Harm of smoking and its effect on human health

On cigarette packs today you can see a lot of different frightening pictures, promising nicotine-dependent people cheerless prospects with health. Most smokers in no way react to such images, nor to exhortations of doctors, naively believing or justifying themselves that the harm of smoking is greatly exaggerated. But against the facts and statistics you can not trample: every year in the world 5 million people die, and not having had time to abandon this harmful habit .

Harm from smoking cigarettes

The damage from smoking is not a myth and an empty horror of doctors. To soberly assess the seriousness of these words, it will be sufficient to simply find out that one cigarette contains more than 4,000 toxic substances, among which 3 are deadly:

• toxic gases;
• nicotine;
• resin.

The effect of smoking on the human body

Smoking harms health - it's a fact! But few know what happens at the very moment of nicotine trauma to the body:

1. During the tightening, nicotine, resinous and toxic substances, combustion products such as soot, soot and gases penetrate and affect all organs of the respiratory system.
2. A year in the alveoli of the lungs, about 1 kg of toxic resins settles.
3. There is a big load on the heart and blood vessels.
4. Skin, skeleton, liver and food system get enormous harm from smoking.
5. On the part of the nervous system, addiction to nicotine is noted, akin to the narcotic.
6. Breathing paths throughout the smoking life are in the mode of not passing inflammation, which provokes the development of oncology, bronchial pathologies and chronic cough, as a protective reaction of the body to toxic substances.
7. Cigarettes significantly reduce immunity, make the body unstable to infections and viruses and also have a negative effect on brain performance.

Regular smoking negatively affects the work of all systems and organs. But the harm of smoking for women, especially nulliparous or pregnant, increases many times and extends not only to the future mother, but also to the baby, even if it is not yet in the womb, and the baby only figures in the plans for the future. What the "smoking" mother expects:

• insufficient weight of the child at birth;
• high birth rate;
• prematurity of the fetus;
• congenital pathologies;
• miscarriages and stiff pregnancies ;
• delayed development of children.

The effect of smoking on the nervous system

The nervous system is the most organized and fragile link in our body. Mentioning about the dangers of smoking, first of all, the influence of tobacco on the National Assembly should be considered dangerous. Addiction is one of the most important criteria that smoking is harmful. Inveterate smokers, when tightened, feel a surge of energy, activation of mental activity, pacification and concentration of attention. This is to some extent true, because nicotine, as a drug, upon ingestion activates the pleasure center in the brain, making smokers nicotine "slaves."

The defeat of the higher nervous system, which result in antisocial behavior, attacks of aggression, irritability. Peripheral nervous system also suffers from tobacco. Result:

• neuritis;
• radiculitis;
• polyneuritis.

The effect of smoking on the brain

The negative impact of smoking on the body is very large. The components of tobacco smoke are most sensitive to the CNS and the brain. Under the influence of nicotine, the vessels of the brain narrow, causing brain hypoxia, and as a consequence develops:

• weakening memory;
• systematic headaches;
• scattered attention;
• weakening of the bioelectric activity of the brain;

The effect of smoking on the cardiovascular system

Among other things, the harm of smoking extends to the cardiovascular system. The risk of developing cardiac pathologies for smokers is increased by 5 times! What is the cause of the pathological effect of smoking on the heart?

1. Hypoxemia - a deficiency of oxygen in the blood, developing against the backdrop of many years of smoking, is the cause of many cardiovascular diseases, including atherosclerosis.
2. Nicotine contributes not only to increasing the pressure in the vessels and increasing the load on them, but also increases the level of catecholamines (neurotransmitters) in the blood.
3. Tobacco resins cause vasospasm, which leads to their damage and to the increased work of the heart due to lack of oxygen. The result of this influence is ischemic heart disease .
4. Increased thrombosis leads to heart attacks, strokes.

Effect of smoking on the gastrointestinal tract

Over 65% of cases of development and exacerbation of gastric ulcer are associated with nicotine addiction, and this is another weighty reason why it is harmful to smoke.

1. Smoking disrupts the nervous and humoral regulation of the stomach, as a result of which a smoker can experience either severe hunger or a complete lack of appetite. Because of this disturbance, the digestive system throws out the substances necessary for digesting food (acid, bile), regardless of whether the food has entered the stomach.
2. Each puffiness provokes a spasm of smooth muscles and inhibits the work of the intestines, so that food can stagnate in the upper parts of the digestive tract, not allowing the body to absorb all the necessary nutrients.
3. Most poisonous compounds of tobacco smoke with saliva enter the stomach, and even small doses are enough to cause inflammation of the gastric mucosa.

