Hello guys, are you all alright ? I think so. How many of you taking poison everyday ? Wait wait ! You heard it right. I am talking about slow poison which many of our loved ones take everyday which is tobacco. There are many ways to consume tobacco and most of its addicted like to take it as a smoking. even government tries to awake us through different campaigns but the consumers of smoking increases everyday. Which is very big problem to our generation. So let's start it..
First of all we will talk about why a person starts smoking ? And what are the reason behind starting smoking ?
Most of the people start smoking in their teenage. When they don't know what it produce to its body. In India, from 2003 any type of advertisement related to smoking and tobacco is banned in India. From that time ciggerate and tobacco companies sells are started decreased. But now 77% of Indian movies which writes that smoking produces cancer and smoking kills in the start of movie contains scenes in which leading actor or actress smokes. So companies started to provide funds to production houses to click scenes of smoking. And this indirect advertisement affects and produce 52% of all smokers which is very large number. Teenagers starts to copy celebrities as they think that smokers look cool. And only for show off some teenagers starts smoking. Other reason is that in some movie scenes they show that after breakup actor starts smoking and consume alcohol. And teenagers thinks it as a trend and starts copy that. This is few common reasons to start smoking. Another one is some teenagers just want to try it and after that addicted to it. Some smoker friends are also play a big role in starting smoking.
Now we will see how and why you became addicted to smoking ? Many of you know that tobacco contains a chemicals known as nicotine which is a addictive substance in tobacco. Addiction can be physical or psychological. Many individuals thinks that they became addicted but actually they're not addicted due to material substance it is psychological addiction or we can say a delusion as if it became addicted. Frequent use of smoking is a only reason to became addicted.
Above this we will see how smoking affects the human body ?
Smoking and tobacco nearly affects every organ of our body. there are nearly 4000 different chemicals found in tobacco smoke. And most of its effect produces due the chemical named nicotine.
Now I will mention some key factors and numerics related to tobacco addiction which is referred from the article of world health organization.
Tobacco kills more than 8 million people each year. More than 7 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while around 1.2 million are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.
There are nearly 1.3 billion tobacco users worldwide from which 80% are belongs from low socioeconomic status.
Man consumes more tobacco in comparison of women. From every 5 smokers 4 is men and 1 is women.
Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Smoking also increases risk for tuberculosis, certain eye diseases, and problems of the immune system, including rheumatoid arthritis.
Now we will how nicotine affects on our body ? And how a person gets addicted ?
Note :- This part of the blog taken completely from the study of American Cancer Society so the credit goes to them.
• Nicotine and other chemicals in tobacco smoke are easily absorbed into the blood through the lungs. From there, nicotine quickly spreads throughout the body.
• When taken in small amounts, nicotine causes pleasant feelings and distracts the user from unpleasant feelings. This makes the tobacco user want to use more. It acts on the chemistry of the brain and central nervous system, affecting mood. Nicotine works very much like other addicting drugs, by flooding the brain’s reward circuits with a chemical called dopamine. Nicotine also gives a little bit of an adrenaline rush – not enough to notice, but enough to speed up the heart and raise blood pressure.
• Nicotine reaches the brain within seconds after taking a puff, and its effects start to wear off within a few minutes. The user may start to feel irritated and edgy. Usually it doesn’t reach the point of serious withdrawal symptoms, but the person using the product gets more uncomfortable over time. This is what most often leads the person to light up again. At some point, the person uses tobacco, the unpleasant feelings go away, and the cycle continues. If the person doesn’t smoke again soon, withdrawal symptoms get worse over time.
As the body adapts to nicotine, people who use it tend to increase the amount of tobacco they use. This raises the amount of nicotine in their blood, and more tobacco is needed to get the same effect. This is called tolerance. Over time, a certain nicotine level is reached and the person will need to keep up the usage to keep the level of nicotine within a comfortable range.
• People who smoke can quickly become dependent on nicotine and suffer physical and emotional (mental or psychological) withdrawal symptoms when they stop smoking. These symptoms include irritability, nervousness, headaches, and trouble sleeping. The true mark of addiction, though, is that people still smoke even though they know smoking is bad for them – affecting their lives, their health, and their families in unhealthy ways. In fact, most people who smoke want to quit.
Effects of smoking and tobacco :-
1) Cancer :- Use of tobacco increases risk of many type of cancer, such as lung cancer.
2) Heart disease :- Cigarette smoking and heart disease like coronary artery disease are interrelated.
3) COPD :- smoking from the teenage increases the risk of COPD.
4) Pregnancy :- Smoking increases the risk of Pregnancy related complication.
Every organs in our body is affected from smoking and I will write a blog in detail about effects of smoking on particular organs and prevention of this effects.
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