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Contents
Introduction
1.What is Smoking?
2.What is acigarette?
3. Health Effects of Smoking
4.Time to quit smoking
4.1) It’s Never Too Late to Quit
4.2)Quitting Feels Good
5.How to quit smoking?
6.What happens when you quit smoking? What to expect when i stop
smoking?
6.1) Short term effects when you quit smoking
6.2) Long term effects when you quit smoking
6.3) What are the side effects when you quit smoking?
References

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Tables and figures
Figure 1 What are you smoking?
Figure 2 Death rate from cancers caused by smoking.
Figure 3 Health effects of smoking.
Figure 4 When you quit smoking .

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Introduction
Like most people, you already know that smoking is bad for your health. But do you
really understand just how dangerous smoking really is? Tobacco contains nicotine, a
highly addictive drug that makes it difficult for smokers to kick the habit. Tobacco
products also contain many poisonous and harmful substances that cause disease and
premature death. Did you know that out of a group of 1000 smokers (age 30), that a
full quarter of them (250!) will die of smoking-related illnesses prior to completing
middle age, an additional quarter will die prematurely from smoking-related illnesses
shortly after retirement age, and another large group will develop debilitating chronic
illnesses as a result of their smoking? Most people don't know the odds of getting sick
as a result of smoking are really that bad, but when you do the numbers, that is how
they come out. For many people, truly understanding the very real dangers associated
with smoking becomes the motivating factor that helps them to quit.
Although it can be a very difficult habit to break, smoking is ultimately a choice; it is
your responsibility to choose whether or not you will continue to smoke.
This article provides a brief synopsis of the risks associated with smoking; an
overview of nicotine addiction, including why it is so difficult to give up smoking;
and an outline of the advantages and disadvantages of quiting. Once you have decided
to quit, you will benefit from the information in this article about the physiological,
psychological, and behavioral aspects of nicotine addiction; the different methods
available to help you quit; and the steps you can take to make the process easier.
Learning about and understanding the many facets of the smoking habit can put you
on the right track to successful smoking cessation.

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1.What is Smoking?
Smoking refers to the inhalation and exhalation of fumes from burning tobacco in
cigars, cigarettes and pipes.
Historically, smoking as a practice, was followed by natives of the Western
Hemisphere, in religious rituals and for medicinal purposes. It has a history starting
from the late 1500s. We would try to answer the question as to what is smoking later.
Explorers of the New World saw it fit to introduce tobacco into Europe, in-spite of
the opposition from the then rulers. But the novelty and thrill factor won over many a
new user.
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, cigarettes were higher in demand than the
cigars and pipes, which had been popular amongst smokers until then.
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2.What is acigarette ?
A cigarette may look harmless enough - tobacco leaves covered in white paper. But
when it burns, it releases a dangerous cocktail of over 5,000 chemicals including:
 many chemicals known to cause cancer
 hundreds of other poisons.
 nicotine, a highly addictive drug
 and many additives designed to make cigarettes taste nicer and keep smokers
hooked.
Some of these chemicals, like nicotine, are found naturally in the tobacco plant or
absorbed by the plant from the soil, air and fertilisers (such as metals and polonium-
210).
Other chemicals, including nitrosamines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, are
formed when the tobacco leaves are processed or burnt. This is all before the tobacco
industry add the hundreds of other chemicals to cigarettes.This is why there is no safe
way to use tobacco.

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Figure 1
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(3)Health Effects of Smoking:
Tobacco smoke contains nicotine – a poisonous alkaloid – and other harmful
substances like carbon monoxide, ammonia, prussic acid and a number of aldehydes
and tars.
Health reports giving definitive proof that cigarette smoking is a serious health
hazard have been submitted from time to time by the Surgeon General’s Advisory
Committee on Health, appointed by the U.S. Public Health Service. Findings include
that a smoker has a significantly greater chance of contracting lung cancer than a
nonsmoker, depending on factors such as number of cigarettes smoked daily, number
of years the subject smoked and the time in the person’s life when he or she began
smoking.
Additionally, the report also gave proof of smoking being a primary cause of chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, heart disease, stroke and other
cardiovascular diseases.

