Do I need a doctor to quit smoking?

Launch tried smoking, many smokers. The only problem is that doing it more often haphazard, and the percentage of successes is rather low.

David Zaridze, professor, department head RONTS them. NN Blokhin, president of Cancer Society of Russia claims that the bulk of quit rates did so without the help of a doctor. This approach is perfectly valid if you can make your own conclusion: why you need to stop smoking regularly. Young people to quit smoking can stimulate the fact that recent studies the risk of impotence increases considerably for those who use cigarettes. In addition, male smokers often suffer from reduced sperm motility, fertility of female smokers also significantly lower than non-smokers. Thus, the risk of infertility for a couple of smokers increases substantially.

Note the fact that smokers can be divided into 2 categories. The first of them - are those who have explicitly expressed the dependence on nicotine. First of all, their body needs a dose of this potent substance. The second group consists of the so-called "social smokers". Cigarettes bring them, above all, psychological satisfaction. Such people throwing smoke given fairly easy if you have correctly defined goals and support others. For those who are acutely dependent on nicotine, medical help will be most welcome.

Special pharmacy chewing gum and patches are able to deliver the dosage to the body you want him to nicotine. In the first case it enters the bloodstream through the mucous membrane of the mouth, the second - is absorbed through the skin. It takes some hard manifestations of nicotine break, makes life easier for smokers deprived of cigarettes. But a natural question arises: if the nicotine still enters the bloodstream - where is the benefit?

The scientist explains: the main poison in cigarettes - not nicotine. In tobacco smoke a lot of other, much more severe, poisons: carcinogens, toxic substances. Carcinogens provoke the emergence of cancer of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, lung, esophagus, bladder, and 7 other forms of cancer. Toxic substances are working on narrowing of the vascular wall, contribute to the formation of blood clots, atherosclerosis. Their role is extremely high in case of cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke. Funds to replace the nicotine can reduce negative effects on the body about half.

Treatment of nicotine dependence may be conducted with medication. Preparations have to appoint a doctor. If no smoking causes the body a natural stress, you can apply soothing medicine. However, their effect is likely to be only a partial solution. The main drugs for treatment of nicotine addiction can substitute for nicotine by binding to receptors in the brain instead. The effectiveness of these drugs is very high, but the side effects can be serious. From increasing anxiety, sleep disorders to acute mental illness and even deaths.

Satisfactory results are obtained by the method of coding. Like any psychotherapeutic method, it helps create a strong motivation.

Acupuncture, in the opinion of David Zaridze, has more psychological impact.

Currently in vogue for some reason part chewing and snuff. Many consider him a harmless alternative to cigarettes. When they forget that the carcinogenic and toxic substances anywhere from tobacco do not disappear, even if it does not burn. Property tobacco irritate the mucous membrane leads to the fact that during its use may develop cancer of the oral cavity, nasopharynx, esophagus. In European countries, the sale of such tobacco is prohibited.

Many smokers cite the doctors say: they say, too late to smoke into adulthood. Organism was used, and it will only get worse.

Scientists say that parting with addiction will be appropriate at any age. According to research, one smoker, that life consumes about packs a day, has one chance in five lung cancer if you smoke, he will throw in 60 years, this figure drops to 1 case of 7, if the cast will be in the 50 -- years of age, the risk of falls almost doubled.

For smoking cessation the most important is the desire of the smoker. If not, the treatment and medical methods are completely useless.