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Smoking: Threat for Asthma
31 Jan. 2007
In the whole world, every day more than 3000 young people become regular smokers. Estimated 30% of middle school children and over 63% of high school students had tried smoking. According to a report, Smoking is an instantaneously addictive. People, who have smoked 100 cigarettes or more, are generally not able to quit even if they want to.
Why are you smoking?
Most of the time Psychological factors play a main role in people's susceptibility to smoking are depression, hypertension, low self-esteem problems have a higher risk for smoking. Cigarette Smoking cut smoker’s life expectancy by 15-25 years. Smoking kills nearly about 470,000 people a year.
Smoke, whether it’s a cigarette, cigar and pipes harms human body in many ways. Research has shown that the connection between tobacco smoke and asthma is a complex one. The airways in a person with asthma are very sensitive and can reacts many things, or "triggers." Coming into contact with these triggers often produces asthma symptoms. Restlessness, insomnia, tightness in chest, shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing, and phlegm are the common symptoms associated with asthma. Smokers may shock at how strongly these symptoms resemble the feelings they experience. Tobacco smoke is a powerful asthma trigger.
If you smoke, stop for yourself and for your family. If you know someone who smokes, help them out to understand the hazards of smoking and support them to quit. Quitting is not easy. Ask your doctor to help you find the method/medicine that is best for you.
Chantix recently approved by the Food and drug Investigation, is the first anti-smoking pill approved by the Food and Drug Administration in nearly a decade. It is only available in the market with prescription of doctor. Chantix pill has been proved the most popular in the market as compared to any other smoking pill. |
