Every smoker with experience at least once in his life thought about whether to quit this bad habit. But far from everyone who has decided to "strike up" relationships with cigarettes and turn onto the road to health lacks character and endurance.
When Celebrating International Quit Day
From year to year, the problems associated with smoking are gaining momentum. For those who are accustomed to postpone all good undertakings “on Monday”, International Quit Smoking Day may be a good reason to quit smoking. Back in 1977 in America, the International Cancer Society, together with the World Health Organization, initiated the establishment of this holiday. Support Day for everyone who wanted to change their lives was scheduled for the third Thursday of November. The Tobacco Control Convention, adopted in 2003 by the World Health Organization, was called upon to draw additional attention to the negative consequences of the acquired habit. It was supported by more than 90 countries of the world, including Russia.
Who are the heavy smokers?
It should be noted with great regret that, despite the growing anti-propaganda, the establishment of World Smoking Cessation Day, a cigarette fits into the life of modern society. For many, a cigarette drag out in the morning is a natural ritual, such as drinking a cup of coffee or making a toast. Statistics show that most people (about 90%) try to smoke in their youth. Just think - the average age of a novice smoker in our country is 11 years. In the seventh or eighth grade, about 8-12% of students regularly smoke, and already in the ninth or tenth percent the percentage rises to 21-24. Scientists say that mostly young people who smoked before the age of 18, in the future can not get rid of this harmful
habits until the end of their days. Young people are trying to find themselves, their image, often imitating the behavior of idols. Very often, unfortunately, the characters of feature films with a cigarette in their teeth become their heroes. Maturity makes you not only look for answers to many vital questions, but also think about your health. In middle age, when the day of smoking cessation for many could become an occasion to change oneself, since a person is aware of all the harmful effects of tobacco, for many years an ingrained habit does not always allow a person to dominate himself. The closer to old age, the more difficult it becomes to overcome oneself.
Disappointing statistics
Tobacco smoke negatively affects almost all organs, exacerbates and causes
a whole bunch of diseases. 45% of all deaths are directly or indirectly linked to smoking. 4.9 million people in the world die every year from diseases caused by smoking. The likelihood of
death from lung cancer is 20 times higher among heavy smokers, unlike those who do not breathe cigarette smoke. Lovers of tobacco drag on angina pectoris suffer 13 times more often, and stomach ulcers - 10 times. Scientists directly associate chronic lung disease with tobacco inhalation. In Russia, smoking is gaining disastrous proportions. In the country, 77% of all men smoke, about 30% of women and almost 40% of adolescents. Doctors of the whole world urge at least once a year - on Quit Smoking Day - to try to get rid of deadly attachment.
Why it is hard to quit smoking
Dependence on tobacco takes a leading place along with drug addiction and alcoholism among the most common deadly habits of mankind. Almost all smokers believe that they can quit cigarettes at any time,
but many fail to overcome the nicotine addiction. It would seem that there is a desire, and a good reason - the event "Quit Smoking Day", and the support of loved ones, but the person who quits smoking faces enormous difficulties. This is irritability, nervousness, insomnia, increased appetite, gaining extra pounds, slowing down the heart rate. Typically, such manifestations peak one to two weeks after the cessation of tobacco intake in the body and are explained by the fact that both types of nicotine addiction - psychological and physical - are closely intertwined and simultaneously affect the body. This puts the former smoker in a stressful state.
Some tips for quitting smoking
But there is good news. The unpleasant conditions of the body of a person who has quit smoking can be stopped, and the willpower strengthened with a few simple techniques. The need for body tobacco with a gradual dose reduction and weaning from it at the physical level can be satisfied by modern nicotine substitutes - plasters, tablets, etc. The following tips help to overcome psychological dependence. Set a clear date — the day you quit smoking — and get ready to replace the bad habit of holding a cigarette in your teeth with
another action, for example, buy yourself bags of seeds or
chewing gum in advance
. Try to replace the pleasant sensations of inhaling cigarettes with other pleasant moments - when you really want to smoke, they recommend having sex. In addition, former smokers advise a proven method - if at this stage it is not at all possible to abruptly set aside cigarettes - on the first day, remove the cigarette from the pack and discard it. Every day the number of cigarettes removed must be increased by one. Also, an electronic cigarette helped many people quit smoking - this is for those who cannot wean themselves from letting out smoke from their mouths. And in no case do not reproach yourself if your day for quitting smoking somehow went wrong and you broke loose. Very few managed to quit smoking the first time.
Life without a cigarette
Those who abandoned cigarettes will soon feel the favorable changes that are occurring in their body. More than once, everyone will thank themselves and applaud while standing for the fact that once he came up with a great idea - to spend a day giving up smoking. Already at the end of the second day after giving up the bad habit, the body begins to remove carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, the tone of the blood vessels returns to normal, and it becomes literally easier for a person to breathe. After a week, the sense of smell improves and taste intensifies. After a couple of weeks, a healthy complexion returns, the smell from the mouth disappears, as well as the specific smell of skin and hair. A person becomes energetic, endurance increases significantly. In addition, concentration and memory improve.
World Anti-Smoking Methods
The struggle for human health is happening all over the world. The World Health Organization widely supports World Smoking Cessation Day. The month of November in many countries is the starting point in the “health marathon” of events aimed at supporting everyone who wants to quit smoking. In 140 countries around the world have adopted a number of laws restricting the use of nicotine. In America, some firms have closed the recruitment for smokers, a ban on the production of particularly strong cigarettes, as well as cigarettes without a filter. And in Singapore, for example, there are "non-smoking" neighborhoods. Nevertheless, the main anti-smoking measures have been and remain the increase in cigarette prices and the promotion of a healthy lifestyle.