Lung cancer is one of the leading cause of death out of so many cancers around it surpasses colon and breast cancer. It is usually seen people ages 60 to 70. There are 2 types of cancer the benign and the malignant. In lung cancer malignant is higher compared to benign. Here are the following causes:
1. Leading the list are those smokers. It is the highest percentage than other causes. It is 10 times diagnosed to smokers than non-smokers. The longer the person smokes the higher the risk of having lung cancer it is because of the Tar in tobaccos and cigarettes.
2. People who work in mining like arsenic, chromium, iron oxides and coal dust.
3. People who live in the city than those who live in the country side, provinces or anywhere outside the city. It's very obvious it's because of the air pollution from cars, factories etc.
What are the symptoms?
In the early stage of cancer, you barely see any symptoms, that's why when the time it's diagnosed it is already in the advance stage. the most common symptom is
- having a cough that just don't leave even if antibiotics are already taken. When having some doubts about your cough you should see a doctor immediately. Especially, If it's been weeks or even months( with or without phlegm) and
- if your weight dropped rapidly,
- sudden lost of appetite and
- coughing out streaks of blood.
"Can you imagine blogging with your favorite laptop in front of the exhaust of car while the engine is running?" The carbon monoxide fumes from a car exhaust can kill you. But so can that cigarette that you puff on lazily as you blog on your laptop. That's because carbon monoxide fumes are released in the air when tobacco is burned. Its also stays inside the body to combine with hemoglobin, a form of protein in the red blood cells that transports oxygen to the body tissues. This combination slowly depletes the body of its oxygen supply. Which means that's smoking and sports don't mix since carbon monoxide reduces the supply of oxygen for your muscles. Research shows that smokers suffer shortness of breath almost 3 times more often than non-smokers. Carbon monoxide and nicotine combined can paralyze the lungs delicate hairs, called cilia. The respiratory system relies on the cilia to "sweep" the lungs and airways clean of dust, mucous and other dirt. Paralyzation Prevents them from doing this crucial function. The result, is what we known as smoker's cough.
What's in a Cigarette
There are lots! more than just addictive nicotine, these are the poison that go into your lungs each time you inhale cigarette smoke:
- Arsenic: used in rat poison
- Acetic Acid: hair dye and developer
- Acetone: main ingredient in paint and fingernail polish remover
- Ammonia: a typical household cleaner
- Benzene: rubber cement
- Cadmium: found in batteries and artists oil paint
- Carbon monoxide: poison
- Formaldehyde: used to embalm dead bodies
- Hydrazine: used in jet and rocket fuels
- Hydrogen Cyanide: poison in gas chambers
- Naphthalene: use in explosive, moth balls and paint pigments
- Nickel: used in the process of electroplating
- Phenol: used in disinfectants and plastics
- Polonium:radiation dosage, equal to 300 chest x-rays in one year
- Styrene: found in insulation material
- Tuluene: embalmers glue
- Vinyl chloride: ingredient found in garbage bags
- Facial wrinkles
- Bad breath
- Black lips
- A yellow stain on fingertips
- Stained teeth that's either yellowish or brownish
- An overall odor of stale smoke that everyone, except you, can detect
Do you want your man to stop his cigarette smoking ways, I was video surfing when I stumbled this funny anti-smoking ad, maybe some of you have seen it, I can't stop laughing after seeing this cool video, Its a little bit naughty but strong delivery of bad things you can get about smoking
Show this to your man who is a cigarette fanatic, maybe it can help him change his mind hahahaha! Enjoy!
Image via Wikipedia Its no surprise that smoking is the primary cause of lung diseases such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Smokers thought for years about quitting smoking, they try it once or twice. but some smokers did not even close to the finish line of quit smoking.But if your thinking of not trying a little more to stop smoking, think again, quitting cigarettes can have a dramatic effect on our health for the people surrounds you and specially you.
If you have tried to quit before and don't have success, don't give up the key is work with the people that surrounds you like your family and friends, work with your doctor to develop a plan that will work for you. Here some simple tips that can maybe help you started becoming smoke free.
Start a date to stop - Choose a quit day sooner rather than later, so you'll be more likely to stick to it. Prepare for your quit day by telling friends and family.
Know your options - Talk with your doctor about quitting. Depending on your age and health, you may be a good candidate for nicotine gum, the nicotine patch or your doctor can give you new ways on quit smoking. Ask also for smoking cessation programs.
Know your motives - To help you understand what motives you to smoke, start a smoking list or notebook. when you feel the urge to pick up a cigarette, write down what you are doing and how you are feeling at that time. After a while, you may begin to see a pattern, which can help make it easier to change your habits.
Ignore the urge - When the urge hits, take a walk, grab a healthy snack similar in shape to a cigarette like pretzels, carrots or celery, have a glass of water. The urge will usually pass within a minute or two.
Make the butts disappear - On your quit day, take all your smoking related items like lighters, matches, ashtrays, and specially the cigarettes.throw them away were you cant get it back.
Bank the rewards - Find a place to cigarette money, Each time you think about buying cigarettes, put the money there instead. Just think of the vacation you can take with the savings from one smoke-free year.
Giving up smoking is not easy, but help is available, the question is are you ready???
"Cigarettes smoking is dangerous to our health" this are the words we usually ignore when we by a pack of cigarettes. If you ask a smoker what are the good things they get from smoking, i think no one can answer a very positive answer, but still many are addicted to it. but if you ask what are the bad things you could get from smoking here are the top 5:
5. Halitosis or Bad Breath: No one wants a bad breath
4. Emphysema and Chronic bronchitis: Symptoms are hard to breath, continuous coughing, and too much phlegm in our lungs.
3. Heart Disease: the smoke of a cigarette retrograde to the oxygen that we breath, then oxygen combine with the blood that circulate around our body system , and then blood will go back to our heart with the chemicals that we get from the smoke of the cigarette. This is the cause of heart disease.
2. Cancer in the mouth, throat and esophagus: because cigarettes contains nicotine, carbon monoxide, at tar this chemicals causes cancer
1. Cancer in the lungs: This is the best disease that you could get in smoking cigarettes, and sometimes people who smoke don't even know and its too late after they know it that he has a lung cancer.
Still there are some bad things you could get from smoking cigarettes like teeth gets discolored, fingertips turns yellow, turns you into addict in smoking, smelly clothes, gets tired easily. and so much more.
Pregnant women who smokes can affects his unborn child because of chemicals that she inhale while smoking.
There are people that already stop from smoking but suddenly they keep coming back.
There are many ways to stop us from smoking, the only thing that we have to have is discipline and determination if we don't have this I'm sure we can not get away with our smoking problems even if its the best way or method on the market.
