Smoking Cigarettes > Some More Reasons For You To Stop Smoking
Do you smoke? And for whatever reason you are thinking about to stop smoking.
Below are some more reasons for you to make up your mind to stop smoking.
You will know what Nicotine is and how it affects your body functions and how long Nicotine stays in your body after you have stop smoking.
What is Nicotine?
Nicotine derived from a tobacco plant family called Solanaceae.
It is a naturally occurring organic compound called liquid alkaloid, made out of carbon,hydrogen and nitrogen.
These poisonous chemicals have deadly effects on your body.
Effects of Nicotine on the Body
Nicotine changes how your brain and body works.
After your have puffed a cigarette, the nicotine in the substance reaches your brain within 5-7 seconds.
The absorption of nicotine by your body is through your bloodstream.
Nicotine causes a rapid release of adrenaline, you will experience;
Rapid heartbeat
Increased blood pressure
Rapid, shallow breathing
Nicotine blocks the release of the hormone insulin making you hyperglycemic.
That means, you have more sugar in your blood because less insulin is produced to act upon the excess glucose from your blood.
Nicotine may also increase your basal metabolic rate.
You burned more calories than usually even when you are not doing anything.
In the long run, nicotine increases the level of your "bad" cholesterol called LDL.
LDL will damage your arteries and you are more likely to have a heart attack or a stroke.
How long does Nicotine stay in your body after you stop smoking?
20 minutes after you stop smoking your blood pressure will drop back to normal and your brain will become free of nicotine after 45 minutes.
In 8 hours, the carbon monoxide levels in your blood stream will drop to half and your oxygen levels will return to normal.
48 hours later, your chance of having a heart attack will be decreased.
And all nicotine will have left your body.
Your sense of taste and smell will return to a normal.
After 72 hours your bronchial tubes will relaxed, and your energy levels will increased.
In 2 weeks your circulation will increase, and it will continue to improve for the next 10 weeks.
Coughing, wheezing and breathing problems will dissipate as your lung capacity improves by 10% by third to ninth months.
Your risk of a heart attack will dropped by half in the first year you stop smoking and 5 years later your risk of having a stroke returns to that of a non-smoker.
And 10 years on, your risk of lung cancer will also returned to that of a non-smoker.
Not until the 15th year will your risk of heart attack be wipe out totally.
Now you know how Nicotine from smoking affects your health and the time taken to remove Nicotine from your body.
Take the right step and stop smoking.
By not smoking, not only benefits you but your family, friends and the people around you.
Posted by: Mo Salle
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Hemorrhoid > Bleeding Anus: Piles or Fissures
Piles are enlarged and dilated blood vessels/veins around the end passage of your anus ring also known as haemorrhoids.
Generally piles are a condition where the veins in the anal region get swollen and start to bleed.
Do not confused piles with fissures, when you discover that your stool has traces of blood or your anal bleeds you may think that you have piles.
Actually anal bleeding could be due to fissures which is a temporary injury or cuts to the anal passage caused by hard stools.
Types of Piles
There are two types of piles, internal and external.
Internal
Internal piles occur inside your anus and causes bleeding.
External
External piles can be seen and felt on the outside ring of your anus. They are painful but you do not bleed as much.
The most common type of piles are intro-external types that combined internal and external piles.
Symptoms of Piles
Constipation
The pressure you exerted when relieving yourself during constipation affects your bowels and the surrounding veins.
Bleeding
Earliest symptom of piles is often the fresh red blood on your stool when you relieved yourself as frictions and pressure is asserted on the bowels as it opened.
Bleeding from the anus is more common with internal than external haemorrhoids.
It can occur before, during or after defecation.
You will feel incomplete even after relieving yourself because of the piles protrusion.
Discomfort and pain
Other symptoms may include rectal or anal swelling, discomfort and pain. You may also have anal skin tags and fissures.
Stages of Piles
Your piles develop in different stages,
First-grade piles
Develop inside your rectum or anal canal.
Second-grade piles
Protrude from your anus when your bowels opened, but return inwards afterwards.
Third-grade piles
Similar to second grade piles but return inside when pushed back physically.
Fourth-grade piles
Your piles hang permanently outside your anus.
Most piles infections are of the second- and third-grade variety.
Causes of Piles
Your piles takes time to develop and the most common causes of piles are inconsistent poor diet and sedentary lifestyle habits.
Diet
Hydro carbonated drinks, colas and junk foods affects your bowel movement.
Eat fibrous food such as vegetables and fruits.
Exercise
Long working hours, long hours of sitting and lack of exercise or physical activity.
Start an exercise regime for at least 30 minutes, 3 times a week.
Check with your doctor before you start.
Stress
Bowel movement is related to your mental well-being.
