Smoking

Smoking is an unhealthy behavior that can become an addiction. Smoking is the most important preventable cause of premature death in the United States, according to the American Heart Association. Smoking includes all forms of smoking, such as cigar smoking, cigarette smoking, pipe smoking, and exposure to secondhand smoke. All forms of smoking are harmful, and there is no form of safe or safer smoking. For example, smoking mentholated, natural.

Symptoms of smokers 

Symptoms of smoking and smoking-related diseases

Symptoms of smoking and related diseases, disorders, and conditions include:

• Bad breath and yellowing of the teeth
• Cold hands and feet
• Frequent or recurrent lung infections and other diseases, such as influenza, common

colds, bronchitis, and pneumonia

• Hypertension (high blood pressure) and rapid heart rate
• Loss of taste and smell
• Low oxygen levels in the blood
• Low tolerance for exercise and fatigue
• Nicotine-stained fingers and teeth
• Premature aging and wrinkling of the skin
• Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing
• Smoker’s cough (an ongoing loose cough that produces phlegm) and hoarse voice
• Smoky-smelling clothes and hair

Risk Factors

• Peer pressure
• ○ Teenage time is very  important because the environment pushes teenagers
• toward smoking. Friends and classmates encourage smoking.
• History Of Family Smokers
• ○ Someone in a family like a patient or sibling, who has an open smoking habit
• increases the influence for smoking. This early exposure to smoking will
• increase childhood smoking
• Cheap Tobacco
• ○ Easy excess to tobacco (cigarettes) because they are cheap and available as
• there is no law to prevent or stop buying cigarettes to early teenagers.
• Stress
• ○ Nicotine distresses emotions so some people start smoking and they feel
• relieved and satisfied.

Effect Of Smoking On health

Continuous smoking for a long time has fatal effects on our body like lung cancer,

hypertension ( HTN or High blood pressure ), Coronary artery disease, frequent lung

infection, bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD ) and mainly cause heart

problems. Some studies show if a person having an intense smoking habit can be the cause of

type 2 diabetes. These bad lifestyles only cause problems for smokers and their family

children are at high risk of health problems just because of someone smoking around them.

Treatment of Smokers;

Quitting smoking is a very challenging undertaking that often requires several attempts

before you can successfully and permanently quit. If one method doesn’t work, try

another—the important thing is to just keep trying! Different people choose different

strategies to quit. Nicotine replacement therapy is one option that helps to minimize the

nicotine cravings associated with nicotine withdrawal. Nicotine replacement therapy, when

used as directed, is generally considered safe, and is safer than the nicotine in cigarettes. This

is because nicotine replacement products contain lower amounts of nicotine than cigarettes

and do not expose the smoker to the tar and toxic gasses contained in cigarette smoke.