cocktail" that needs to be carefully chosen to reconcile all the ingredients. It is possible that required drug correction - at least sedatives.

And, of course, have to give up alcohol because in our body cigarettes and alcohol are linked, so to speak, at the genetic level, and for this type of person a glass of wine or a shot of vodka can be the "trigger" that will start the usual and fully automatic program actions (Cigarette - Lighter - tightening). A person may not even notice at first that the smoke again.

Pragmatic

Cigarette for him - this is only a form of recreation. He gets pleasure from the process, often smokes cigars, cigarillos or a pipe, which firmly adheres to the image - remember Churchill or his countryman Sherlock Holmes. For the pragmatist important ritual component - say, afternoon coffee and a cigarette or cigar and cognac. Most often it is sanguine, strong-willed and determined, endowed with a certain power: businessman or politician.

What to do? The doctors here have nothing to do. For such people are often the only authority they are, the opinions of others, including doctors, for them is not critical. No hypnosis, no needles, no psychotherapy in this case, will not work, because people used to believe only in ourselves. And he will be able to quit only if he so decides. Encourage him to take such a step may, for example, a hobby with high physical activity (Mountain bike, climbing, rafting, etc.).

Dependent

The special pleasure of smoking it does not receive. For a dependent - it is a way of communication. He starts to smoke for the company, and at a very early age. At work, I never miss a smoke break, and not because they want to smoke, and because we need.

What to do? Independently of such a person will not give up cigarettes ever. It will take a very long course of psychotherapy and psychological rehabilitation (process can take a couple of years). Responds well to hypnosis, it responds to the "horror stories" about smoking, the ideal target audience for anti-smoking (social) advertising.