The risks associated with smoking are not an exaggeration. It is true that tobacco smoke contains 4000 chemicals, all of which are very harmful to the body. These chemicals have resulted in deaths of millions of people all over the world. Most of these chemicals are agents of cancer in the body. Smoking is the hardest things for anyone to stop and there is not any doubt about that, however you can make it very easy on yourself just by approaching it in a right way. There are many people all across the world who try to stop. However, they are scared for the health & their relationships, just to find that they cannot.

However, the manner in which these millions of deaths is determined has often been suspected to be flawed. Additionally, some chemicals that are found in cigarettes have also been found to exist in some nutritionally helpful diets such as carrots and vegetables. A good example is carcinogens, which are found in carrots and many other nutritional foods. The seven carcinogens that are suspected to exist in tobacco are similar to the ones that are found in strawberries, carrots and cayenne peppers.

In order for toluene levels to reach unacceptable levels, the smoker has to inhale very large quantities of smoke simultaneously. This condition cannot be brought about during ordinary smoking sessions. More researches are being done in order to correct methodological flaws that have dogged efforts to determine the real threat that is caused by cigarette smoke.

In addition, it is rather intriguing to note that some chemicals that exist in cigarettes are also found in many normal diets. It is not clear whether these chemicals change their state during the smoking process in order for the threat to exist. If you took half pounds of crab, you will be subjecting your body to the same cadmium levels as someone who is smoking eight packs of cigarettes. Answer is taking your mind-off smoking & by using some other method of distracting you from that.

Many people are never quick to deny the claim that anti-smoking crusaders often get the facts wrong especially when it comes to counting the real economic cost of the smoking habit. These costs relate to medication, medical examination and prevention of smoking-related illnesses. So, it is very important for you to quit smoking as soon as possible, and you need to get right treatment if you really want to end.

I have written many articles on the dangers and detrimental consequences of smoking, but yet never really took the time to ask myself can there really be any positive effects of smoking? With millions of smokers out there has to be something good about it that keeps these people coming back for more.

Smoking kills some and leaves others seriously ill, however, there I’m sure that there has to be at least one positive effect of cigarettes that can result from this deadly habit. One very interesting benefit of smoking that I found was that more evidence has surfaced that smoking fights Parkinson’s disease. Specifically, the new research shows a temporal connection between smoking and diminished risk of Parkinson’s disease. This means that the protective effects diminish when the smoker quits.

This same study also found another positive of smoking. This time the benefit relates to restenosis, that is, the occlusion of coronary arteries. A smoker has a greater chance to survive, heal and live a fairly normal life. In addition, ‘completely’ contrary to as is accepted, the study concluded that smokers really are at a lower risk for gum disease, which I found particularly is interesting (I personally have to do more research on this before I can accept that).

Going on, it was deemed in a multivariate analysis, that children of mothers who smoked around fifteen cigarettes a day tended to have less of a chance for suffering from allergic rhino-conjunctivitis, allergic asthma, atopic eczema and food allergy, compared to children of non smoking mothers. Kids of fathers who had smoked at least fifteen cigarettes a day had a similar benefit. Children of smokers have lower asthma. Also, they found that nicotine might be a shocking option at some point in time for treating stubborn forms of tuberculosis. “The compound ceased the development of tuberculosis in laboratory tests, even when employed in small doses”, said Saleh Naser, an associate professor of microbiology and molecular biology at the University of Central Florida.

Finally, a researcher at the National Cancer Institute is going rogue by suggesting that smoking may operate as a preventative measure for developing a certain type of skin cancer that primarily attacks older men in Mediterranean regions of Southern Italy, Greece and Israel.

You really have to consider the claims made above, however. These claims have not been substantiated by any reputable body, making them somewhat illegitimate. The deadly effects of smoking are many and well documented, so for anyone to imply that it is alright to smoke knowing full well of the dangers in order to prevent other illnesses, is somewhat ridiculous.

As I anticipated I was able to find some positive effects of smoking, however I think any reasobly intelligent human being can see that these possible smoking benefits are no match in comparison the damage that smoking does to the human body. Remember also these are simply theories and very little evidence is there to back up these benefits of smoking, while the thousands of cases with negative consequences keeps piling up every year. The good in all of this is that we were able to find at least one positive effect of smoking…Put one on the board for the “cancer stick.”

