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Asthma is an inflammatory disease of the airways that affects breathing, causing sufferers to suffer severe coughing, chest tightness, sibyls and a number of symptoms that make it difficult for them to inhale the air normally. Therefore, possible complications and to slow to a flare, it is important to follow a rigorous treatment.

Increase public awareness that asthma can be very dangerous if not treated properly, is what the organizers have been proposed for the Second Week of Asthma. Under the motto “Breathing is life ‘, they want to see a person with asthma may develop a normal life provided that care.

More and more cases

the popular belief that asthma is a disease only makes many adult children do not follow appropriate treatment. However, this condition is chronic, so it is important to continue the medication for life, to a condition estimated to affect more than 5% of the adult Spanish population.

In addition, specialists are seeing more and more people suffering from this disease go to their queries. This is due to environmental changes. Following this, in July Ancochea, president of the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR), states that “the most polluted air we breathe, coupled with the lifestyle of the big cities and smoking” are the main reasons for those affected by asthma are increasing in number.

The Institute of Obesity warning of the risk of overweight appears to leave the habit of snuff as a result of restrictions on law reform and notes that various studies put between two and four kilos that usually wins a person to stop smoking .

A bad habit is replaced by another drifting in obesity and sobrepesoSegún difficulties to experts, this increase, which occurs during the physical phase of dependence that covers the first four months, is due to an eating disorder in the anxiety caused by derived from the absence of snuff.

A bad habit to another

The problem arises when, once overcome the physical phase of addition, maintaining the progressive increase in weight caused by poor nutrition. Thus, a bad habit, such as snuff, is replaced by another drifting in obesity and overweight problems.

To prevent this risk, the Institute of Obesity recommends eating habits take special care, making available to those interested a team of professionals to work as much food as necessary as proper physical and psychological therapy.

Multidisciplinary treatment

Not surprisingly, explain its officers, any treatment should be designed for a multidisciplinary, nutritional and psychological criteria intervening. In this way, ensure that there is greater adherence to therapy and maintenance of lost weight.

By contrast, opt for a balanced diet that contains all the nutrients needed to achieve optimal nutritional status. To do this, suggest a number of nutrients provide energy sufficient to carry out metabolic processes and physical and psychological work.

In the British Medical Journal published research that revealed that passive smoking increases the risk of breast cancer. An analysis of data from nearly 80,000 women shows that snuff smoke exposure at work or at home for many years increases the chances of developing this tumor.

According to Argentina’s medical issue, researchers at West Virginia University, USA, say that women who do not smoke but are exposed to smoke from other people snuff are more likely to develop breast cancer, as published by the British Medical Journal.

Apparently, the investigation involved nearly 80,000 women and, according to its authors, the incidence of these tumors was 32% higher in those decades had been as passive smokers, a finding to be confirmed by further studies.

The relationship between passive smoking and breast cancer has always been a contentious issue because, while some studies like this were a relationship, there were others who refused because it was difficult to quantify the minimum exposure time which involved a risk.
In this study, women participants were between 50 and 79 years and, during the 10-year-long follow-up investigation, there were 3,250 cases of invasive breast cancer.

When women were asked about their smoking history and exposure to smoke snuff, it was observed that smokers had a 16% increased risk of developing breast cancer after menopause. For former smokers, the risk was 9% and remained for 20 years after quitting, being highest in those who had smoked for over 50 years.

What is surprising as highlighted by the authors of the study, women who had never smoked but lived with smokers or had worked for several years seemed to have a higher risk of breast cancer.

Thus, “after more than 10 years of exposure to snuff in childhood or as adults, after more than 10 years of passive smoking at work or at home 20, the risk increased by 32%.”

According to Dr. Rachel Greig, from Breakthrough Breast Cancer, the study suggests that “as soon as starting to smoke and the longer it takes to do so, the higher your chance of developing breast cancer.”

“We know that smoking has many health risks and is a major cause of lung cancer and heart disease, and encourage all women who do not smoke,” he concluded.

3. Learn new skills and behaviors

Try to entertain yourself with something else when you want to smoke. Talk to someone, take a walk or get busy with a task.

At first when I quit, change your routine. Use a different route to work. Drink tea instead of coffee. Breakfast in a different place.

Do something to reduce your stress. Take a hot bath, exercise or read a book. Plan to do something you enjoy every day.

Drink plenty of water and other liquids.

4. Be prepared for relapse or difficult situations

Most relapses occur within the first three months after quitting. Do not be discouraged if you start smoking again. Remember, most people try several times to quit before succeeding. Read the rest of this entry »

Classification of Smoking

- Smokers Mild is the one that consumes less than 5 cigarettes per day on average. You have up to 15 times more likely to develop lung cancer than nonsmoking population.

- Moderate smoker: smoking is between 6 and 15 cigarettes per day average. Increases up to 40 times the odds of lung cancer.

- Severe smoker: smokes over 16 cigarettes per day on average. Increases up to 60 times the likelihood of lung cancer.

Steps to quitting

While willpower is helpful when making the decision to stop smoking, studies have shown that the following steps will serve to kick the habit for good. He has more chance to do if you use them together:

1. Prepare

* Set a date to quit smoking. Read the rest of this entry »

There are many good reasons to quit smoking. The most important is that this is an addiction that harms the health of both the smoker and those around him.

On the subject, the World Health Organization says that about five million people die worldwide from diseases caused by this addiction.

This figure is a reason enough if we think that we look after our health and for it to acquire good habits.

Moreover, experts say that smoking is a “drug”, since the consumption of nicotine (snuff component) produces dependence, withdrawal and compulsive behavior, among others.

Main effects of smoking on health

1 .- Cancer: The snuff is responsible for 90% of deaths due to lung cancer, and 30-40% of overall cancer deaths (lung, bladder, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, etc.

2 .- Cardiovascular Disease.

3 .- Respiratory diseases: snuff consumption predisposes to infections, pneumonia, emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

4 .- Problems in pregnancy: Women who smoke are at increased risk of abortions, neonatal deaths and that their children are born underweight.