Facts About Smoking
Facts About Smoking
When a cigarette is lighted, it burns at a temperature of 700�C at the tip and 60�C in the core. This heat breaks the tobacco into various toxins, which are inhaled inside along with smoke.The most damaging products are tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide.
The damage caused by smoking is influenced by the:
- Number of cigarettes smoked,
- Whether or not the cigarette has a filter,
- How the tobacco has been prepared.
Nicotine is the component in cigarettes, responsible for addiction. On inhalation, the body starts responding to it immediately. There's a feeling of relaxation and relief. One gradually becomes psychologically and then physically dependent on nicotine. If the person doesn't smoke later, there's a craving sensation for cigarettes.
Find out if you are addicted to smoking. If the answer is yes to any of these is yes you are addicted to smoking.
- smoking more than 7 cigarettes a day;
- smoking within 30 minutes of waking up in the morning;
- smoking frequently during morning;
- finding it difficult to avoid smoking in smoking-restricted areas;
- an overwhelming need to smoke even when sick;
- suffering from headache, constipation, and becoming anxious if one is not able to smoke as and when the craving occurs.
Smokers usually take deep puffs and hold smoke for long durations within their lungs, thereby dragging the tar deeper inside. Carbon monoxide robs the muscles, brain, and body tissues of oxygen, making whole body, especially the heart work harder. Over time, airways swell up and let lesser air into the lungs.
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