Smoking : Habit for death
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When you inhale
a cigarette puff, nicotine reaches in brain after 10 seconds, trigrring
feeling of pressure, increasing heart rate and raising blood pressure. But
alongside the nicotine, smokers breath in a deadly cocktail of chemicals arsenic formaldehyde
and polonium.
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Nicotine itself
doesn't cause cancer, it just keep the smoker's addiction. Tobacco is so
addictive that it should be classified as an illigal class B Drug Dr says.
Researches also shows that 70 percent of smokers want to give up smoking
but are held back by trhe power nicotine has over them. Only one of five
who try quitting manage to abstain for a year while just three
percent succeed in breaking the habit by will power alone.
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Helping
you to kick the habit
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Nicotine replacement
therapy (NRT) helps lessen your urge to smoke by reducing the carving for
the drug nicotine when you stop smoking. Type of NRT include the patch,
gum, nasal spray and inhaler. Alternative therapy include new pills Zyban
and Champix.
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Patch : steady, continuous provider of drugs. It comes in
varying strengths to wean smokers over and 8 to 10 week period.
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Gum : Treatments starts at nine pieces daily and decreases in
strength and frequency over 12 week.
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Inhaler : take a drug from cigarette shaped device to inhale
nicotine-infused vapour Users puff six to 16 cartridge a day for upto six
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Nasal spray : provides instant relief from carvings, but only
available by precription. |
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Related News and article
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Smoking serious pregnancy condition
: Smoking during pregnancy raised the risk of abruption during that
pregnancy but seemed to have little impact on the risk in future
pregnancies. |
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