Ten myths about smoking and the harm they cause.
The fact that the drop of nicotine kills the horse, and smoking causes cancer, known to every child. However, the number of smokers each year is not decreasing. And largely to blame prevailing myths about smoking.
The first myth. The most harmful in cigarettes – is nicotine.
Vykurivaya cigarette, a person ingests from 0,1 to 1,8 milligrams of nicotine and, according to the saying about a drop of nicotine, would have to go to the cemetery after the first bundle. In fact, nicotine is not carcinogenic. This, above all, a drug that is addictive and causes smoke. Burning cigarette – this is a whole chemical factory that produces more than 4 thousand different compounds, including mutagenic, toxic and some carcinogens cause mutations of DNA.
The second myth. Cigars and pipe smoking is safer because they are not tightened.
These smokers really rarely cause lung cancer because they are not made to inhale the smoke.However, it is cigar and pipe smoking contributes to cancer of the larynx and lips. By the way, cigars – the leaders on the content of resins.
The third myth. Smoking calms the nerves and save us from stress.
In fact, the components of tobacco (tar, nicotine, smoke) do not relax, and simply “slow down” the most important parts of the central nervous system. Accustomed to the cigarette, without her man is relaxing in fact not. A vicious circle: the emergence and cessation of stress become dependent on smoking.
Myth fourth. Smokers will keep slender figure.
Contact cigarettes with its own weight – another myth, unfortunately, very common. Relationship “the more I smoke, the less I will weigh” really exists. Here are just realized it at the expense of health: first, disrupt digestion, and then start various diseases. Blunting cigarette hunger, you encourage the development of gastritis and peptic ulcer disease. But who thinks about it, when you want to get into a swimsuit a size 34? Lose weight with the help of smoking – it’s like to instill a contagious disease and “melt” from her eyes.
MYTH fifth. Light cigarettes are not as harmful as usual.
So-called light cigarettes – with a low content of nicotine – no less harmful than their “full” counterparts. Low-nicotine causes smokers inhale more deeply reflexively, to achieve the desired effect, and a greater number of harmful substances and carcinogens gets into the lungs.Besides a small amount of nicotine provokes an increase in the frequency of smoking. Always use light cigarettes, smokers are more protracted and deeper than that, subsequently, could also lead to lung cancer.
MYTH sixth. Passive smoking is not dangerous to health.
Doctors have long shown that passive smokers are victims of tobacco. While smoking in the company, a person at risk not only become accustomed to tobacco smoke (from what one step to the cigarette), but also to get the whole “bouquet” of diseases associated with smoking.Contact with the secondary smoke causes irritation of eyes, nose, throat. In addition, there is irritation of the respiratory system, manifested in coughing, discomfort in the chest, and reduced lung function. Passive smoking can affect the cardiovascular system, reduces the ability of blood to carry oxygen to the heart, which leads to a decrease in physical activity. It is estimated that a period of one hour in a “smoky” room is equivalent to four smoked cigarette.
MYTH seventh. Smoking contributes to concentration.
No. Stimulation of the nervous system, nicotine leads to depletion of energy resources of the brain. Tobacco becomes a kind of stimulant: when performing a complex mental activity a person starts to smoke one cigarette after another just to make this same concentration not to lose.
MYTH eighth. After many years of smoking to leave late.
Indeed, regular tobacco use causes irreversible damage to several vital organs of our body, but even a heavy smoker feels better state of health after a certain time after the last cigarette you smoke.
MYTH ninth. There is no way to quit smoking, but willpower.
It should distinguish between physiological, psychological and social factors of nicotine addiction. And if psychology is really enough to show determination and willpower, then the physiological problem can cope specialists.
MYTH tenth. Almost all smokers.
Most of humanity does not smoke. In economically developed countries, the fashion for smoking gradually passes. Now civilized society cultivates a sporty style, sports figure, regular physical exercise, daily exercises. Smoking can hinder career. More and more employers refuse to hire smokers. In the U.S. more than 35 million people quit smoking in England – more than 8 million people. In Russia this problem at the state level have become engaged recently.
The problem is really serious: smoke everywhere, but not all.