How to remove smoking smell from clothes? There are a few ways which will be listed. Firstly, if you have a mode on your washer like “hand wash” or “ultra hand wash,” you should put the piece of clothing in cold water with Woolite, not regular detergent. You may also do that by hand and in either case, hang the suit up to dry. This ought to work without leaving any damage. You may also hang the suit in a well ventilated area and spray it with Febreeze and let it air out for about one day or two. As you may have realized already, cigarette smoke smell is really hard to get out of clothing. Secondly, you could wash them thrice in a row with color safe bleach and hang dry them and do not wear them until you are done. Note that you should not place them into an actual dryer until you have finished this.

Or, you may follow these steps, for if you have spent many consecutive hours around cigarette smoke, regular washing of the clothing items may not get rid of all of the cigarette smoke smell. By applying white vinegar before you wash, you can get rid of the cigarette smoke smell from your clothing. Fill the sink with cold water and between half a cup to one cup of white vinegar. How much vinegar you add should hinge on how many clothes you are washing and how much the clothes reek of cigarette smoke. Next, soak the clothes in the mixture for fifteen minutes. Then, hang your clothes in the bathroom, suitably in close proximity to your shower. After that, set the shower to the hottest possible temperature. Turn the shower on and shut the bathroom door so the room is engulfed with steam. Turn the shower off after around five minutes, and let the clothes hang in the steam-filled room for about thirty minutes to an hour. Then, rinse the clothes completely with cold water. Wring the clothes out and rinse them again many times. Next, place the clothing into the washing machine. Add liquid laundry detergent and liquid fabric softener to the clothes. Set the washer to run as normal. Finally, place the clothes into the dryer. Add two dryer sheets and then let the dryer run as normal.

How to remove smoking smell from clothes? Well, it’s a difficult thing to do, quite a task, so the advisable thing to do is just stop smoking.

How many teens start smoking cigarettes each year and what are the long term effects? The number of teens who start smoking every day is around three thousand which the number of teens who start smoking each year a staggering 1,095,000! Lung cancer caused by smoking is now the leading female cancer killer, claiming twenty seven thousand more of women’s lives each year than breast cancer. More teenage girls, about thirty percent, are smoking now than they did ten years ago.

Experimental smoking usually starts the smoking habit. Next comes occasional cigarette smoking at social activities like parties, gathering with friends or when attempting to lose weight. This is the most harmful stage, since it usually leads to an addictive stage, when teens become common smokers. People who start smoking before they reach twenty one have the hardest time quitting the habit, and fewer than one in ten smokers who try to quit succeed.

There is no safe amount of smoking. Each cigarette causes some harm to the body. From the time smoke touches the lips, it begins to damage living tissues, and it continues its attack wherever it reaches. Cigarette smokers have less capability to carry oxygen throughout the body and this is why smokers have less endurance when performing strenuous activities like running or for teens, participating in sporting activities. Smokers also get wrinkles at an earlier age; so if you are a teen smoker, prepare for wrinkles at somewhat of a youthful age. The cigarette smoke alters the elasticity of the skin and fine lines develop and encircle the eyes and mouth. Your clothes and hair then smell of smoke and then, you will personally not be able to smell it, for one of the long term effects of smoking is loss of your sense of smell. Many people say that kissing a smoker is like kissing an ashtray, perhaps unbeknownst to them, so the love lives of teen smokers are bound to be scaled back.

Teen smokers also miss more days of school and resulting education than nonsmokers because they have more respiratory infections like colds, coughs, sore throats, along with sinus and ear problems. The infections stem from damage to the cilia in the lungs. Cilia are tiny parts of the lung that function as little brooms, sweeping out bacteria, viruses and dirt. When they cease to clean out the lungs, the germs and dirt remain and build up, causing more frequent and longer-lasting colds.

Many teens think that lung cancer is the only long term effect of smoking, many brush it off thinking that they would be able to quit way before it gets to that stage. However there are many other effects that occur much earlier in a smoker’s life such as COPD and emphysema. In fact many experts say that emphysema is “almost a certainty” in the average smoker. Other long term smoking effects include vision problems, gum disease, and even amputation of limbs due to the body’s inability to provide oxygen to those body parts.

This should serve as a wakeup call to all teen smokers out there. As you can see lung cancer is not the only thing to worry about when you decide to “light up.” The long term effects of smoking may be taking its toll sooner than you think.

