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“Nicotine Addiction”

Why do people become dependent on nicotine?

About a third of people who put a cigarette in his mouth and 90% of young people who continue smoking after the age of 19 become dependent on nicotine. This is due to the effects it produces in the human brain. See the details:

- After being swallowed cigarette, nicotine is absorbed through the lungs and into the bloodstream, reaching the brain in 7 to 20 seconds.

- In the brain, nicotine releases substances (dopamine, endorphins, etc.) that trigger the sensation of pleasure;

- Over time, the brain in response to repeated stimulation of nicotine, nicotinic receptors produces more and become subject to the fulfillment of the nicotine receptors to function properly, characterizing the physical dependence.

What is the withdrawal symptoms of smoking?

Withdrawal syndrome is a cluster of symptoms that arise when the smoker addicted to nicotine is temporarily (few hours) without using the cigarette.

These symptoms are:

*Anxiety

*Dizziness

*Headache

*Irritation

*Insomnia

*Doldrums

*Depression

*Dismay

*Difficulty concentration

*Increased appetite

*Urge to smoke

These symptoms usually are not allocated by the smoker, the absence of smoking. They reach maximum intensity after 2 to 3 days without smoking, reduce to 1 week and usually disappear after a month.

When smoking, the symptoms disappear and the individual has the false impression that smoking is a form of relaxation. In fact, the tobacco smoke to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms. This explains why, on waking, the individual has such a need to smoke the first cigarette, because during sleep there is a decrease in the levels of nicotine in the blood and if there is no replacement withdrawal symptoms emerge.

Withdrawal syndrome is one of the main reasons that hamper smoking cessation.

What are the diseases associated with cigarette use?

- Cancer: 30% of all cancers are related to smoking, the main ones are cancers of the lung (smoking is responsible for 85% of cases, the smoker has 20 times more likely to have lung cancer), mouth, larynx , pharynx, stomach, pancreas, kidney, bladder and cervix.

- Coronary heart disease: smoking accounts for 25% of heart attacks and angina. Smokers over 55 years has the risk of death by strokes tripled.

-- COPD85% of cases of emphysema and bronchitis are caused by smoking. The smoker has 10 times more likely to have COPD.

- Stroke (CVA): 25% attributed to smoking (the risk is 3 times higher than in non-smokers).

- Disorders of Circulation: poor circulation in the legs are more common in smokers.

- Impotence: more common among smokers, also for circulatory problems.

- Smokers have also more chances of developing stomach ulcers, respiratory infections, osteoporosis, inflammation gums, bad breath, wrinkles, cellulite and cataracts.

The cigar also is harmful to health?

The habit of cigar smoking is also related to the development of cancer (especially lung, mouth, pharynx, larynx and esophagus), coronary artery disease (heart attack and angina) and COPD. The chances increase proportionally with the number of cigars smoked per day and with the depth with which the individual brings the smoke. That is why many smokers are starting to stop smoking cigar in their own ways to kick that bad habit. 

The person who smokes two or three cigarettes a day are exempt from the harmful effects of tobacco?

Not even the guy who smokes little, less than 10 cigarettes per day, to greater chances of developing diseases related to smoking than nonsmokers. Therefore, there is a certain amount of cigarettes that can be smoked per day.

What is the risk for women who smoke and use birth control?

A woman who uses contraceptives and smoke have 10 times more likely to suffer myocardial infarction and thrombosis of the leg veins.

What are the risks to the health of the child when the mother smokes during pregnancy?

When the mother smokes during pregnancy, there is greater risk of miscarriage occurs, the greater incidence of bleeding and premature delivery. Moreover, infants born to smoking mothers are more likely to be born with low birth weight and to make sudden death. Studies indicate that cigarette use during pregnancy predisposes to the emergence of asthma children.

What is a passive smoker?

Is that non-smoker who is exposed to cigarette smoke from someone else. Major locations are exposed to passive smoking are the homes and work environments. A very common example of passive smoking are children whose parents smoke.

What are the health consequences of passive smoking?

Importantly, the smoke coming out of the lighted end of cigarette contains all the substances in the smoke inhaled by the smoker, but in higher concentrations (three times more nicotine and monoxide and 50 times more carcinogens). Of course passive smoking not inhale all the smoke, but it certainly will be subject to the hazardous effects of smoking.

Children exposed to cigarette smoke, especially parents, are more likely to develop respiratory infections (pneumonia, flu, bronchitis), asthma, Rhinitis, ear infections and sore throat. In children under 1 year of age, respiratory infections increased from 15% to 30% when there is a smoker at home to 40% when there are two smokers and can reach up to 50% if more than two smokers in the residence.

In addition, secondhand smoke can cause headache, dizziness, irritation of the eyes and nose.

What is the impact on smoking in an environment?

Smoking is harmful to the environment for several reasons:

A) Discharge home

- Smoking is considered the most polluting agent indoors.

- In closed environments where tobacco smoking, the level of airborne particles is usually much higher than the acceptable limit (60 mcg/cm3). At a party can reach 200 mcg/cm3; in bars and restaurants, 400 mcg/cm3, games room, 600 mcg/cm3.

- The level of monoxide can reach absurd limits (more than three times the maximum acceptable) when people smoke indoors.

B) Deforestation

- Forests are being cleared in order to clear land for planting tobacco and produce firewood to fuel the kilns that dry the tobacco leaves.

- It is estimated that for every 300 cigarettes in a tree is felled. In the year 1994 were produced 163 billion cigarettes, representing the destruction of 540 million trees.

C) Pesticides

- No tobacco farming are employed potent pesticides that contaminate the soil, the farmer and animals.

D) Fire

 - It is estimated that about 20% of fires around the world are caused by cigarette butts discarded inadvertently.

Smoking cigarettes "light" or low tar and nicotine is safer?

Cigarettes with low nicotine and tar are no less harmful to health than ordinary cigarettes. In fact, when a person starts to smoke light cigarettes, "to offset the lower concentrations of nicotine, he unwittingly bring more deeply and more often. As the tar and nicotine are not the only substances of the cigarette, the act of inhaling deeper causes other substances are inhaled in larger quantities by increasing the risk of disease.

The tobacco industry, with recent financial losses, has invested in the development of cigarettes supposedly safe. Lately it has been reported the emergence of cigarettes "Omni", which have low concentrations of carcinogens. However, there is no scientific evidence to confirm exempt such an assumption.

In conclusion we can say that any kind of cigarette is safe and every effort must be done to combat smoking.
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