Reduce Cigarettes, Not Reduce Heart Disease Risk

If you want to avoid the bad impact of smoking as a result, there is no option other than stopping the bad habit. Because in fact, is not enough to reduce. From a long-term research revealed, the same risk with a large heavy smokers will still be waiting for them, which only reduce cigarette.

Reduce Cigarettes, Not Reduce Heart Disease Risk

If you want to avoid the bad impact of smoking as a result, there is no option other than stopping the bad habit. Because in fact, is not enough to reduce. From a long-term research revealed, the same risk with a large heavy smokers will still be waiting for them, which only reduce cigarette.
Suggestion that has often we hear that, be back by a team of Norwegian researchers in the research on the impact of cigarettes, which was published in the journal Tobacco Control. Mentioned that heavy smokers who start smoking to reduce risk remains fatal, ie, death due to heart disease.

Long-term research is done the research team of more than 51 thousand men and women aged between 20 and 34 years. At the beginning of the research, the team assesses the risk of disease kardiovaskular, and monitored for 20 years.

They were divided into several groups, among others, not smokers, middle-class smokers (cigarettes to 14 cigarettes per day), and groups that reduce smoking (in the beginning of the research they smoke more than 15 cigarettes a day, then reduce to half a cigarette at the time of the second examination ). During the first 15 years, men who smoke reduce the risk of death is smaller than the heavy smokers. However, after more than 15 years of his death to be the same number.

Whereas in women, heavy smokers who reduce the risk of cigarettes remain the same with the big heavy smoker, it is not yet known by the research team.

Head of the research team, said Dr.Kjell Bjartveit smoking 1-4 cigarettes a day, exposed to the risk of heart disease and the emergence of a line of other disease-stricken. So the only way to smoke is not healthy at all.

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Cigarettes & Heart Diseases

The relationship between tobacco with the blood of the lungs has to imagine the truth is that smoking behavior contributor to heart disease and diseases of other blood lines. Risk of death from heart disease is 2 to 3 more of the smokers compared with not smoking.

RISK heart attack
Atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries more common in smokers compared with not smoking. Suck smoke into the death of a major sudden, particularly in those men under the age of 50 years. Risk increases at the order at the smokers who also have high blood hypertensi or risk and both are high in most smokers. Women who take the drug prevention of pregnancy is also a strong smoking, may increase the risk of heart attack by up to 20 times. The more you smoke, (and higher tar / nicotine) greater risk.

GOOD NEWS! Reverse RISK
People who stop smoking can expect to reverse the risk of heart attack death quickly. In the year to stop smoking, the risk is almost the same as the people who never smoked. Survey shows that someone who was 32 years old who does not smoke, can expect to live approximately 7 years longer than a smoker the same age.


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