Articles » Smoking Effects
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Heavy, long-term cigarette smoking is often said to cause cancer, most prominently lung cancer and cancer of the larynx. And, the evidence is very strong, amounting to near certainty. But, interestingly enough, exactly how it does so is not fully known. It remains an active area of research.
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Stopping smoking often brings on cravings for that foregone cigarette. There's no one magic method for dealing with withdrawal cravings that works for every individual. Each person employs a different stop-smoking method and each one will react differently as nicotine levels are reduced. But there are a handful of techniques that have proved effective for a wide group.
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Turning To Family & Friends After Having A Smoking Relapse
Just as athletes rely on their team members and encourage each other, don't forget that you have a team, too. Now that the going's gotten rough with your decision to quit smoking, it's time to call on your team - the family and friends who will cooperate and encourage you in your "big game."
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Safeguarding Against Temptations To Smoke
In order to stay on your course of becoming a nonsmoker, you'll have to keep vigilant and guard against the temptations that could cause you to slip up. If only temptations would go away, now that you've stopped smoking! Unfortunately, they don't. Not for a while. In the first few months, when you see or taste a cup of coffee or make a telephone call, you may be just as likely to get an urge for a cigarette as you did when you were a smoker.
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How Smoking Directly Destroys Vitamin A & C In Your Body
When it comes to the dangers of smoking and applying the will to quit, you can't leave out a discussion of vitamin and mineral supplements. Vitamins are essential to life, and they can make or break a person's health. Unfortunately, a cigarette is not a vitamin's best friend.
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How Smoking Affects Your Emotions
Nicotine is one of the fastest-acting drugs known to man. When a smoker inhales tobacco smoke, the nicotine is absorbed into the bloodstream and the effects are felt almost immediately. Conversely, levels of nicotine drop quickly to about one-quarter within one hour after finishing a cigarette, hence most smokers will think they need a cigarette every hour (on average).
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Have You Ever Wondered Why You Gain Weight After Quitting Smoking?
Unfortunately, cigarette smoking really is an aid to weight management. Here is how it works and why it is so effective: Nicotine can reduce your desire to eat by directly affecting the activity of serotonin and dopamine, which are substances that control neural transmission in areas of your brain that turn your appetite on and off.
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Passive Smoking: Long Term Effects
Passive smoking may not directly cause certain diseases related to smoking, but it gives you a chance of developing anything smoking-related, at a higher rate. Studies have shown and confirmed an increased risk in the following...
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Health effects of smoking are usually targeted at the lung area and throat area where much of the action takes place. Smoking is one of the habits which can actually be deadly over time, with a slow burning quality that can cause irreversible and harmful effects to the body. While there are more and more people who are enamored with the habit of smoking, the adverse health effects of smoking are actually able to catch up to its smokers in the long run.
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Cigarette Smoking and the Effects on Children
Today, children are at great health risk and danger from cigarette and tobacco smoke aside from the young teenagers and adults who are active as well as passive smokers. Children belong to a high risk group as they get exposed to passive smoke, environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) or better known as the second hand smoke. Cigarette smoking effect on children is very dangerous because at a very young age, they are still in the developing age and also their breathing rate is faster than the adults.
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The Effects Of Smoking And Alcohol On Your Skin
Although smoking is best known for causing lung cancer, this habit is also among the biggest threats to your skin. Next to sun and chemicals, tobacco is one of the major accelerators of your skin natural aging process, and it is thought to be one of the fastest acting threats. Young people start showing signs of early skin aging after as little as 10 years of smoking. If you think this is a long period of time, you should keep in mind that many young people start smoking in their teen years (16-19 year olds) and are still below 30 when the first signs appear.