How does smoking lead to tooth decay, gingivitis and periodontal disease? The habit of smoking leads to tooth decay and staining of the teeth stemming from the cigarette smoke containing the hundreds of carcinogens. Smoking also leads to gingivitis; gingivitis, the top dental complication for persons over eighteen, is the mildest form of gum disease. This early stage of gum disease comes about when bacteria develops between the gums (gingiva) and the base of the teeth they surround. If you ‘only’ have gingivitis, it could have been worse. Gingivitis operates as an initial warning sign that you could be well primed for severe dental health complications. Actually, gingivitis is the baby brother of Periodontitis (inflammation around the tooth). This more severe form of gum disease is usually followed by loss of teeth. Untreated, gingivitis leads to periodontitis. Gingivitis can bring minor blood loss; periodontitis can cause major tooth loss.

Evidence is building of potential connections between gingivitis and more severe health problems. Healthy immune systems usually fight off the bacteria building up in the mouth. When this protection is diminished to any extent, the additional bacteria in the bloodstream appear to elevate the risk of stroke or heart disease. Remember, the important thing is not what gingivitis is but what it brings on, and that is irreversible periodontitis and probable tooth loss. Smoking does not cause gingivitis, but it does set the stage for gingivitis to move in and take over your mouth and gums by creating an abnormal Ph imbalance. The acidic condition caused by smoking harms the naturally healthy Ph levels that usually protect gum tissues from gingivitis. If you smoke, you can help restore normal Ph by using baking soda based toothpaste, and mouthwashes to protect your gums. When you quit smoking, your mouth will naturally return to the correct Ph to protect you from gingivitis. Oral acidosis also speeds up enamel breakdown and tooth decay. Even if it is not caused by smoking, acidosis develops a friendly environment for gingivitis.

Many years ago, the American Academy of Periodontology published a study that concluded that smoking was the main risk factor for developing advanced or severe gum disease (periodontitis). The study found that fifty three percent of adults who had severe gum disease were either current or ex smokers. Smoking tends to dry out the oral tissues, reducing salivary flow. Saliva contains enzymes and electrolytes that help maintain proper pH. Nicotine is a vasoconstrictor. This restricts blood flow to the oral tissues causing a decrease in oxygen and vital nutrients needed by the tissues and cells. It has also been discovered that nicotine tends to up-regulate the inflammatory mediators that destroy periodontal attachment in gum disease. This means the body’s immune system tends to be over exuberant in its attempts to defend itself against bacterial infection. This results in more tissue destruction when compared to non-smokers. How does smoking lead to tooth decay, gingivitis and periodontal disease? Well, the evidence speaks for itself.

Why does smoking affect your sense of smell? The 1986 National Geographic Smell Survey concluded that, of the individuals polled, smokers rated the intensity of androstenone, cloves, and gas as weaker than those of persons that do not smoke, while banana and musk were viewed as stronger by smokers. However, smokers and nonsmokers did not differ in their picking up of the rose scent. In addition, smokers were less sure of their own ability to detect odors. Just as thought, the responses of smokers to the survey showed a diminished sensitivity to odor quality. Smokers thought the odors deemed as unpleasant by nonsmokers to be less offensive, and indicated a diminished appreciation of the pleasant odors, in addition. (Gilbert and Wysocki, 1987).

In a further study done at the University of Indiana, one hundred students were asked to use their noses to find their own shirts from a layout of shirts. Of the one hundred students, seventy four were able to accurately identify their own shirts by scent only. However, of the smoking participants that smoked more than ten cigarettes a day, nearly half could not accurately locate their own shirts. If you smoke cigarettes, your sense of smell may not be as good as it should be. Smokers have more trouble identifying odors than nonsmokers do, and about twice as many smokers as nonsmokers have a reduced sense of smell. Smoking affects the sense of smell in both young people and older ones.

The sense of smell is more significant than you may know. A lot of the flavor of food actually comes from its smell, rather than its taste. People who can’t smell well do not enjoy their food as much as other people do. The sense of smell is also important for safety. For example, people with an impaired sense of smell would be less able to detect the odor that is added to natural gas (the kind of gas used in gas stoves) to alert people to gas leaks.

So the bottom line is, smoking damages your sense of smell. This may not ‘seem’ so serious, but you need to just think about this for a minute. As stated previously, much of the flavor of food actually comes from its smell, rather than taste. Then there are the simple pleasures of life like smelling a rose, smelling fine wine and the likes; surely, these are things to be treasured and not just surrendered for a cigarette or two which can only offer a moment’s satisfaction.

