People have been smoking for centuries in a row. But few people know how cigarettes got into our country.
The history of smoking in our country
On the territory of Russia, this addiction appeared under Ivan the Terrible, to whom the Cuban ambassadors gave several cigars. Before this momentous event, the royal nobles simply smoked tea and found pleasure in it.
Cigarettes became more widespread under Peter the Great, who, as you know, liked to instill Western habits everywhere.
At first, only senior officials could afford cigars, but over time, the peasants were able to try the effects of nicotine on themselves.
It has long been proven that cigarettes bring a deceptive feeling of vigor and comfort, and there is a lot of harm from them. The impact on the human body of nicotine is great, let's talk about this.
Why do people smoke
Each experienced smoker once smoked his first cigarette. The first time it causes coughing, nausea, dizziness. The body is struggling to protest. If a person breaks himself, then the nicotine in the blood spreads and is addictive. Like any other drug, cigarettes cause uplift, euphoria, and improvement in brain activity. But all this does not have a long-lasting effect, over time it is discovered that the pressure rises, the heart pounds from the slightest exertion, shortness of breath and coughing appear at night.
Nicotine with blood spreads to all nerve endings, knocking down or changing the functioning of the nervous system and internal organs. Hence this euphoria in its use, and on the other hand, an increase in blood pressure.
Nicotine harm to the body
Many people think that nicotine is not particularly harmful, and the smoke produced by smoking is more dangerous. This is also true: when inhaled, soot and smog settles in the lungs, but it is nicotine that makes a person smoke a lot of cigarettes again and again, causing great addiction. If the entire dose of this drug contained in one cigarette is injected into a person’s vein at once, then instant death will occur. It only saves that nicotine in the lungs is absorbed in small doses, gradually poisoning and slagging the body.
Smoking women and girls more often than others suffer from infertility, uterine bleeding, they often pregnancy ends in miscarriages.
The main signs of nicotine poisoning
Even the most heavy smokers sometimes suffer suffering from smoking. Nicotine can cause poisoning of the body. This occurs as a result of its overdose, which occurs if a person consumes more than 5 packs of cigarettes per day.
The main symptoms of an overdose:
- severe dizziness, loss of orientation in space;
- vomiting
- jumps in blood pressure, loss of consciousness;
- cramps
- disturbance or respiratory arrest.
All of these symptoms can be fatal. Therefore, do not bring yourself to an extreme degree of nicotine addiction. And, most importantly, you need to see a doctor on time.
Why you can not smoke pregnant and lactating
Smoking pregnant woman causes at least disgust. Poisoning herself, she does not think about what poisons the baby. Nicotine penetrates perfectly through the placenta, causing irreparable harm to the health of the crumbs. It slows down its growth and development of internal organs, affects the lungs and central nervous system.
After birth, such a baby has a very high risk of developing allergic reactions, intestinal colic, sudden infant death syndrome manifests itself much more often than in children whose mothers had a healthy lifestyle.
There is also a myth that pregnant women should not abruptly quit smoking, it is believed that this is harmful to the child. This, of course, is not true. To give birth to a healthy baby, it is better to get rid of this habit before conception. A nicotine test will show how clean your body is.
Why quit smoking and other people
The effect on the human body of nicotine is known to everyone. But only in the 20th century began an active fight against tobacco smoking. Over the past century alone, more than 100 million people have died from this habit.
Numerous animal experiments have shown that the more developed the nervous system, the stronger the harmful effects of nicotine. Needless to say, a person is practically at the head of this chain.
Moreover, studies suggest that active smoking takes an average person about 10 years of life. Maybe it's worth finding a better use for these years?
Quitting smoking is saving money! Smoking is an expensive pleasure, in addition, according to the law of the Russian Federation, there are a number of public places where this is prohibited, and there will be a fine for illegal smoking. Saved money is best spent on a week of rest abroad.
A smoker is a source of danger for members of his family. People who do not voluntarily inhale smoke are called passive smokers. Moreover, the harm from this is often even higher than with direct use.
Nicotine addiction treatment
There are many treatments for this addiction. A huge number of copyrighted techniques, coding, tablets and other traditional or alternative medicine makes any person confused. Before taking a method to help, a nicotine-dependent person needs to tune in, decide that his life will be much better after smoking his last cigarette.
