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Last Updated: 7 years ago• Featured Tip
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MBBS, MD - Psychiatry

Psychiatrist•Delhi
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When you smoke, you not only harm yourself, but also the people around you. Your lungs aren t the only organs affected by tobacco; smoking has lasting effects on the mouth, nasal cavity, stomach, pancreas, kidney, liver, rectum etc. Smoking affects you physical and mental health, and can easily become an addiction.

Smoking increases a person s risk of suffering from many types of cancer including oral cancer, stomach cancer, lung cancer etc, as well as the chance of having a stroke or ...more
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BASM, MD, MS (Counseling & Psychotherapy...read more

Psychologist•Palakkad
Dear user. I can understand. Tobacco is addictive. Cigarette also contains 4000+ carcinogenic chemicals other than nicotine. Smoking can affect your mouth, throat, lungs, heart, stomach and brain in many ways. Cancer is one among the potential diseases smoking can cause. The best method is to leave it and continue with your will power. There are other methods like Nicotine Replacement therapy and pharmacotherapy combined. Nicotine chewing gums too help as an alternative for cigarettes. But still...more
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BASM, MD, MS (Counseling & Psychotherapy...read more

Psychologist•Palakkad
Dear Lybrate user. Smoking is always dangerous for health whether it is one or two it makes no differences. Quit smoking. Take care.
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Last Updated: 9 years ago• Featured Tip
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FRHS, Ph.D Paed Neuro Rehabilitation, MP...read more

Physiotherapist•Chennai
Ill effects of passive smoking

Passive or second hand smoking is breathing someone else's cigarette smoke which contains more than 4000 chemicals and toxins. Heart disease caused by second hand smoke kills approximately 46000 non-smokers every year. Long term exposure may lead to negative effects on the blood and blood vessels.
Last Updated: 9 years ago• Featured Tip
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M.Phil clinical Psychology, MS Psychothe...read more

Psychologist•Delhi
A good percentage of people who smoke want to quit the habit, few who understand the physical and psychological damage it can do to them and many because they feel that the they are losing control over the habit and its going well beyond the levels at which they want to maintain it and some because it eats into their pocket. They even express the wish to quit which only follows their version of inability to do so and a feeling helplessness. A considerable number of people make plans to quit and ...more
Last Updated: 5 years ago• Featured Tip
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BDS , MCP

Dentist•Bangalore
Smoking or consuming smokeless tobacco is very harmful to your teeth. It can lead to various oral diseases like oral cancer, gingivitis, periodontitis and tooth decay.
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Last Updated: 7 years ago• Featured Tip
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Graduate in Ayurvedic Medicine and Surge...read more

Sexologist•Delhi
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Effects of Smoking on Sexual Health

Smoking, in general, has a negative effect on the human body. It can cause a host of disorders such as mouth cancer, blood pressure problems, and lung cancer. Smoking affects the sexual performance of both men and women.

Here are some effects that smoking has on sex :-

1. Impotence: Smoking can damage the blood vessels that lead to erectile dysfunction (a condition where the penis cannot sustain an erection).

2. Decrease in ...more
Last Updated: 6 years ago • Featured Quiz
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Fellowship In Minimal Access Surgery, M....read more

Pulmonologist•Hyderabad
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Passive smoking reduces the level of antioxidant vitamins in blood. True or False? Take this quiz to find out.
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MBBS, PG-Diploma In Clinical Pathology

Sexologist•Sri Ganganagar
Yes, it will effect you more than your friend ,in this case you become you passive smoker which is more dangerous than smoking.
Asked for male, 25 years old from Bangalore
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MBBS

General Physician•Mumbai
Nature would help you automatically if you win over this toxic habit of smoking , you simply have to choose when to stop smoking with determination,
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