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How to deal with it?
In the recent years smoking, both active and passive, has emerged as a serious health threat for people in our country. This year’s theme, ‘Tobacco a threat to development’ is more apt to our country’s situation.
In the recent years smoking, both active and passive, has emerged as a serious health threat for people in our country. This year’s theme, ‘Tobacco a threat to development’ is more apt to our country’s situation.
It has also been found that treatment of tobacco-related diseases and the loss of productivity caused therein cost the country around Rs 30,000 crore annually. This more than offsets all the revenue and employment generated by the tobacco industry in the country.
“Recent studies show that smoking accounts for approximately 20 per cent of all male deaths and five per cent of female deaths among Indians between the ages of 30 and 69,” said Dr G Vamshi Krishna Reddy Senior Medical Oncologist, Yashoda Hospitals - Malakpet, Hyderabad.
Tobacco is universally regarded as one of the major public health. Smokers have trouble breathing because smoking damages the lungs. If you have asthma, you can have more frequent and more serious attacks. Smoking causes a lot of coughing with phlegm (mucous).
The tar in cigarettes sticks to clothing, skin, and the insides of our lungs. “Tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals. Smoking cigarettes are the number-one risk factor for lung cancer. But, smoking can also affect your entire body,” said Dr Reddy.
The logical question that rises after becoming aware of dreadfully harmful effects of tobacco is how to give up its use. “The de-addiction to tobacco is quitting dependence on nicotine. This is actually a habitual addiction. It includes all types of nicotine product like cigarettes, bidi, gutka, tobacco chewing and other nicotine products,” said Dr Reddy.
“Many treatments, including Nicotine Replacement Therapy and non-nicotine medications, are available to help people who want to free themselves from the clutches of tobacco. They have been approved as safe and effective in treating nicotine dependence,” he added.
Using more than one medication may help you get better results. For example, combining a longer acting medication with a short-acting nicotine replacement product may be beneficial.
