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Dear Meet. Welcome to lybrate. I can understand. Do not dream to reduce smoking. Just STOP SMOKING NOW and sustain it with will power. You can do it. You should exercise well, eat balanced diet, drink a lot of fruit juices, keep yourself entertained to balance your health. Take care.
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Dear Welcome to Lybrate. Tobacco is addictive. Cigarette also contains 4000+ carcinogenic chemicals other than nicotine. Nicotine and other chemicals can cause cancer of different types and areas. Throat cancer, mouth cancer, lung cancer, stomach cancer and brain problems can result. Over and above smoking may also increase the risk factor of heart attack and brain stroke. Please quit smoking. The best method is to leave it and continue with your will power. There are other methods like Nicotin...more
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Smoking most commonly leads to diseases affecting the heart and lungs and will most commonly affect areas such as hands or feet with first signs of smoking related health issues showing up as numbness, with smoking being a major risk factor for heart attacks, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd), emphysema, and cancer, particularly lung cancer, cancers of the larynx and mouth, and pancreatic cancer.overall life expectancy is also reduced in long term smokers, with estimates ranging from ...more
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Dear . Smoking is addictive as well as dangerous. Cigerette or beedi contains more than 4000 cancer causing chemicals in it. Even a single cigerette can increase the risk of cancer, heart attack, stroke, brain problems, throat problems and lung disorders. The best option to leave smoking is to have better will power. You should yourself get motivated to leave smoking and quit it on a fine day. Don't restart it. Take care.
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SHORT-TERM EFFECTS of Marijuana smoking
Short-term memory problems
Severe anxiety, including fear that one is being watched or followed (paranoia)
Very strange behavior, seeing, hearing or smelling things that aren’t there, not being able to tell imagination from reality (psychosis)
Panic
Hallucinations
Loss of sense of personal identity
Lowered reaction time
Increased heart rate (risk of heart attack)
Increased risk of stroke
Problems with coordination (i...more
Short-term memory problems
Severe anxiety, including fear that one is being watched or followed (paranoia)
Very strange behavior, seeing, hearing or smelling things that aren’t there, not being able to tell imagination from reality (psychosis)
Panic
Hallucinations
Loss of sense of personal identity
Lowered reaction time
Increased heart rate (risk of heart attack)
Increased risk of stroke
Problems with coordination (i...more
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Asked for male, 29 years old from Mumbai
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Hello,as u already knw that it's not good to smoke then u should try to quit it,Homoeopathic medicine Tabacum 1m 4 pills 4 times 4 days..n try taking chewing gums or chew Some chocolates when u feel like smoking..If u still feel ur energy levels are low then revert back..
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Hookah is as good as smoking a cigarette. It is claimed to be safer, but that is not so. There is high risk of interstitial lung disease.
Smokers have a higher risk of developing respiratory tract infections, apart from lung cancer and oral cancer. It is also a risk factor for peripheral vascular disease. This can lead to gangrene and inflammation of peripheral blood vessels.
It is advised that he stops smoking immediately. Consult a psychiatrist for smoking cessation treatment. Medicati...more
Smokers have a higher risk of developing respiratory tract infections, apart from lung cancer and oral cancer. It is also a risk factor for peripheral vascular disease. This can lead to gangrene and inflammation of peripheral blood vessels.
It is advised that he stops smoking immediately. Consult a psychiatrist for smoking cessation treatment. Medicati...more
Asked for male, 29 years old from Kolkata
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Chain smoking or not, this is a bad habit and has to stop immediately.There are some people who are on a reactive mode and will quit only after they have got a disease or reach the worst condition in their abuse. In addiction parlance this is called ?Hitting Rock Bottom?, that is, you will cease the abuse only when you have suffered the worst affect of the substance. Sometimes that stage may be a terminal stage and there is no turning back: it has become too late. You must live by the adage that...more
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It is not enough to quit smoking, which is in itself an excellent thing, but now you must do something to return your ravaged body, mind, and brain back to a healthy state. Depending on when you quit and how much you have smoked, it will take time for your health to revert to old times. To hasten it you must do some effective things immediately. The breathing problem probably indicates that you have already damaged your lungs from years of smoking. The tobacco tar in cigarette smoke lines your l...more
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