Five ways smoking affects your health!
Five ways smoking affects your health!
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Despite knowing the serious health risks of using tobacco, most people find it hard to quit. Tobacco use is the single largest cause of preventable death globally. Nicotine, the main addictive chemical in tobacco, makes it hard for people, especially smokers to give up. It causes a rush of adrenaline when absorbed in the bloodstream or inhaled via cigarette smoke. Nicotine also triggers an increase in dopamine - the brain’s “happy” chemical, stimulating the area of the brain associated with pleasure and reward. Prolonged use of tobacco increases your risk of various health problems. Here are some of the most gruesome diseases caused by smoking and other tobacco products:
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COPD - an obstructive lung disease that makes it hard to breathe - is usually caused by smoking. COPD includes emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and in some cases, asthma. However, as many as 1 out of 4 Americans with COPD never smoked cigarettes, as per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Smoking reduces a woman's chances of getting pregnant. Women who smoke during pregnancy have a higher risk of complications such as bleeding, abortion, miscarriage, premature delivery of baby, stillbirth, abnormalities of the placenta. Also, babies whose mothers smoke while pregnant or who are exposed to secondhand smoke after birth develop weaker lungs. Tehy are also more like to die from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) than babies who are not exposed to cigarette smoke.
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