Cigarette Effects Health Feed

Smoking can cause irreparable damage to your mind and body. Chemicals in the tobacco travel to all parts of the body, leaving no area unaffected. According to available data, smoking causes 30% of all cancer deaths and about 80% deaths from emphysema and bronchitis. In addition to adversely affecting yourself, smoking also has a severe impact on your near and dear ones. According to WHO, about 600,000 people die every year from passive smoking. Out of the deaths that occur due to this, 1/3rd is ...more

Tobacco smoking: - smokers have 20 fold increase of lung cancer compared to non smokers
- tobacco smoke contain thousands of chemicals which include >70 chemicals are proven carcinogens
- quitting smoking is beneficial. Former smokers are at 9 fold increased risk while current smokers are at 20 fold increased risk of lung cancer compared to non smokers.
- environmental tobacco smoke exposure to non smokers through passive smoking from smokers also increase the risk.

Dear Lybrate-user, it is good that you wants to stop smoking, we are destroying our health by smoking normal human takes oxygen into lungs 12 -15 times per minute (12 - 15 breaths) Lungs mixes oxygen in our blood and it purifies our blood, by smoking we are mixing not only oxygen adding and mixing bad elements like Nicotine etc. In Oxygen, that spoils our blood and our body organs like Lungs, Heart, kidney etc…
How to quit: By willingness and willpower" where there is a will there is a way" ...more

STOP SMOKING
Best age to stop smoking is before 40, In fact do not start all
Only by using strong will power and avoiding all situations where you feel like smoking, chewing tobacco or drinking or using drugs avoiding friends who smoke and diverting mind by reading or chewing a gum, like NICORETTE and taking a walk when you crave for a smoke can all help. You can chew Nicorette gum which is nicotine replacement. There are medicines available. Which can be prescribed if asked personally C...more

Tobacco use is the greatest potentially remedial problem throughout the world, and it is the number one preventable cause of death in the developed world. There various methods to treat the craving and withdrawall symptoms. Kindly consult a psychiatrist. All the best.

hi lybrate user yes definitely it makes difference on pregnancy.
please start reducing frequency of cigarettes then stop completely as it affects growth of the baby.

Your lungs can be very badly affected by smoking.
Coughs, colds, wheezing and asthma are just the start.
Smoking can cause fatal diseases such as pneumonia, emphysema and lung cancer.
Smoking causes 84% of deaths from lung cancer and 83% of deaths from chronic obstructive lung disease, including bronchitis.
To leave that habit: sauna bath for 5 days which helps you to drain out nicotine from the sweat produced over skin. This will reduce your craving for smoking. Then revert me ...more

In combination they can trigger off cirrhosis of the liver. Each has a lot of dangerous effects if taken alone too and that list is too much to write here. The combination is really very harmful. I advise you particularly to give up smoking and drink in moderation, if you can do so. Otherwise give it up immediately.

Hi, lybrate-user,need more information about your smoking habit How many cigarette a day do you smoke? From how many years you are smoking need brief evaluation I suggest you consult your pulmonologist for cleaning your lungs. Damages your lungs from inside and without quit smoking you can't clean your lungs as you know it's effect on your lungs. If you think that you want to quit smoking so, I suggest you to take NICOTEX. NICOTEX is a chewing gum containing nicotine that helps smokers to quit s...more

Just read this information: Summary: (Source: Center for Disease Control and Prevention)

• Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. This is nearly one in five deaths.
• More than 10 times as many U.S. citizens have died prematurely from cigarette smoking than have died in all the wars fought by the United States during its history.
• Smoking causes about 90% (or 9 out of 10) of all lung cancer deaths in men and women.1,2 More women die fr...more