Smoking Illnesses

There is no doubt that smoking causes other illnesses that ranges from the minor sickness to the most fatal illnesses such as lung cancer and cardiac arrest. But despite of this, smokers worldwide continue to grow worldwide and tobacco manufactures continue to get rich. Smoking related illnesses would non stop smokers from snorting in the deadly substance in cigarettes and tobacco manufacturers will not stop from producing these deadly substances. Are the following smoke related illnesses not fatal enough to make a smoker stop the habit?

The most predominant smoke related illness is heart disease. The harmful substances inhaled by smokers harden the arteries which speed up the blood clotting. Once the arteries ar clotted cardiovascular diseases called thrombosis which can either be coronary or cerebral. Coronary thrombosis leads to heart attack due to the clogging of the veins supplying blood to the heart. Cerebral thrombosis is caused by the clogging of the veins connected to the brain which can cause collapse, stroke or paralysis.

The second most predominant smoke related illness is cancer which does non only affect the lungs but the throat and mouth as well. Lung cancer is the deadliest smoke related illness of all and will most likely affect smokers than non-smokers. Statistics show that 90% of smokers develop lung cancer and 1 out of ten moderate smokers and 1 out of five heavy smokers will die of lung cancer. A scary thought so which should be enough to discourage smokers from continuing the habit. But apparently non enough. Aside from lung cancer, other smoke related illness causing cancer can also be developed due to smoking. This includes cancer of the bladder, cancer of the kidneys and cancer of the pancreas.

Another smoke related illnesses which is getting rearing among smokers is the continuing pulmonic diseases which is due the blocking of airflow and causes trouble in breathing. Two of the most common chronic pulmonic disease is emphysema and continuing bronchitis. Emphysema is a deadly smoking related illnesses which is due to the damage brought about by smoke to the air sacs. While bronchitis is a smoke related illnesses which is characterized by continuous coughing with mucus for several months. One thing to note about chronic pulmonary diseases is that they occur during the later ages of a smoker’s life.

Other smoking related diseases are non as rampant as cancer, heart or pneumonic disease but they are nonetheless fatal and enough reason to quit smoking. These smoke related illnesses are high blood pressure, fertility problems, asthma, and eye damages such as cataracts and lost of eyesight, dental problems, ulcers, and over all physical appearance.

Lastly, smokers are non the only people susceptible to smoke related illnesses. Second hand smoke or those people who ar open to the smoke breathe out by smokers are can also develop smoking related illnesses which can be as fatal with that of the actual smokers. Babies and young children with smoke parents are the most affected by second hand smoke.

