Unsubscribe from habit that kills the horse, either permanently or at least one day called today the World Health Organization. International Non-Smoking Day is held annually on the third Thursday of November, more than 90 countries worldwide, including in Russia.
Portrait of a smoker
The first Europeans who met with tobacco, were the Spanish sailors, who arrived in 1492 with the expedition of Christopher Columbus to the shores of the continent, later called America. By the way, after one of the companions of Columbus on behalf of Jerez Rodrigo paid for his fondness for snuff: returned to Spain, he horrified his neighbors, the smoke from his mouth and nose. Court of the Holy Inquisition had decided that the soul Jerez mastered the devil, and the sailor was sentenced to seven years in the galleys.
Now smokers are all over the world. In Russia smokes every second - of which 65% of men and 30% of women. This habit is more than three million adolescents: 2,5 million youths and 0.5 million girls. Smokers, even doctors, who more than anyone else knows about the dangers of addiction to tobacco, and pregnant women (39%).
By the way, the study found a year ago, held in Australia, people with mental disorders smoke more healthy people. Psychoanalysts explain this by saying that smoking is associated with stimulation of the oral (mouth) area from which the child receives the very first pleasures in life: while he was sucking milk saturates and gets a sense of security.
From these positions smoking - is a sign of anxiety, desire to hide, to avoid stress. That is why smoking is more common among the mentally ill than the mentally healthy.
Smoking for a smoke?
Answers to the question of why people smoke with a healthy psyche, different. Some believe that the past smoking was "cool", and now - "stylish". Someone believes that to blame the media. Others smoke because "all smoke" from "desire to imitate, or because it" helps to communicate. " And someone has just "extra time" for cigarettes.
As shown by one of the polls at RIA Novosti, often forcing smokers to pick up a cigarette just a habit. The second most popular response - getting pleasure from cigarettes. Also the Russians into the smoking relieve stress or just a "smoke" for the company. Some cigarette helps to concentrate.
It is noteworthy that some voters smokers smoke in order to eat less. Probably more so meet women who, by the way, including fear of gaining weight, quit smoking harder than men. By the way, in the early XX century, pregnant women, not to gain weight, the doctors advised to quit.
On the drop of nicotine
But now everything has changed and doctors, by contrast, encourage smokers as soon as possible to give up the habit. According to WHO, in the world every 6 seconds one person dies from diseases related to tobacco smoking. Every year, for this reason that kill nearly 5 million smokers. In Russia, from diseases related to tobacco, die each year 350 thousand people.
According to WHO, in the world 90% of deaths from lung cancer, 75% - from chronic bronchitis and 25% - from coronary heart disease attributable to smoking. Fans of tobacco are 13 times more likely to suffer angina, and 10 times more stomach ulcers than non-smokers.
No less dangerous and passive smoking, it adversely affects the respiratory system. In addition, tobacco smoke - the strongest allergen. A passive smoker inhales the same hazardous substances as a lover of cigarettes, despite their low concentration.
Own peril
Despite the fact that the world has up to 120 treatments for tobacco dependence and to help smokers to come all the new technologies (such as e-cigarettes) are practically used only about 40 ways.
But the most effective of them, in the opinion of site visitors RIA Novosti - is merely "pull themselves together and do not smoke." Those who might not have enough to do so by force of will, the Russians offered to go on a desert island, without taking with him any cigarettes.
Also the Russians consider effective methods to combat nicotine addiction daily reducing the number of smoked cigarettes, reading the book "The easiest way to quit smoking." Someone thinks that if "spaced all the way", the desire to smoke immediately disappear. Others offer professional assistance (encode) or special equipment (nicotine patches or special medication).
Among the many tips on how to get rid of the habit, there is this: every day to throw out the precise amount that is spent on tobacco. By the way, if a person smokes a pack of cigarettes a day costs 40 rubles, a year habit cost him 14 600 rubles. This amount can buy 145 kg of meat dumplings, chocolate or 490, or 1,460 rolls of toilet paper, or an LCD TV, or 2-3 winter stroller for children.
If the family smoked two men, then the resulting number is doubled. Accordingly, smokers spouse for the year could be without appreciable loss buy one coat, or 46 g of gold, or a good laptop, or a normal horse.
For 10 years the wife, did not deny himself addictions, denying themselves buying a new domestic vehicles, or second-hand foreign cars, or two square meters of housing in Moscow.