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Figure 2
Smoking has proved to pose a threat to male potency. Pipe and cigar smokers are a
comparatively fortunate lot as compared to cigarette smokers, if they do not inhale.
They are not as prone to lung cancer as cigarette smokers.
On the downside, the former set is just as likely to develop cancers of the mouth,
larynx and esophagus. Groups of people indulging in snuff or chewing tobacco-a.k
a smokeless tobacco – also run a greater risk of developing cancer of the mouth
Smoking Affects those Associated with Smokers too
Health groups are increasingly targeting smokers who inhale tobacco smoke for
increasing the risk of heart disease and respiratory problems for them. These have
resulted in dedicated movements for smokeless environments in public spaces such as
government buildings, office buildings and restaurants.

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Regulation of Smoking:
Due to mounting facts of health risks, television advertisements for cigarettes are
increasingly being banned and governments world over are advising for stronger
warning labels on all print advertising. It is now the responsibility of The Framework
Convention on Tobacco Control, a treaty adopted by World Health Organization
members in 2003, to establish international standards for anti smoking measures
once it is ratified. This convention creates precincts on the marketing/sales of tobacco
products.
Figure 3
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(4)Time to quit smoking
4.1)It’s Never Too Late to Quit
Although life expectancy was shortened by more than 10 years among current
smokers compared to never-smokers. Adults who quit smoking before the age of 40
regained almost all of those lost years.
 Smokers who quit between the ages of 35 to 44 gained 9 years of life.
 Smokers who quit between the ages of 45 to 54 gained 6 years of life.
 Smokers who quit between the ages of 55 to 64 gained 4 years of life.
4.2)Quitting Feels Good

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In as little as 20 minutes after your last cigarette, your body begins to heal itself in the
following ways:
 20 minutes after quitting, your heart rate drops.
 12 hours after quitting, carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal.
 2 weeks to 3 months after quitting, your heart attack risk begins to drop. Your
lung function begins to improve.
 1 to 9 months after quitting, your coughing and shortness of breath decrease.
 1 year after quitting, your added risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a
smoker’s.
 5 – 15 years after quitting, your stroke risk is reduced to that of a nonsmoker’s
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 10 years after quitting, your lung cancer death rate is about half that of a
smoker’s. Your risk of cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder,
kidney, and pancreas decreases.
15 years after quitting, your risk of coronary heart disease is back to
that of a nonsmoker’s and your risk of death returns to nearly the level
of people who have never smoked..
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5)How to quit smoking?
1. Pick a quit day
2. Join a support group of people who are trying to quit
3. Behavioral therapy
With behavioral therapy, you visit a therapist who will help you find the most
effective way to quit. The therapist will help you to identify your triggers,
come up with ways to get through cravings, and provide emotional support
when you need it most.
4. Nicotine replacement therapy
Nicotine gum, patches, inhalers, sprays, and lozenges are nicotine replacement
therapies (called NRT). Replacement therapy works by giving you nicotine
without using tobacco. You may be more likely quit smoking if you use
nicotine replacement therapy.
5. Medicine
Some drugs are formulated to help people quit smoking.
6. If you slip up, don’t give up. Try quitting again

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6)What happens when you quit smoking? What to expect when i stop
smoking?
6.1) Short term effects when you quit smoking are:
o Your blood pressure will become normal within only 20 minutes if you quit
smoking right now.
o The oxygen levels of your blood will return to normal within 8 hours.
o Your sense of smell will return to normal within 2 days.
o Your chances of having heart attack will also reduce in the same amount of time.
o Nicotine level from blood will decrease remarkably in the same period.
o Within 2 to 8 weeks circulation in the body will increase.
6.2) Long term effects when you quit smoking:
o Within 9 months your lung capacity will improve by 10% due to which breathing
related problems will dissipate.
o The risk of heart attack due to smoking will reduce to half within 1 year.
o The risk of heart stroke which might have been caused due to your smoking habit
will reduce to none within 5 years.
o The risk of lung cancer will become like a person who has never smoked within
10 years.
o The risk of heart attack which might have been induced by your smoking habit
will become nil within 15 years.
Above all quitting smoking will give a big boost to your morale and feeling of
achievement. YES, I thought, I tried and I achieved what millions have tried and
failed.
6.3) What are the side effects when you quit smoking?
Once you decide and suddenly quit smoking, the body is in kind of a state of loss.
Your body is confused and doesn’t know how to work normally as it was unable to
work normally since long. The common side effects when you quit smoking are:
o Blood sugar might go down
o headache
o insomnia
o irritation
o drowsiness
o cough
o weight gain
o ubiquitous sweet tooth
There is no need to worry about the above problems since they are temporary and
should vanish within 3-5 days.

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Figure 4

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