Smoking Facts

The cigarette was named some time in the 18th century: beggars in Seville began to pick from the ground the cigar ends left by
the señoritos("rich, young men"), wrapped the tobacco remains with paper and smoked them.
A cigarette (French for"small cigar") is a product consumed through smoking and manufactured out of cured and finely cut tobacco
leaves and reconstituted tobacco, often combined with other additives, then rolled or stuffed into a paper-wrapped cylinder
(generally less than 120 mm in length and 10 mm in diameter).

Rates of cigarette smoking vary widely. While rates of smoking have leveled off or declined in developed countries, their use
continues to rise in undeveloped countries.

While the assembly of cigarettes is straightforward, much focus is given to the creation of each of the components,
in particular the tobacco blend, which may contain over 100 ingredients,[9] many of them flavourants for the tobacco.
A key ingredient that makes cigarettes more addictive is the inclusion of reconstituted tobacco, which has additives to make
nicotine more volatile as the cigarette burns.The process of blending gives the end product a consistent taste from batches
of tobacco grown in different areas of a country that may change in flavour profile from year to year due to different
environmental conditions.

Each cigarette's tobacco blend is made mainly from the leaves of flue-cured brightleaf, burley tobacco, and oriental tobacco.
The processing of brightleaf and burley tobaccos for tobacco leaf "strips" produces several by-products such as leaf stems,
tobacco dust, and tobacco leaf pieces.The most common tobacco by-products include:

Improved stems (IS) Improved stems are rolled, flattened, and shredded then steamed

Expanded (ES) are rolled, flattened, and shredded leaf stems that are expanded by being soaked in water and rapidly heated.

Reconstituted leaf (RL) a paper-like material made from recycled tobacco fines, tobacco stems and "class tobacco", which
consists of tobacco particles less than 30 mesh in size. These are collected at any stage of tobacco processing. RL is made by
extracting the soluble chemicals in the tobacco by-products, processing the leftover tobacco fibres from the extraction into
a paper, and then reapplying the extracted materials in concentrated form onto the paper. Then ammonium additives are applied

Blended leaf (BL) a thin, dry sheet cast from a paste made with tobacco dust collected from tobacco stemming, finely milled
burley-leaf stem, and pectin.

Expanded tobacco- The tobacco is "puffed", or expanded, by saturating it with supercritical carbon dioxide. This is used to
produce light cigarettes

It has been shown that higher prices for cigarettes discourage smoking. Every 10 percent increase in the price of cigarettes
reduced youth smoking by about seven percent and overall cigarette consumption by about four percent.

Approximately 5.5 trillion cigarettes are produced globally each year and are smoked by over 1.1 billion people or greater
than one-sixth of the world population

Cigarettes are the most frequent source of fires in private homes.

Mortality associated with smoking chiefly involves vascular, neoplastic, and respiratory diseases that can be caused by smoking.

Men born in 1900-1930 who smoked only cigarettes and continued smoking died on average about 10 years younger than lifelong
non-smokers. Smoke, or any partially burnt organic matter, is carcinogenic (cancer-causing). The damage a continuing smoker
does to their lungs can take up to 20 years before its physical manifestation in lung cancer.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) caused by smoking, known as tobacco disease, is a permanent, incurable reduction
of pulmonary capacity characterized by shortness of breath, wheezing, persistent cough with sputum, and damage to the lungs,
including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

50% of people who smoke long-term will die from a smoking-related condition.

Lung cancer claims more lives than any other cancer and smoking causes 80% to 90% of those deaths.

Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death in the world.

Smoking cessation will almost always lead to a longer and healthier life. Stopping in early adulthood can add up to 10
years of healthy life and stopping in one's sixties can still add three years of healthy life

The immediate effects of smoking cessation include:

Within 20 minutes blood pressure returns to its normal level
After 8 hours oxygen levels return to normal
After 24 hours carbon monoxide levels in the lungs return to those of a non-smoker and the mucus begins to clear
After 48 hours nicotine leaves the body and tastebuds are improved
After 72 hours breathing becomes easier
After 2-12 weeks, circulation improves
After 5 years, the risk of heart attack falls to about half that of a smoker
After 10 years, the chance of lung cancer is almost the same as a non-smoker.

Research in Western countries has found that approximately 3-5% of quit attempts succeed using willpower alone. by zachary gilman

Quit Smoking Adviser

I remember a friend told me that “Smokers don’t get old because they die young.” This is true if you think about it. Most smokers die in their middle age. Approximately 4 million people die every year around the world because of smoking. When you decide to quit smoking, commit to it. There must be no doubt or any negative views about how hard it is to quit. You must focus yourself about the benefits of achievements.

Smokers who successfully conquered their craving show that they have the capability to quit. Anyone can give up smoking. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been smoking but the fact that you stop is a great decision. List the reasons for quitting; this is to have the strong will of doing the act. Planning is the stepping stone to success. And these plans must be certainly followed. If you can’t quit instantly you could do so by decreasing the tar amount in the cigarettes that you use. But don’t smoke more than the usual number of cigarettes that you puff.

An increase of the number of sticks means more nicotine for your body. Lessen the number of sticks you smoke. Instead of the whole stick smoke half of it. Refrain from lighting your cigarette in 1 hour. Decide in advance on how many sticks you will smoke for the day. Remember to cut down not to increase your intake. A change of eating pattern would assist in cutting down. With each meal take something which would not lead to smoking a cigarette. Replace the cigarette with fruits or juice, this will make you healthier and will detoxify your body. Cutting down is not a substitute for stopping. When you set a quantity of cigarette per day you should stick to it and later on probably lessen the target number.

Don’t throw the butts in your ashtrays for it will leave an awful scent that will remind you of the dump you are setting in your system. Change the places on where you put your cigarette so you would crack the automatic reach. Make smoking difficult. Don’t buy cigarettes on cartons; instead wait until you finish one before buying another pack. Don’t bring cigarettes to work and home so getting one wouldn’t be easy. find more here

Easy Way to Stop Smoking

Before reading this article I wanted to ask first, did at this time you want to stop the habit smoked? If true had the wish from your heart that most in, I personal would like to congratulate. The decision that you took this was very exact for the sake of the health yourself yourself and the person of the person in and around you. Saw the height of the price this package of cigarettes of the end end, this decision was also very beneficial for the health of your pocket.

Usually the smoker has the schedule smoked that was not written. Their example smoked after eating, smoked during ngeblog, smoked when queuing the vehicle and so on other. For the other activity when at that time so as you did not pass the time that with smoked. The example after eating you could digest peppermints or cover food. During ngeblog you could eat the snack, when queuing your vehicle could browsing or read the book. Was not easy indeed but when being carried out with the determination was full then can be carried out by you.

Process the body and drank enough water will help you to forget cigarettes. This activity will make your body healthier and helped issued the toxin and the bad material material from cigarettes left the body. Process the body also made you forget cigarettes because of engrosseding in processing the body moreover when sport was carried out in the environment that often had the person so as you could socialise also.

All the methods above will be successful when indeed had the determination from yourself to stop smoked.