• FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY, LETTERS AND

SCIENCE OF EDUCATION

• LANGUAGE SCHOOL

• Student: Luis Maldonado

• Course: 4to bilingual

• Topic: The Snuff

The snuff is an agricultural product native to America and processed from the leaves of various plants of the genus Nicotiana tabacum. Is consumed in various forms, the main producing combustion fumes. Hisparticular nicotine content makes it very addictive. Some authors do not believe nicotine dependence, as is afirmarse.1 lawfully marketed world wide,although in many countries has numerous restrictions on consumption, because of adverse effects to public health

• Definition

• Smoking (inhale and

exhale the

smoke produced by burning

snuff), leads to chronic

poisoning called smoking.

The dried leaves

of the plant are smoked in a

pipe snuff or pure, but the

most widespread form is

the cigar or cigarette.

• History

• The snuff is a native plant of America. The

first Europeans who came to

America found that the

Indians smoked the leaves of

snuff pipe, and introduced the practice

in Europe in the mid-sixteenth

century. Later, the French

diplomat Jean Nicot, who should plant the

generic name (Nicotiana), was introduced

to the rest of Europe from where it

spread progressively to the rest of the world.

• With the lighting of a

cigarette are

released several com

ponents:

tar, cyanide, benzene,

carbon

monoxide, oxides

of nitrogen and

nicotine just to

name a few.

• Snuff AddictionNicotine, an alkaloid of snuff, is the main component when it comes to physical dependence that creates this habit because it is a highly addictive drug.Smoking affects the heart in several ways. Although most people are very familiar with the relationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer and other respiratory diseases, many still unaware of this habit as a risk factor in hypertension and in total pathology circulatory.The smoker: Your social environment and needs.Smoking seems to be, in its origin, the product of the socialization of the individual. The concept of socialization denotes the process by which culture is transmitted from one generation to the next

Reasons for

smoking

Need to enhance their positive

feelings or lessen negative

feelings.

Identification with

the environment.

Psychological addiction.

• Smoking is the biggest epidemic facing

humanity and, like other diseases that

depend on human behavior is a

high morbidity and

mortality. Legal addiction, consumption is

stimulated freely, at least in our country. Its

impact on the human being understood

when you know that in the U.S. 300,000

people die each year and in our country

with a population nine times less, 40,000.

WHO is currently estimated at 1,000 million

the number of smokers in the world, or

about a third of the population 15 and

older. Out of this total, 800 million live

in developing countries.

• Smoking is not only "a

habit" is also a drug, since

the act of

smoking snuff meets all the

criteria that define the use

of a substance as such:

-Existence of tolerance

-Unit

-Withdrawal in the absence

of the same

Compulsive behavior

The head of the dependence is nicotine, a

substance with a great power of addiction like other

drugs such as heroin or cocaine.

The form of dependence that smoking generates is:

Physical dependence, caused directly by nicotine

and is responsible for the withdrawal.

Psychological dependence, smoking has become a

company in every situation, after meals, with coffee,

talking on the phone, etc ... and it

seems impossible to change this relationship

Why are you quitting?

The main one is that

the use of snuff is the

leading cause of

preventable

disease and preventabl

e mortality

in developed

countries. 19% of

cases of mortality is

the cause of snuff

prevention.

In the snuff multiple

substances found in

much harmful to health.

Among them, notable

for its damaging

effects:

Carbon

monoxide, which is

responsible for more

than 15% of

cardiovascular

disease.

Nicotine produces p

hysical dependence.

In

addition, the snuff is

the cause

80% mortality

from chronic lung

processes.

Tars

(benzopyrene, and nitro

samines) accounted for

30% of all

cancers (bladder, kidney

, pancreas, stomach, et

c..), And 90% of lung

cancer.

• How to Quit Smoking

Smoking cessation is due to undergo a series of temporal processes in attitude towards the habit and need to go through them in order to adopt an attitude of neglect.

Stages of smoking:Precontemplation stage. The smoker enjoys smoking and does not pose any problem, it is a consonant smoker Ie smoking and are sure he does well. At this stage, smokers are under 30 years, with no associated diseases or not to snuff. Nearly half of smokers are at this stage.Approach phase or contemplation. The smoker is raised and the possible health consequences of smoking, and some positive to quit. Start being a smoker dissonant, ie smoke but you think it is wrong to do so. 30% of smokers are at this stage.Action Phase. The smoker is obliged to quit, passes to a more dissonant chord is known that smoking is bad and leaves. This step is repeated several times in the evolution of the unit will pass to the contemplation and action repeatedly. 20% of smokers areat this stage.Consolidation or maintenance phase. One can say that at this stage are those smokers who take more than 6 months of abstinence. Do not smoke anything but up to 12 months can not be considered as an ex-smoker.Phase of relapse. It occurs in a variable percentage of cases, it will normally pass to the contemplation stage and take more or less to return to action. It is accompanied by a loss of self esteem.

conclusion

scientifically, smoking is bad not only

for our health but for our family, since this

is something that tends to destroy not only

the health of smoking, but whole

families, we must raise awareness of the

consequences of smoking

and addiction react to the evil we are

doing to the environment, our

health and all the evil that this implies

for entire families.

THANK

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