Kempen anti-merokok, "Tak Nak", melalui media pada tahun lepas telah berjaya meningkatkan kesedaran orang ramai mengenai bahaya merokok. Kempen "Tak Nak" itu dilancarkan oleh Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi pada Februari tahun lepas.
Sumber dari Kementerian Kesihatan berkata kempen itu memberi tumpuan terhadap faktor yang mempunyai kaitan dengan tingkah laku perokok, dan di samping Quitline sedia ada di Pusat Racun Negara USM (04-6572924), kementerian itu akan melancarkan hotlinenya sendiri (03-88894876) bagi perokok mendapat nasihat untuk menghentikan tabiat buruk mereka itu.
Jumlah Klinik Berhenti Merokok kerajaan pula telah ditambah daripada 167 pada tahun lepas kepada lebih 200 pada tahun ini, manakala 280 kakitangan telah dilatih bagi membuat penilaian, memberi kaunseling dan merawat perokok yang ingin meninggalkan tabiat itu.
Kepada perokok sekelian marilah sama2 kita kurangkan merokok dan akhirnya berenti terus dari merokok, untuk kesejahteraan hidup kita yang sihat.
There are over 4000 chemicals in cigarette smoke. Most of these are poisonous and some are known to cause cancer. So, take a deep breath and find out what's inside a cigarette.
Nicotine
The damage to health may be caused by the tar and poisonous chemicals, but it's the nicotine in tobacco which smokers can grow to depend upon.
Tar
Ciggie smoke condenses when it's inhaled. This is a bit like watching droplets form upon the ceiling above a boiling kettle. The end result with smoking, however, is a whole lot more black and sticky.
Carbon monoxide
This is a poisonous gas found in high concentration in cigarette smoke, not to mention the stuff which coughs out of car exhaust pipes. Once inside the lungs, the carbon atoms grab any passing haemoglobin (the oxygen forming substance found in the blood) and basically take a joy ride around the body.
Butane
Lighter fuel
Ammonia
Cleaning products
Acetone
Nail Varnish Remover
Arcenic
Rat Poison
Hydrogen Cyanide
Poison used on death row
Radon
Radioactive gas
Cadmium
Batteries
Formaldehyde
Used to pickle dead bodies
Methanol
Rocket Fuel
Follow the 10 top tips above and then:
Reward yourself!Save the money that you would have spent on cigarettes for a treat such as a new outfit, going out for a meal or taking a holiday.
And remember - once stopped, stay stopped.Remember that 'just one cigarette' can lead to another. Keep reminding yourself of the health and other benefits of stopping smoking. Make sure you take the full course of any nicotine replacement treatment you are using.
Mari kita lihat apakah faedah-faedah tidak merokok:
by: Mike Cliff
LAST YEAR RICHARD John Singer Sargent and Robert Alan Shepard, two physicians World Health Organization had campaigned for a smoke prohibition in Capital of Montana, Montana, announced that their efforts had paid off more dramatically than anyone could have imagined: The ordinance had led to an astonishing 60 percentage drop curtain in spirit attacks in the six months after it took effect. By the time their study, co-authored by anti- activist Stanton Glantz, was published in the April 5, 2004, issue of the British Medical Journal, the drop cloth they attributed to the proscription had become 40 per centum--not quite as impressive but distillery remarkable. And hush preposterous, even if you accept the anti- movement's claims approximately used fastball and mettle disease.
According to the American Heart Association, heater is responsible for(p) for close to pct of nerve disease deaths. Even a Bachelor of Arts in Nursing that completely eliminated photograph to hummer (which 's didn't, since it did not apply to private residences) could not achieve anything like the effect described by , Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., and Glantz, WHO in any case made no attempt to measure photo. Hedging their bets, et al. noted that a BAN not only reduces pic to bullet but besides encourages smokers to give up or cut back.
But even if 's ordinance caused every smoker in town to fall by the wayside (which it assuredly didn't), it stillness could not be creditworthy for a 40 dip in spunk attacks. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, accounts for just about 20 of pump disease deaths.
An immediate 40 fall in ticker attacks across the whole population too implies a much quicker and larger risk reduction than is seen in studies of people drop by the wayside .
In response to educators' need for better ways to deal with teens World Health Organization smoke, the American English Lung Connection developed a new gender-sensitive, schoolhouse-based adolescent smoke surcease programme called Not On Baccy (N-O-T). N-O-T is intentional to provide an effective, easy-to-manipulation, and usable method for helping adolescents drop out . The plan is especially configured for 14 to 19-class-old youthfulness WHO ar regular smokers likely to be addicted to nicotine; volunteer to enter (whenever potential); and wish to give up exploitation a grouping platform.
About The Author
Mike Cliff http://www.informationkiosk.net
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by: Michael Sneed
Almost everybody knows that smoking is bad for the health. Images of blackened lungs line school hallways and hospital waiting rooms, but despite this people continue to take up smoking. This may have to do with the pervasive romantic image of smoking -- an image that has nothing in common with reality.
There are many ways to take tobacco. You can chew it, inhale it through the nose, and smoke it in the form of cigars or cigarettes. No matter how it's taken it is dangerous, but because smoking is the most popular way to consume tobacco it has also received the greatest attention from the medical field and the media.
When a smoker inhales a puff of cigarette smoke the large surface area of the lungs allows nicotine to pass into the blood stream almost immediately. It is this nicotine "hit" that smokers crave, but there is a lot more to smoke than just nicotine. In fact, there are more than 4000 chemical substances that make up cigarette smoke and many of them are toxic.
Cigarette smoke is composed of 43 carcinogenic substances and more than 400 other toxins that can also be found in wood varnish, nail polish remover, and rat poison. All of these substances accumulate in the body and can cause serious problems to the heart and lungs.
Cancer is the most common disease associated with smoking. Smoking is the cause of 90% of lung cancer cases and is related to 30% of all cancer fatalities. Other smoking-related cancers include cancers of the mouth, pancreas, urinary bladder, kidney, stomach, esophagus, and larynx.
Besides cancer, smoking is also related to several other diseases of the lungs. Emphysema and bronchitis can be fatal and 75% of all deaths from these diseases are linked to smoking.
Smokers have shorter lives than non-smokers. On average, smoking takes 15 years off your life span. This can be explained by the high rate of exposure to toxic substances which are found in cigarette smoke.
Smokers also put others at risk. The dangers of breathing in second-hand smoke are well known. Smokers harm their loved ones by exposing them to the smoke they exhale. All sorts of health problems are related to breathing in second-hand smoke. Children are especially susceptible to the dangers of second-hand smoke because their internal organs are still developing. Children exposed to second-hand smoke are more vulnerable to asthma, sudden infant death syndrome, bronchitis, pneumonia, and ear infections.
Smoking can also be dangerous for unborn children. Mothers who smoke are more likely to suffer from miscarriages, bleeding and nausea, and babies of smoking mothers have reduced birth weights or may be premature. These babies are more susceptible to sudden infant death syndrome and may also have lifelong health complications due to chest infections and asthma.
It is never too late to give up smoking, even those who have smoked for 20 years or more can realize tremendous health benefits from giving up the habit.
About The Author
Michael Sneed can be found online at http://www.smokingblogonline.com.
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