Does smoking really speed up your metabolism and help you lose weight? Smoking is very dangerous to your body and as such is not a desirable habit to take up. However, there are limited advantages that come with the smoking habit. One such benefit is that smoking ‘can’ help you lose weight.
There are a variety of reasons why smoking helps you lose weight, as detailed below;

Smoking Damages Your Taste Buds; the more you smoke, the more damage you do to your taste buds. Over the course of time, the chemicals and tar in cigarettes coat the inside of your mouth and cover your taste buds, making them less and less functional. As your taste buds become progressively damaged, the food you consume becomes increasingly tasteless. For that reason, you do not enjoy the food as much as you would were you not a smoker and thus there is less desire to keep eating as normal. You begin eating until your hunger is satisfied and not for the fun of it, meaning you will eat less. As, you are eating less, the logical outcome is that you lose weight. But it is not worth damaging your taste buds just so that you eat a little less each day, considering you are harming yourself in the process.

In addition to that, nicotine is an appetite suppressant; studies conclude that nicotine operates as an appetite suppressant. For that reason, as you smoke more and more, the less hungry you feel and the less you will probably eat. It is however no secret that nicotine is a very harmful substance. Some reports suggest that there may be a connection between nicotine and kidney disease, that nicotine damages the inside of your arteries and that nicotine can elevate your chances of heart disease. To add to that, withdrawal from nicotine can cause irritability, headaches, poor concentration, insomnia, constipation and it can even increase your appetite. Therefore, while you may feel less hungry when you regularly use nicotine, you fast become dependent on this substance to suppress your appetite, all the while increasingly harming your body.

Furthermore, smoking increases your metabolic rate; smoking cigarettes causes your heart to beat more rapidly, meaning your body uses up extra energy and burns additional calories. For that reason, when you smoke, you will burn additional calories than when you do not smoke. Heavy smokers are thought to burn up to two hundred extra calories every day because of this. However, the additional pressure exerted on your heart by smoking does a lot more than just burn calories. It also elevates your risk of heart disease, which is one of the most typical causes behind smoking connected deaths. Hence, it is not really worth placing your heart in this much danger just to get a slight daily jolt in metabolism.

As previously detailed, smoking is a dangerous habit and hence is something that you ought to avoid. Nevertheless, one of the few advantages of smoking is that it helps in weight loss by increasing your metabolism and curbing your appetite. However, when you weigh this against the negatives, including harm to your lungs, arteries, veins and heart, bad breath, wrinkled skin and poor health, smoking is then seen as not such a desirable weight loss aid.

Cigarette smoking causes more deaths each year than suicides, murders, HIV, alcohol use, motor vehicle accidents, and illegal drug use combined. Many diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and respiratory diseases are caused by cigarette smoking, which harms almost every organ in the body. If this is not convincing evidence that health effects of smoking is generally harmful to one’s self, then I don’t know what is.

Of course we cannot discuss all of the health effects of cigarette smoking in this article since they are too much to mention, we will try to discuss, or at least list some of the most harmful and common ones.

To begin with, smokers generally have a difficult time when healing from surgeries and illnesses than do non-smokers. Because of the damage to the body’s host defenses, smoking is responsible for a lower survival rate after surgery compared to non-smokers, a delayed tissue healing and a slower immune response.
Cancer is said to be the second leading cause of death by smoking and among the first diseases casually linked to smoking. In the tobacco smoke, the tar present causes lung cancer to develop due to the damaging of a gene called p53.

A few of the major organs which cancers are often formed due to smoking are the larynx, pharynx, bladder, lung, cervix, esophagus, kidney stomach and pancreas. Although the risks of cancers vary widely among members of different ethnic groups, the risk of dying among men who smoke is twenty three times more likely, and thirteen times more likely among women who smoke. Secondhand smoke or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is the smoke given off by the smoker’s exhalations and the burning of the cigarette; and is responsible for about 3000 lung cancer deaths of non-smokers in the USA.

Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death in the USA, and is one of the many health effects of smoking. After smoking, the blood cells and blood vessel walls become sticky and allows dangerous fatty deposits to build up. Cigarette smoking causes the narrowing of the arteries, and hence reduced blood circulation. This is the main reason for the stress free feeling experienced by the smoker. However, this forcing of the blood vessels to constrict is one of the causes for heart complications experienced by the smoker such as cardiovascular disease.