Stress can have an adverse effect on your regular bowel movement.
Learn to manage your stress.
Wrong bowel habits
Do not strained yourself when passing stools.
Relief yourself when you feel the urged, do not forced and do not postponed or stopped before fully completing the process.
Pile Treatments and Controls
The best way you can prevent piles is to avoid constipation.
By having regular bowel movements, your stools pass easily without pressurizing the blood vessels ring circling your anal area.
Soft stools pass easily, thus decreasing pressure and strain.
Empty your bowels when the urge occurs.
Diet control
Piles can be prevented by diet control.
Increased your fibre intake will reduce constipation thus preventing straining when relieving yourself.
Eat plenty of fibre rich foods such as vegetables and fruits.
Fibre diets produce stools that are soft, making it easier to pass.
Take fruits, instead of fruits juice as fruits contain high fibre.
Drink plenty of water, it make your bowel stool soft.
Avoid hot and spicy food and coffee.
Exercise
Exercise for at least 30 minutes a day or at least 30 minutes, 3 times a week.
As the saying goes “Prevention is better than cure”.
So, it is best to take preventive measures by improving on your own diet and lifestyle to prevent Piles.
Posted by: Mo Salle
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Smoking Cigarettes > Dangers of Smoking Cigarettes
Cigarette smoke contains more than 4000 harmful chemicals. 400 are known to be poisonous and more than 50 that causes cancer.
Below are nine of the most widely known poisonous chemicals present in cigarette,
1. Nicotine
Nicotine is an addictive drug. It is added to create addiction to the smokers.
It acts as a stimulant that increases your heart rate and blood pressure causing you a host of circulatory problems.
2. Carbon Monoxide
Carbon Monoxide is a poisonous gas a car releases from its exhaust.
Carbon monoxide causes respiratory and breathing problems.
Carbon monoxide replaced decreasing oxygen in your red blood cells as well as lessens the oxygen circulating in your blood stream.
You will suffer shortness of breath and tire easily.
3. Tar
Tar is a toxic, cancer causing chemicals, a mixture of dangerous chemicals, black and sticky residue used in making road surfaces.
Tar forms thick black coating that clog up your lungs, increases your risk of developing lung cancer.
Other harmful chemicals found in cigarettes smoke
4. Arsenic
Arsenic is a cancer causing chemicals used in wood preservatives and rat poison.
Arsenic finds its way into cigarette smoke through the pesticides that are used in tobacco farming.
Arsenic is one of the most dangerous chemicals in cigarettes. It causes cancer and damages blood vessel in your heart.
It will reduce your body ability to repair DNA.
5. Ammonia
Ammonia is a poisonous gas. It gives out a strong and irritating smell.
Ammonia kills cilia (tiny hairs lining the airways that help to clear toxins) when it changes nicotine into a gas, easily absorbed into your lungs, airways and bloodstream.
It also enhances the addictive power of nicotine.
6. Benzene
Benzene is a cancer causing chemicals refined from crude oil used in an industrial solvent and gasoline including petrol.
It is well known that benzene causes cancer in particular leukaemia.
The high level of benzene from tobacco smoke accounts for a big proportion of our exposure to this poison.
7. Cadmium
Cadmium is a cancer causing chemicals/ metals found in car batteries.
Most of cadmium in our bodies comes from exposure to tobacco smoke.
It is known to damage your kidneys and the linings of your arteries.
Large amount of cadmium overwhelm the proteins in our body, prevent it from removing harmful chemicals like cadmium and preventing our cells from repairing damaged DNA.
8. Formaldehyde
Formaldehyde is a smelly cancer causing chemicals used in mortuaries for embalmment of dead bodies and manufacturing of paint.
Formaldehyde is known for causing cancer, gastrointestinal, respiratory and skin problems.
It is responsible for causing irritation to the nose, throat and eyes experienced by smokers when breathing in cigarette smoke.
9. Hydrogen Cyanide
Hydrogen cyanide is a poisonous gas used as an industrial pesticide.
Among all chemicals in cigarette smoke Hydrogen cyanide does the most damage to your heart and blood vessels.
Hydrogen cyanide does not cause cancer but it damages your cilia (tiny hairs lining the airways that help to clear toxins) allowing other dangerous chemicals to be stuck in the lungs and airways.
The chemicals in cigarettes are a closely held trade secret.
In 1994, US Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) found that American tobacco companies added 599 additives to tobacco during the production process.
Additives such as potassium nitrate acts as an oxidizer to keep the cigarette burning when not being drawn on and ammonia to enhance the addictive quality of nicotine at the same time its speed up delivery to your brain.
A tobacco industry saying:
“An addicted customer is a customer for life, no matter how short that life is"
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