A team of scientists from the Monell Chemical Center found out that the nicotine contained in breast milk of lactating mothers suffering from tobacco, reduces the sleep time of the child and makes him/her restless. According to Dr. Julie A. Menella (Julie A. Menella), the baby wakes up faster, when there is less time between the smoked cigarette and feeding procedure. This investigation, published in the journal Pediatrics, again raises the question of the impact of smoking on the child during feeding. In most cases, if a woman quits smoking …

Breast milk is the best food for your baby, especially at the initial stage of life. Thanks to it, the child can avoid a lot of diseases. Everyone understands that smoking mother, along with breast milk transmits her child not only nutrients, but also a lot of harmful substances (which are contained in tobacco smoke). The most dangerous of them is nicotine. In the body of the child nicotine is converted to another substance – cotinine. Its level in the babies who were breast-feed, can reach 10 times more than …

The number of smoking women is growing. What can the doctor say? Tobacco contains nicotine which is a poison for the body because it effects negatively on the heart and blood vessels. The small number of nicotine affects only at the firs inhale and then the body gets used to the poison and gets more amount of nicotine. But at certain concentration the nicotinism may occur. Smoking also brings other harm. If instead of fresh air to inhale the smoke into the lungs, the pulmonary vesicles (alveoli) will contain more …

Sociologists of service “Gallup” asked citizens of all continents of the Earth such question. They want to find the most tobacco dependent country on the planet. And it was Cuba. About 40% of the population, both men and women hold a cigarette in their hands. Russia, Belarus, Kuwait, Chile and Bangladesh take the second place in this ranking – 37%. A third of smokers are in the Baltic countries, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Less than 10% of smokers are in poor countries like Nigeria, Salvador, Ghana, Afghanistan and Ethiopia. The smokiest …

I started smoking, like most caught in this trap by youthful folly. The Company and the unwillingness to remain a black sheep were the main prerequisites, the main lures. Then I was only 15 years old. Of course, there are many ways to start smoking, but how many ways to quit smoking forever?
Let’s first walk briefly on the history of the average smoker. First, only starting to smoke, he/she probably said: “Oh, I just do not get used to it, I can control it. I just dabble.” Then, when smoking …