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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Effects of Smoking & Reasons to Quit - Part 1


Smoking 


The act of inhaling and exhaling the fumes of burning tobacco in cigars, cigarettes or pipes is called cigarette smoking. Originally it was started by Native Americans and was practiced in rituals and for medicinal purposes. But slowly it spread to other parts of the World and by the end of 19th century the use was widespread all over the earth. There are various methods of smoking. They are cigarette, cigar, pipe, hookah or sheesha.
Today the habit is so rampant that many Governments have come down heavily on tobacco manufacturers and sellers in the form of heavy taxation for tobacco and tobacco products.

Effects of Smoking

Tobacco smoke contains a substance called nicotine, a poisonous alkoid. It also has substances such as carbon monoxide, acrolien, ammonia, prussic acid, aldehydes and tar. Tobacco contains about 4000 chemicals which when heated produce a lot of substances that cause irreparable damages to the health.

Natural Stop Smoking Aid

Cigarette smoking is very dangerous to everyone's health because it harms almost all organs in the body which causes many diseases and reduced health of smokers in general. According to the Surgeon General, smoking cigarettes is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States resulting in about 400,000 deaths each year. If you smoke, it means you are giving yourself a slow poison treatment. Cigarette smoking does not only affect the smoker's health but also affects the nearby standing individual like your kids as their organs are in the developing stage. Most of the diseases caused due to smoking are so severe that there are no treatments available for these diseases. Now is the time to think of ways you can effectively quit smoking immediately.


To Be Continued....