Crisis in India: Smoking Expected to Kill 1 Million People Annually by 2010

Smoking kills 900,000 people every year in India, and unless corrective action is taken soon that number will increase to 1 million smoking-related deaths annually by 2010 and beyond, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine and conducted by scientists from India, Canada and the UK. For the study, 900 field workers gathered information from a sample of 1.1 million homes in all parts of India.
Highlights of the study include:
Smoking may soon account for 20 percent of all male deaths and 5 percent of all female deaths among Indians between the ages of 30 and 69.
About 61 percent of men who smoke can expect to die between the ages of 30 and 69, compared with only 41 percent of non-smoking men who are similar in other ways.
About 62 percent of women who smoke can expect to die between the ages of 30 and 69, compared to only 38 percent of non-smoking women.
On average, men who smoke bidi—the popular hand-rolled cigarettes that contain about one-quarter as much tobacco as a full-sized cigarette—shorten their lives by about six years. Men who smoke full-sized cigarettes lose about 10 years of life.
Bidi-smoking women shorten their lives by about eight years on average.
Smoking 1-7 bidis a day, for example, raised mortality risks by 25 percent while smoking an equal number of cigarettes daily doubled the risk of death to 50 percent.
The study did not examine the mortality risks of secondhand smoke, which the U.S. Surgeon General has declared a significant health hazard for non-smokers, especially children.
"It is truly remarkable that one single factor, namely smoking, which is entirely preventable, accounts for nearly one in 10 of all deaths in India,” said Harvard University Professor Amartya Sen. "The study brings out forcefully the need for immediate public action in this much-neglected field."
Half of Smoking Deaths Occur Among Illiterate Indians
There are approximately 120 million smokers in India, about 37 percent of all men and 5 percent of all women between the ages of 30 and 69. The government is taking several steps to control tobacco use, including making special efforts to inform people who are poor or illiterate about the dangers of smoking. According to the study, more than 50 percent of the tobacco-related deaths in India occur among illiterate men or women, and 80 percent of those people reside in rural India.
Indian health authorities have urged the government to do more, but some politicians oppose further action because they want to protect the jobs of tobacco workers.
Smoking Deaths On the Rise in Developing Nations Worldwide
The projected increase in smoking-related deaths in India is part of a global trend, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which estimates that smoking-related deaths worldwide will surpass 9 million annually by 2020—with 7 million of those deaths occurring in developing nations.
Twenty-five years ago, nearly 70 percent of the lung cancer deaths worldwide occurred in high-income nations. Today, 50 percent of lung cancer deaths occur in low-income nations, and by 2030 that number is expected to increase to 70 percent.
Tobacco Companies Targeting Developing Nations
One reason for the change is that consumer education, regulation and societal pressure havelowered smoking rates in many developed countries, which has also brought down the number of smoking-related deaths in those nations. Another reason for the shift is that tobacco companies have mounted aggressive marketing campaigns in developing countries, where there are few restrictions on how they sell or advertise their products, to help compensate for decreased smoking rates and lower profits in developed nations.
Currently, 1.3 billion people worldwide smoke or use other tobacco products, and nearly 5 million die as a result. Eighty-four percent of the world’s tobacco users live in countries with developing or transitional economies.
WHO Takes Aim at Cancer and Tobacco Use
WHO has started a global effort to reduce cancer deaths worldwide—aiming to prevent 8 million cancer deaths by 2015—and a primary focus of that initiative is to lower tobacco use in developing countries.
"Even if smoking rates stayed the same worldwide, we would see a huge increase in cancer incidence in the next decades just because of the growth and aging of the population," said Peter Boyle, Ph.D, director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, a WHO research organization. "Whereas there were 100 million deaths in the 20th century caused by tobacco, if current trends continue, there will be 1 billion in the 21st century. Tobacco is the biggest enemy we face.

Tips on Stopping Smoking

 1. Be Sure You Really Want to Stop 

Want to know how to quit smoking cigarettes and have long term success (i.e. to stop and stay stopped)?There is only one price to pay:You have to want to do it! Really want to! Stop, stay stopped - QUIT - completely.Why? Well, just for the moment, forget about willpower, products, aids and programs. If you attempt to do anything half heartedly, the most likely outcome is failure...

2. Find Real Reasons to Give Up

Don't underestimate the value of this important step.
If you can find real reasons to give up smoking that mean something to you and you will be well on your way.
This is so important, because knowing why you are quitting will serve as motivation to help you through withdrawal symptoms and help you develop practical solutions to the issues you will face while quitting such as coping with stress and withdrawal symptoms.

3. Prepare by Planning

Understanding why and when you smoke will help you to identify practical ways to combat many of the issues you will face while quitting such as coping with stress and withdrawal symptoms, social situations and peer pressure.
Following the steps outlined in planning to quit smoking will help you gather an arsenal of tools and information to develop an effective and highly personalised quit smoking action plan.

4. Stress Relief

Many smokers find that as well as through habit, they tend to want to smoke when faced with stressful situations.
Effective stress relief strategies can help you avoid relapse so finding alternatives is a real NEED to do activity and another one really of those really important quit smoking tips.

5. Avoiding Weight Gain

Quit smoking is challenge enough but some smokers dread the idea of gaining weight. If you fall into the latter camp quitting smoking and weight gain will allay some fears and put the situation firmly into perspective.
For example, a little known fact is that many smokers are in fact underweight, due to prolonged appetite suppression and of those who do put on weight, about half increase their weight by less than two kilos.

6. Beating Nicotine Withdrawal Symptoms

The first few days and weeks after you quit can be the hardest.
Cravings tend to be the most problematic nicotine withdrawal symptoms although not every smoker is affected to the same degree.
That said, few smokers seem to be able to stop without getting them. It is the way your body reacts when it stops getting nicotine and all the other chemicals in tobacco smoke.
If you want to succeed you must decide how you plan to get through them. This is probably one our most sought after quit smoking tips.
See: Quitting Smoking Tips for Cravings.

7. Develop Your Action Plan

If you have followed the tips above to this point you are ready to put together your quit smoking action plan.
You should now have five statements, numbered 1 to 5, which form the backbone of the personal action plan you will follow to quit.
You did make notes, didn't you? If not, see the summaries and links above.

