Health Reasons To Stop Smoking
Author: Xzen Dor
Today there is a great push to get people to stop smoking not only because it will help them to live longer but also because of the huge cost that smokers have on the medical establishment.
Another reason for this pus is that over the past several yeas have shown that not only smokers, but non-smokers are also affected by the chemicals that are in the smoke when one burns tobacco.
To give you an idea of how bad smoking is to your health consider this:
The CDC estimates that some 440,000 people die each year from tobacco related smoking illnesses.
These illness include lung cancer, heart attacks, emphysema, stroke and high blood pressure. It is also know to cause fertility problems and of course we all know that when smoking the toxins in tobacco can be transfered to the developing baby just like alcohol can.
If these health reasons to stop smoking isn't enough consider that every time you light up you are putting into your system nicotine, tar, cadmium, ammonia, carbon monoxide, arsenic and many other poisons.
These toxins can have a long term negative impact on your health as many of them are not removed from the body with many of the stop smoking products that are available today.
This is because these products are basically a substitute for the cigarette which contains many addictive chemicals, nicotine being the primary one.
The products are designed to alleviate the cravings and the withdrawal symptoms you get when you try to stop smoking, on top of that they can also have side effects that can be extremely dangerous.
For instances some of the products have been know to cause erratic behavior, depression and even suicide so they are not something that one should consume without proper consultation.
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You can read more on how cigarette effect you and natural alternatives to get off of cigarettes and extending your lifespan at my Natural Remedies Website.
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Can you offer advice for smoking cessation?
I am quitting smoking today, and I have quit before. I had a decent prior attempt lasting 45 days, but I would like some more advice. I feel like my last attempt was just luck. Please do not quote the CDC, About.com, or any websites. Offer your personal opinions. I am not adverse to exercise, a lot of sleeping, and herbal/vitamin/tea/other healthy distractions during He** week. Thanks.
Go down to your health food store and purchase Passiflora incarnata tablets. This herb contains a substance called benzoflavone that can help alleviate nicotine cravings and can also ease anxiety associated with nicotine withdrawal.
Another herb that can help is Avena sativa (oat straw) extract.
Best wishes.
Where online is a federal, CDC, ect definition of smoking?
I work in a smoke free building. One of my co-workers thinks “smoke free” means customers can’t come in using any tobacco products. She even ask one customer to leave because he was using snuff or whatever it is called people hold in there mouth. Please post any federal links to the exact definition of smoking so I can prove her “the know it all” wrong. If it is not a government definition she will not believe it. Thank you.
That’s an interesting distinction. Taken literally, snuff is smokeLESS tobacco. The ban isn’t against tobacco, it is against SMOKING. I would guess snuff is allowed. It doesn’t hurt anyone else.
Sorry, I don’t have a citation. I know that Pres Clinton issued the executive order in 1997 banning smoking in executive agency buildings. I think OSHA has been trying to get some sort of rule in place as well.
What year did the cdc claim cigarette smoking does not cause lung cancer? Where can I find the quote?
There was an article published from The Journal of Theoretics Vol.1-4
Oct/Nov 1999 Editorial
(According to WHO/CDC Data)*
I’m not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for.
How do they know that smoking is bad for you? Where does the CDC get its info?
They keep on saying on the news that heart disease is the number one cause of death, and smoking is a major risk factor for any type of death. I decided to find out for myself why they say this, and I found out that the Centers for Disease Control say this; I went to their .gov website. The American Medical Association also says this. When you die, you get a death certificate, so that’s how they know the major causes of death. Then some how they calculate that smoking is a major risk factor for any type of death?
The reason I ask is because at work someone always smokes. So to show concern for her, empathy in an analytical way, I told her that smoking is a major non-genetic risk factor for death. She laughed and said that most statistics are made up. I told her that it’s government statistics and if it’s in a scientific peer-review journal, other scientists can review it to make sure it’s good. She laughed again and told me that statistics are made up. I explained that when you die, you get a death certificate, and that it’s statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the American Medical Association. She laughed again at me and said that statistics are made up.
Witchy, so you think death certificates are made up? If they then estimate after that how many heart diseases, lung cancers, etc, were influenced by smoking, I thought an estimate is the best explanation for the evidence?
From that perspective, aren’t plate tectonics and electrons just an estimate too? Before plate tectonics, there was continental drift theory. How do we not know in a thousand years from now another theory will replace plate tectonics? What we can say it’s the best explanation we have.
Umm.lets see…1 single cigarette contains abouty 3,000,000,000,000 free radicals. Free radicals are oxygen atoms that have lost one electron. These atoms will travel through your body destroying stuff, because if it loses an electron, the charge becomes positive. These molecules can do loads of bad stuff to ur body. 1st reason, its possible that these molecules can displace certain destroy cells because it attracts the atoms of cells because of its charge, causing the cells to collapse, then it might do loads of stuff u can imagine with what happens when a atom that is charged, in vast numbers, enter your body. Note; an oxygen that loses and electron also requires more atoms in order to be stable. So…ur gonna have trouble with ur body if u smoke. THats not the only reason. Smoking also has chemicals, which are bad for your body. Our bodies are designed, to take in natural substances only. So if we add chemical substances, then the body will have problems if the immune system can’t take care of the contaminants, or if the chemical substances disrupt your body. In a cigarette, there are wads of these substances…there are substacnes thtat they use in batteries, substances in paint, substances found in urine…(eww)…and other stuff..besides that..it also contains nicotine which gets u addicted…Main point is: Smoking destroys your body. Same reason as why drugs, MSG, and loads of other stuff destroy ur body. THe same reason as why u want clean air, clean water. So smoking is pretty much making the efforts of a lot of people in the world who try to reduce pollution useless, because you purposely take in pollution,…now doesnt that just sound stupid…? If ur a smoker and u say yea, i know but im addicted, then i dont blame u, because u realize the danger…but some people dont, and no offense, but seriously….if ur trying to act cool, or feel more manly, actuallly ask the person ur trying to be cool to, if they like it. If they do, then its ur choice. Just dont endanger other people..meaning..smoke in the smoking lounge…..so its pretty obvious why smoking is bad..but some people don’t really have a choice..if ur..umm…colleague says that..then give some hard evidence…
Please visit the sources, because it will give u a more clear reason…and..some of the things i mentioned is taken from a cd recorded from a doctor who was doing a presentation..so…Bye. =)
CDC Trying To Make Every Movie That Depicts A Character Smoking Automatically Receive A “R” Rating?
How do you feel about this?…… How far will the government go?
BQ: How long until they make it unacceptable to show overweight HAPPY people in movies
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