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It also changes the color of the teeth and gum damage

Cigarette smoking nearly doubles the risk that smokers need root canals in teeth and molars, according to a study published the journal “Journal of Dental Research.”

Previous studies had determined that cigarette smoking changes the color of the teeth and cause gum disease, the article to be published in April and was released today on the Internet.

“The findings substantiate what most of us already know: Smoking damages your health,” said epidemiologist Elizabeth Krall Kaye, the Veterans Hospital in Boston, who is also professor of health policy at the School of Medicine, University of Boston.

“We found that cigarette smokers were 70 percent more likely to need root canal treatment than nonsmokers,” said Kaye.

“Because endodontics is so common, it is estimated that half of U.S. adults have had at least one of these treatments before age 50 years, perhaps people can connect to it rather than lung cancer and other conditions induced by smoking, “he added.

“No matter what your age, you may need a root canal and, as our research shows, smoking increases the risk,” said Kaye.

The findings are based on data collected by the system of the Veterans Administration. The study, which began in 1968, analyzed the dental and physical health of more than 800 men over 30 years.

The root canal is necessary when the dental pulp, this is the soft tissue of the tooth that contains nerves and blood vessels become inflamed. The dentist removes the infected tissue, clean the space and fill the tooth or tooth to prevent bacterial infection re-colonize the area.

With the help of endodontic residents who studied the X-rays taken in the course of the study, Kaye was able to identify 998 teeth that received this treatment, and data were then compared with the smoking habits of each man.

Lung cancer is one of the most common tumors among the Spanish population and it is estimated that some 55 daily new cases detected. His main culprit: the snuff. The good news is that quit smoking immediately reduces the risk of developing it.

A team from the Hospital of Rhode Island, United States, has demonstrated the efficacy of a minimally invasive, radiofrequency, in patients with lung cancer who cannot resort to surgery. This technique involves inserting a special needle that transmits high-frequency electrical currents to the tumor.

According to the authors of this study, the participants, the survival rate was 78 percent one year after treatment. And this treatment also has the advantage that it can be done on an outpatient basis without hospitalization, and produce few side effects.

In addition to the high probability of producing a respiratory or lung cancer (by groups containing tar and nitrosamines), nicotine causes spasms in blood vessels and arteries Lapp…. as if this were not enough detailed below the main effects produced by nicotine:

• Unit.

• Hypertension.

• Interaction with several medications, many of which will neutralize the effect (for example, know that each cigarette it consumes 30 mg of vitamin C).

• Increased cholesterol.

• Decreased blood flow.

• Risk of angina pectoris and heart attacks.

• Erectile dysfunction (impotence).

• gait disorders.

• Gastritis and stomach ulcers.

• Decreased urination.

• Shortness of breath, bronchitis and emphysema.

In addition to nicotine with each cigarette are inhaling hundreds of carcinogenic chemicals.

Nicotine is a stimulant substance that reduces the total time of sleep due to the increase in the same period of latency. Several studies found a strong association between smoking and alterations in the quality and quantity of sleep. Here are the main effects of the dream also cigarette.

1. Bad break, apnea, and nightmares.

2. Bruxism or grinding of teeth.

3. Restless legs syndrome.

4. Hypercapnia (increased carbon dioxide levels in the blood) and alveolar hypoventilation (respiratory rate decrease affects the amount of air entering the lungs).

5. Obstructive apnea, caused by the smoke that affects the airways.

6. Frequent awakenings (sleep fragmentation) due to the anxieties
or the need to incorporate nicotine during withdrawal night

7. Trouble falling and staying asleep (insomnia) for the stimulating effect that nicotine has on the nervous system.

8. Snoring, the snuff causes inflammation and edema in the upper airway.

9. Certain medications. When a smoker decides to quit smoking, some medications used to treat the syndrome and lack of nicotine also affect the sleep mechanism.

You know that hurts, and much snuff. Surely you have thought about leaving one of these days, but meanwhile, keep smoking. Did you know that today, in some developed countries, more women die from lung cancer than breast cancer? Become aware of the problem of smoking, and act accordingly. All will gain both health and quality of life. Quitting smoking is not impossible. The first step is to be convinced and want to. Million former smokers have succeeded.

One thing you should know about the huge profits when you begin to stop suck. Spirit to continue your program would be realized. Advantage since you quit smoking you can enjoy depends on how long you stop.

Immediately after twenty (20) minutes to stop smoking,

Your blood pressure to normal and the level of momentum in the normal way, the level of progress. Hands with the temperature returned to normal feet. Immediately after the seven-hour chronology of smoking returnds concentration of carbon monoxide in your system to normal.

After twenty-four-hour program

Quit smoking, damaged nerves to grow again.The pain associated with smell and taste will increase approximately 30%. Increasing circulation in the body intact and complete imrproves.

You will be surprised to nine months after quitting time.

You have more energy and vitality. You do not have flu-like disease and immune deficiency.

Cough, shortness of breath and reduce sinus problems the last 12 months to quit smoking timeline. Heart problems may be more than 50% off.

After five years of smoking

The possibility of lung cancer associated with a lower, more than fifty percent. This option is to fight with stroke or stroke risk reduction of fifty percent of the throat, mouth and throat cancer will be reduced by more than fifty percent of the

After 15 years, when done
Precancerous cells are replaced and renewed growth. The possibility of heart problems such as non-smokers.

Want to be healthy again? keep cigarette in your mind.

Bad habit of smoking is very difficult to avoid and may be more difficult to escape from drug addiction, the impact is very large compared with the drug and narcotic addiction. Avoidance, the impact is very large compared with other drugs.

Impact of active smokers

Nicotine-addicted people will feel confused, dizzy and could not understand what it means to live if you do not inhale the smoke. They principled that their lives, ideas, and enthusiasm they showed when they smoke cigarettes.

They do not realize the dangers that lurk health and do not care about the importance of health for individuals and for people aged lain.Tampa realized that they had been gnawed by hundreds of poison that spreads throughout their bodies.

Smoking and its impact on health, among others:

-Lungs
If someone smoke a cigarette, nicotine in and penetrate the lungs and then spread throughout the body via blood vessels.

-Hormones
With the collapse of the hormone then people will experience impotence.

-The heart and blood vessels
With the spread of nicotine to the bloodstream, the fatal effects for the heart and nicotine also spread to the brain that nicotine addiction can make them senile and weak memory.

- Cancer
Another danger is the nicotine causes blood cancer (leukemia).

The most shocking and the feared impact on fetuses, infants and children who participated innocent bears.

So I created this article may be useful to the reader and one message, let us against the dangers of nicotine, do not smoke for a longer life and meaning.