After You Quit Smoking

Some ex-smokers find quitting smoking relatively easy but many will find that staying stopped is the greater challenge.
Once you have quit, it is likely that over time you will think about cigarettes less and less and the urge to smoke will dwindle away. It doesn’t pay to be complacent though as the 'urge' can and often does return when you least expect it.
If you have relapsed, you already have most of the answers after quitting smoking successfully once before. You probably need to rethink some of your strategies but when you are ready to try again it’s simply more of the same.
If you find yourself struggling, relax and don’t stress about it. Try to focus in on what kept you from smoking when you felt the urge while trying to quit initially. What did you do or think about?
Our tips on stopping smoking cover many ways to deal with cravings and withdrawal symptoms, suggestions for stress relief and weight gain. You might find that revisiting them is well worth your while.
The quit smoking action plan in particular, helps you to identify potential obstacles and planning for how you will deal with the urge, if and when it returns. So, should you need direction, refer to it, amend it if necessary and plug on.

After Quitting Smoking Tips

1. Do try and think of yourself as a non-smoker from day one and remember there is always a better solution than a cigarette.
2. As a non smoker you have found new ways to deal with all the situations that you previously associated with smoking.
3. Remember that having just one cigarette will only make you feel better momentarily but staying stopped will make you healthier and wealthier in the long term.
4. If you find that your problems are peer or social pressure related, tell those that are making staying stopped difficult that you are serious.
5. Explain how they could make life easier for you.
6. Try and socialise with those that are supportive of your efforts.
7. Refuse all offers of cigarettes. The temptation to have 'just one' will lead to others and straight back to regular smoking. 

        EFFECTS OF SMOKING!!!

 

 

     Harmful Health Effects of Smoking

• Every year hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from diseases caused by smoking cigarettes - Smoking KILLS.
• One in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age.
• Tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of cancers.
• The mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels.
• This can cause heart attacks and stroke. It slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers end up having their limbs
  amputated.
• Tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer. A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.
• Changing to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeper puffs and hold the smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs.
• Carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body and especially your heart work harder. Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into your lungs.
• Smoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. The strain of smoking effects on the body often causes years of suffering.
• Emphysema for example is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.
• Lung cancer from smoking is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke.
• Men who smoke are ten times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers.
• Heart disease and strokes are also more common among smokers than non-smokers.
• Smoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels which leads to heart attack.
• Smoking causes around one in five deaths from heart disease.
• In younger people, three out of four deaths from heart disease are due to smoking
• Cigarette smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of low birth weight, prematurity, spontaneous abortion, and perinatal mortality in humans, which has been referred to as the fetal tobacco syndrome.

 

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Expecting your answers to this survey in comment box......

Help us to build a tobacco free World.......

1. How long you started smoking ?
   [ ] less than 6 months                      [ ] less than 1 year
   [ ] less than 2 year                           [ ] more than 2 year
2. How many cigertte you smoke/day on an average ?
   [ ] 1-2                                               [ ] below 5
   [ ] above 5                                        [ ] rarely smoke
3. How did you start smoking ?
   [ ] inspired from elders/parents       [ ] peer pressure
   [ ] due to stress                                 [ ] other reason (if specify)
4. Are you aware about ill effects of smoking ?
   [ ] yes [ ] no
5. What do you think about quit smoking ?
   [ ] i cann't                                        [ ] plan to quit smoking
   [ ] i have quit
6. From your personal experience , what are the merits of smoking ?
   
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Why smoking...?

	Nowadays it would be unheard of for people not to smoke. Smoking is a part of everyday life, although, believe it or not, it has only recently become so. There are over one thousand million smokers throughout the world, which is an astonishing number, considering the harm smoking does to your body, which we are all well aware of. With this in mind, the question "why do people smoke?" is a really complicated one, that is now being explored much more in depth by many of the world's doctors and scientists.
It has only recently been proved that smoking causes lung cancer amongst other serious diseases and that passive smoking is also harmful for those that do not smoke. Thus, more and more governments are trying to make people aware of the health risks and consequences of smoking. Some governments have even banned smoking in all indoor public places. Cigarettes are widely available and in many countries fairly inexpensive to buy. For this reason, buying cigarettes is no longer a luxury only for those who can afford to buy them, but a product that is widely attainable by most people.