We will not analyze the author’s methods in detail; their action has no scientific evidence and is accepted only on faith.
Various nicotine patches, injections and tablets that facilitate the transition to a healthy lifestyle, chewing gums and much more have scientific justification and are often prescribed by a narcologist to alleviate the general condition.
Everyone who quits smoking, of course, cares about the question: “How much nicotine comes out?”. This question can be answered unequivocally: nicotine comes out gradually, already an hour after the last puff blood pressure normalizes, a week later taste buds increase , and a smoker's cough passes a month later .
After a year of healthy living, the risk of strokes and heart attacks, cancer and much more is halved.
How to quit smoking
Few smokers consider themselves addicted. The most common excuse: "I can quit, but I don't want to yet." And when such a person still decides to give up cigarettes, he usually first of all turns to traditional medicine, which offers a great many recipes, for help. Here are a couple of effective recipes.
- Take tobacco for cigarette rolls, soak it in milk and roll back. The taste and smell of such a roll is just disgusting.
- With every attack of desire to smoke, rinse your mouth with a decoction of the coil. After such a procedure, it disappears for a long time.
- A decoction of oats also discourages the consumption of cigarettes. Pour 1 cup of oats with 1 liter of water and simmer for an hour over low heat. Take 1 glass every 3 hours. In a couple of days it will be possible to calmly reduce the amount of nicotine consumed.
The effect on the human body of nicotine is such that it will fiercely resist, trying to regain the usual dose. The main thing is that all relatives and friends support the quitters.
Traditional healers recommend replacing cigarettes with something else. For example, to eat peanuts, seeds, peas at such moments, and your hands will be busy, and these products will reduce cravings.
Some time after quitting smoking, you can conduct a test for nicotine, which will show how much it got out of the body. The lower its concentration in the blood, the easier the general condition of a person will be.
The negative effects of smoking cessation on health
It must be understood that if a person smoked for many years 2-3 packs a day, then smoking cessation can not pass unnoticed. The body eventually adapted to the "poison." Therefore, do not be scared if after quitting smoking in the first week there will be insomnia or, conversely, increased drowsiness.
As a result of “breaking”, a headache or toothache may occur. Nicotine acts on the vessels and with its deficiency, painful cramps can occur.
In addition, bowel problems may occur: constipation or diarrhea. It is worth saying that all this is short-lived. After a maximum of a week, the body will be able to return to normal functioning. You just have to be patient.
A person’s nervous state will also be at the limit: depression, irritability, decreased concentration of attention. All this is explained by the fact that nicotine has been acting on the brain for a long time, and now it needs to somehow do without the usual doping.
Many people, on the contrary, in the first hours after smoking end in themselves a lift of energy, a surge of energy.
Any condition of a person will depend on many factors: age, smoking experience and just the individual characteristics of the body.
Positive effects of smoking cessation on the body
If a person has passed all the negative tests and managed to get rid of this habit, then the consequences will be extremely positive. This can be felt a week after the last puff.
Women will notice that their complexion has improved, its earthy hue has disappeared, and bad breath has disappeared. In men, in addition, potency will improve and the overall level of vitality will increase.
Food will gain much more flavor due to the restoration of taste buds.
The harm of nicotine can be described for a long time, but after its cancellation, there will be much more benefit.
What do doctors offer
Doctors distinguish two types of nicotine addiction - physical and mental.
Mental dependence is caused by the fact that nicotine accumulates in the organs of the central nervous system, causing a loss of control over oneself, as well as severe addiction, comparable only to heroin addiction.
The physical dependence is such that a couple of days after the start of smoking, nicotine becomes part of the metabolic processes of the body. The existence of the organism itself can no longer occur without nicotine.
Based on all these features, if independent attempts to quit smoking were unsuccessful, you should consult a doctor.
Since 2012, Russian clinics have opened rooms for smoking cessation help. The medical staff of each patient who has applied will carefully examine and draw up an individual plan to give up this addiction.
Doctors recommend that people suffering from various chronic diseases take their health seriously and stop smoking with the help of modern medicine.
Modern cigarettes went through a long evolution, first they used tobacco for cigarettes, then cigars, and finally cigarettes with all kinds of filters. However, whatever the form of this drug, no one can dispute the effect of nicotine on the human body.