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Why to quit Smoking? Almost everyone dreams about having a healthy and disease-free life. However, not everyone is lucky enough to fulfill this dream. Today, there are number of factors that support the emergence of various diseases in our life. Smoking is surely one of the most common habits that help the innumerable disease to crea...
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How smoking is harmful? Smoke from cigarettes, cigars and pipes harms your body in many ways but essentially it affects the respiratory system. Everybody knows that smoking is injurious to health but very few people take serious concerns. It has been found that smoking is one of the major causes of cancers. Smoking is also responsible for millions of death caused by cardiovascular diseases. Smoking is especially harmf...
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People who smoke regularly need more Vitamin C than others because smoking apparently speeds up the metabolism of this vitamin. Also, elderly persons, pregnant women, alcohol abusers and chronic users of certain medications may benefit from supplements.
Says an aspiring model, "To stay in shape, there are some foods prohibited from my diet. Since I'm a vegetarian, things get really tough so I've been asked by my doctor to take some vitamin pills."
For whatever reason you take them, here is a piece of advice: If you have specific nutritiona...
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Tests have shown that women may, on average, find it harder to give up smoking than men. This is despite the fact that women are often more at risk to smoking related diseases than men. A woman's menstrual cycle can affect the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. Nicotine is an alkaloid. It is found in tobacco and coca, and in lower quantities in tomato, potato, eggplant (aubergine), and green pepper. Nicotine constitutes approximately 0.6 - 3.0% of dry weight of tobacco. Smoking can interrupt the menstrual cycle and may cause...
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Understanding second hand smoke Smoking alone opens the gate of a wide range of diseases. Some of the life threatening diseases that occur as a result of smoking are cancers, heart attacks, cardiovascular diseases and respiratory disorders. Studies have revealed that second hand smoking can be more harmful than smoking at the first place. Everyone says that they are aware of second hand smoking but very few seem to have an in-depth knowledge of second hand smoking. Let us try to find what exactly does it mean by second hand smoking, how it affects our body and what are the ways to...
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If you are a diabetic, you are aware that your body has an inability to control blood glucose and that you need to stay away from foods with high glycemic index (simple carbohydrates).
You also need to avoid smoking cigarettes and consuming tobacco as recent research has shown that these can double the damage caused to the body by making the arteries harden. Smoking poses many dangers to your health in itself, but for a diabetic, it dramatically i...
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Smokers and drug users, both recreational and addicts, are at a very high risk of heart attack even if they do not have any other risk factors such as high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, or high cholesterol and triglycerides. “Heavy smoking and drug abuse, especially cocaine, increase the risk of clot formation — thrombosis — in the blood. This may precipitate a heart attack even in those who do not have blocked or hardened arteries — atherosclerosis — which is the leading cause of heart attacks in peo...
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Most women I know suddenly turn camera-shy when holding a lit cigarette. I’m not talking about closet smokers but independent women who take tough decisions each day of their lives. Whether it is CEOs, academicians, housewives, college students, models or actresses, mention a photograph of them smoking and they coyly say no.
Think about it. Even before Ramadoss’ quixotic battle against smoking on celluloid, actors smoked unapologetically both, on and off screen. Some still do. Actresses who smoked on screen, however, spent hours explaining they were doing it because the role demanded it, even when the audience obviously didn’t care.
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When it comes to persuading smokers to quit smoking, health arguments don’t always work. What works better is the sheer convenience of being a non-smoker in a world increasingly refusing to inhale toxins exhaled by smokers.
Growing restrictions and the many diseases — 29 on the World Health Organization’s last count, including stroke, heart disease, various cancers and emphysema — associated with tobacco use are prompting many like Vikas Goel to stop. A frequent flyer, Goel, 34, decided to quit his decade-old habit because of...
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