Harm to smoking hookah

Such a popular oriental fun with fruit flavored smoke at first glance seems absolutely harmless. But is it really harmful to smoke a hookah? Understand this is necessary, because the popularity of such services in many places of entertainment every day increases.

According to the Ministry of Health, the harm from smoking a hookah is definitely there! Recent research has shown that:

1. The hourly session of the hookah smoke for harmfulness is equal to a hundred smoked cigarettes.
2. A 45 minute hookah session poisons the body with carbon monoxide more than one pack of simple cigarettes at the same time. It should also be noted that the temperature of the coal in the hookah is 650 ° C, and harmful smoke is able to penetrate even deeper into the respiratory tract.
3. In avid hookah smokers in the body there is an increased content of arsenic, lead, chromium, carboxyhemoglobin.
4. Hookah can provoke the development of the same pathologies as cigarettes, and even infertility.
5. Smoking hookah in a large company leads to a high risk of transmission of diseases by airborne droplets, because with a hookah mouthpiece for a session several people come into contact, and when smoking saliva increases.

Harm from smoking wakes

Many smokers to get rid of the addictive habit shift to electronic cigarettes. However, it is harmful to smokes, and not only because of inhaled fumes that can cause respiratory system diseases, but also because of the composition of the mixture, which includes:

1. Glycerin, which disrupts the work and structure of blood vessels. Negatively affects the blood circulation. It is a beneficial environment for the development of pathogenic microbes.
2. Nicotine.
3. Propylene glycol provokes allergic reactions: a rash, swelling of the nasal mucosa, etc.
4. Flavors enhance the harmful effects of nicotine.
5. Metals, resins, carcinogens, products of combustion and oxidation cause the greatest harm from smoking. They cause intoxication of the body and affect almost all systems and organs, starting from the respiratory tract and circulatory system.

Harm from smoking marijuana

In some countries and US states, marijuana is prescribed as a medicine. However, doctors take this step only in cases when there is no other way out, and taking into account that the damage from smoking grass is less than from the disease itself. In addition to the fact that marijuana is a drug, this herb has other disadvantages:

• the strongest defeat of psychomotor and cognitive functions;
• a strong negative effect on the central nervous system and the brain;
• risk of developing schizophrenia;
• uncontrollable hunger;
• antisocial behavior;
• depression and addiction;
• decreased immunity;
• impaired vision;
• angina pectoris, arrhythmia, hyper- or hypotension;
• damage to the respiratory system by tar and combustion products.

Harm of passive smoking

Even for those who are not a "hostage" of cigarettes, smoking causes severe harm in a passive way, because up to 60% of the toxic substances from tobacco fall into the air. Breathing the air poisoned by the smoke of cigarettes, a person is exposed to the strongest negative effects:

• carbon monoxide poisoning;
• oxygen starvation;
• poisoning with nitrogen oxide;
• aldehyde oppression of the nervous system;
• poisoning with formaldehydes;
• damage to the body as a whole by hydrogen cyanide;
• destruction of brain cells due to inhalation of nitrosamine;
• irritation of the bronchi and nasopharynx with acrolein - an element of burning tobacco;
• risk of oncology, as a consequence of exposure to carcinogens of tobacco smoke.

How to minimize the harm from smoking?

To counteract the negative effect of smoking on the body can be a mere refusal of an addiction, but if a person is unable to quit smoking, it is possible to reduce the harm of smoking using several rules:

• do not smoke on the go;
• do not smoke in the cold;
• do not smoke on an empty stomach;
• smoke only when you really want;
• spend more time in the fresh air;
• replenish vitamin C deficiency ;
• do sport;
• do not smoke next to non-smokers.

Myths about the dangers of smoking

Often, those who zealously defends their rights to smoke, are ready to "feed" people with fables on the topic that the cigarette is not so deadly, and generally has its own fat advantages. Let's try to honestly answer the question, is it harmful to smoke?

1. Myth 1 . Nicotine promotes relaxation. Not quite so - the ritual itself relaxes, not the substances in the tobacco smoke.
2. Myth 2 . Nicotine is used by marathon runners as doping, but no one specifies that before the introduction of the ban on doping, many athletes died directly at distances from the loads, coupled with the harmful effects of stimulants.
3. Myth 3 . Nicotine stimulates blood flow and the nervous system ... At the same time increasing the load on the body, increasing the level of catecholamines and causing addiction.