Some other effects of cigarette smoking include chronic obstructive lung disease, infertility, low birth weight, low bone density, preterm delivery, periodontitis, peptic ulcers, stroke, bronchitis, pneumonia, osteoporosis, depression, and emphysema to name a few. Apart from the thousands of complications which smokers place themselves in, smoking cigarettes is known to relief stress, be encouraged in young social groups, and a past time activity.

The problem with cigarette smoking is that most people never like to admit that they are addicted. Many try to justify smoking by thinking of it as a stress reliever. However, the same process that leads to the “stress free feeling” a smoker experiences after firing up a smoke, is one of the most dangerous health effects of smoking in the first place.

Hopefully everyone reading this article will think about that the next time they feel the need to relieve some stress by smoking what many dub “a cancer stick.”

These little cigarettes can be real harmful, if not managed correctly. Smoking can cause serious damages to your lungs. Every time you inhale smoke it damages your lungs repairing system and traps chemical that causes cancer. The tiny hairs in your lungs called cilia are destroyed by smoking. These hairs help the lungs to prevent infections. There are thousands of these cilia in your lungs along with a layer of mucus which acts as a trap for dirt and other polluting foreign bodies. The cilia acts like a brush pushing the dirt out of your lungs which stimulates you to cough or spit the mucus out of your lungs.

It is a terrible thing when your lungs natural defenses are broken down. If your lungs are without the natural repairing system then your lungs are at risk for various infections. You become at risk for diseases such as chronic coughs, chest infections and lung cancer. Over time smoking can permanently damage your air sacs also known as alveoli making it extremely difficult to breathe. While the lung may feel the brunt of the effects of smoking, it also puts the rest of the body at risk. Smoking can increase the chances of a person having heart disease, cancer and stroke.

Who does smoking affect? While the first hand-smoker is at risk, it is believed that second hand smokers are at the same risk if not more. First hand smokers are smokers who inhale the cigarette smoke willingly, while the second hand smoke does not. Second hand smokers breathe in the smoke that the smoker exhales or comes from the tip of the cigarette. This is more severe in its damage than smoking itself.

Most of the damage caused by smoking is irreversible. So it is wise not to start smoking giving the risks it poses. However, if you are already a smoker and you are seeking ways to quit, there are many options out there for you. However, like most addictions, there aren’t any quick fixes but it will take your devotion and effort for you to actually stop smoking. But it would be a great investment if we take that step to curb this habit of smoking which takes so many lives each year.

We won’t only be doing ourselves a favor but also the unsuspecting second hand-smoker. In addition to the lungs, smoking also affects your gums and teeth. This can leave a very unattractive smell in your mouth. Your teeth are also stained and gums are blackened. You should take all this into consideration before you smoke.

Over the years lung cancer has developed into the number one killer of all the cancers among men and women. It has surpassed breast, colon and prostate cancer combined. The increase number of smokers is directly responsible for this increases in smoking. In fact 9 out of 10 people that possesses lung cancer are smokers making smoking the number one cause by far for lung cancer. Smokers however are not the only ones that are at high risk for lung cancer but also non smokers. Second hand smokers as they are called are at higher risks of getting lung cancer when they inhale the smoke from the cigarette or the smoke the smoker exhales.
They are any effects of lung cancer of which we will take a closer look in this article.

• Depression- Lung cancer patients can easily fall into a state of depression when confronted with an illness as such. In fact about 15% to 25% of lung cancer patients experience depression. They have negative thoughts of suicide and other form of bodily harms. They easily lose interest in activities and are pretty mellow and sad.
• Tiredness- Lung cancer patients usually complain of total exhaustion which is another major effect. The bones and joints also ache and the body is usually low in its metabolism.
• Anxiety- Patients of lung cancers find themselves being overly worried about stuff like payment or cost of treatments. They are also overly concerned about issues relating to their mortality and how it would affect their loved ones.

Treatments of lung cancer can also have serious side effects as well and they are:

• Diarrhea- Chemotherapy treatments can cause severe diarrhea which can leave you seriously dehydrated. This should be reported t a doctor if it lasts for more than 2 years and anti-dehydrating medications might be needed.
• Hair loss or thinning- Some drugs may cause hair loss. Not all may cause complete hair loss however. So you should report hair loss occurrences to your doctor so he can re-evaluate your medication.
• Chang in Taste- Some people taste in foods may change owing to the medication that they are on or they may lose their taste all in all.

The effects of lung cancer can be very severe but rehabilitation and treatment is available. All you need is a positive attitude and you’ll be able to get through!