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Stop smoking ? A difficult objective.
Find here a positiv vision and some folder on stereotypes

Summary: -The positive effects of smoking cessation in time. -Active-Smokers : Lungs are not spared so far -Cigarette : Do not begin to avoid having to stop - Plan Anti-Tobacco

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The positive effects of smoking cessation time After the decision: The first positive effects of withdrawal are felt within a few hours. The damage of tobacco are gradually reversible. This state of health than joining a non-smoker in about fifteen years
8 hours	The oxygenation of the blood returns to normal. The risk of myocardial infarction began to decline.
24 hours	Carbon monoxide is eliminated from the body. The lungs begin to remove mucus and tar. The risk of respiratory infections, bronchitis and pneumonia type, begins to decline.
48 hours	Nicotine is more detectable in the blood.
1 week	The senses of taste and smell improves
3 to 9 months	Breathing improves (less coughing, more breath) Lung function is increased by 5 to 10%
1 year	The risk of heart disease (myocardial for example) is halved
5 years	The risk of stroke is reduced by half. The risk of cancer of the mouth, esophagus and bladder are reduced by half.
10 years	The risk of lung cancer is halved. The risk of stroke reaches the level of risk of non-smokers.
15 years	The risk of heart disease (myocardial for example) reaches the non-smokers one. Mortality (all causes) reaches nearly that of people who have never smoked.
Full article available in the August 2001 issue of science et vie

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Active-Smokers:
Lungs are not spared so far

The active smokers have the same risk of lung cancer than sedentary.
Smokers who think that walking, cycling, swimming or practicing another physical activity reduces the risk of lung cancer are wrong.
So says a study published in the International Journal of Cancer.
More than 25,000 men aged 50 to 69 years were followed during this study.
They smoked at least five cigarettes per day.
After ten years of follow up, lung cancer was diagnosed in more than 1,400 participants.
The results show that physical activity does not influence the risk of lung cancer.
There would, however, a slightly lower risk among younger smokers in the group studied who are physically active.

Référence :
Colbert LH : Physical activity and lung cancer risk in male smokers. Int J Cancer 2002 Apr 10;98(5):770-3

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Smoking :
Do not begin to avoid having to stop !
In France, smoking kills 60 000 persons per year.

One French adults on 3 smoke regularly or occasionally.
But 58.4% of these smokers say they want to stop.
Because everyone knows the dangers of tobacco
The substances contained in cigarettes are in fact very harmful to health.
Thus, the Tar clogs the lungs and difficulty breathing.
In addition, smoking can cause fatal diseases like cancer.
But cigarettes contain a product of nicotine, making the smoker addicted.
He suffered physically from the lack of cigarettes. .
This is why many smokers find it hard to stop.
To help, there are now products (patch to stick on the skin, chewing gum) that give the body a dose of nicotine increasingly smaller until nothing more is needed. But aid is most effective will.
To fight against tobacco, we must also change the habits of the French and the image of smoking. Particularly among youth.
Beacause it is during adolescence that most smokers light up their 1st cigarette.
Thus, only 5% of 12-13 year olds smoke but 50% of 18-19 years are smokers.
Because smoking is often a way to be as the adult and assert his freedom.
In any case the claim that the tobacco companies in their advertising.
For them, it is important to attract young people who are their future customers..

And who will one day be one of the 60,000 people who died every year because of tobacco in France.

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