Stop Smoking Cigar
What is the historical origin of smoking?
The oldest data on tobacco come from the region of Central America, where it was used by Indians in religious rituals, at least a thousand years before Christ. Regarding the use of the cigar, a piece of pottery of the tenth century of the Mayan Indians of Mexico region, shows an Indian with a cigar in his mouth.
The first Europeans to have contact with tobacco were the sailors of the crew of Christopher Columbus, to reach the Americas in 1492. The first European to plant tobacco in Europe was Jean Nicot, French ambassador to Portugal. At the time, he was Caterina de ‘Medici and his son, King Charles IX, in Paris, of migraine. In 1570, the botanist Jean Liebault gave the name Herba Nicotiana tobacco, in honor of Nicot, but continued to use the name for the tobacco plant. Cigarette name is derived from the indigenous Mayan Sikar, which means smoke.
The marketing of tobacco was so important to the economy of Brazil that the sheet is incorporated into the arms of the Republic (so how is the leaf of coffee).
2 – Smoking is a disease?
Smoking can and should be viewed as a disease that needs to be prevented and treated. The concept of health proposed by WHO is a state of complete physical, mental and social. This is incompatible with the habit of smoking, because smoking has on their health undermined by various diseases caused by tobacco, and develop physical dependence on cigarettes, which in itself is a disease.
3 – Why do people smoke?
Smokers usually start smoking in adolescence (94% start between 7 and 19 years), and this beginning has a few reasons:
- Desire to look older (self-affirmation);
- Defense, do something “forbidden”;
- Influence people’s life (friends, parents);
- The influence of advertising.
However, the individual is smoking over the years due to:
- Pleasure – there is no doubt that smoking creates pleasure, this is due to the euphoric effects that certain substances released by the cigarette market, especially nicotine, cause the brain;
- Habit – with the passage of time, the rituals involving the use of cigarettes (light a cigarette, smoking to drinking coffee, smoking while talking on the phone) become automatic. So that it is not uncommon for smokers to light a cigarette, and to put it in the ashtray, realizing that I had lit another;
- Dependence – is the most important factor in the maintenance of smoking (see question 5).
4 – What are the substances produced by cigarette?
The burning cigarette produces more than 4,500 substances, most harmful. They are distributed in a gas phase and another composed of microscopic particles. Tobacco has also radioactive components, such as radium-226, polonium-210 and lead-210.
5 – What is the addiction to nicotine or cigarette?
Nicotine dependence is a situation in which the body is not to tolerate its absence, reacting with extreme distress over this situation. It is a form of physical dependence, similar to that caused by alcohol dependence, cocaine and heroin.
The dependence is characterized by at least one of the following criteria:
- Tolerability – over time the individual no longer get the same pleasure with the same amount of nicotine, it needs increasing amounts of the substance;
- Persistent desire – the smoker spends much of his time in activities such as getting the cigarettes, using cigarettes. The smoker continues with the use of cigarettes, despite knowing that their health is being harmed. There is a loss of social, occupational or recreational activities because of cigarette use.
Additional Information:
Do you know that the owner of the biggest manufacturer of cigarettes died because of smoking.
Once you Engage in this field which is smoking cigarettes it is hard to kick and stop that bad habit but if you have a tough control and strong will you can beat that bad habit and quit smoking…
