F*ck tobacco!

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Артём Овечкин. F*ck tobacco!

Chapter 1. How smoking affects the health of smokers and others

1.1. Do we realize how harmful smoking is to our health?

1.2. How does tobacco smoke affect the human body?

1.3. How smoking affects our nervous system

1.4. How smoking affects the respiratory system

1.5. The effect of smoking on the cardiovascular system

1.6. The effects of smoking on the digestive system

1.7. The effect of smoking on sexual function

1.8. Adolescent health and tobacco

1.9. Dangers of smoking for women and offspring

1.10. The harmful effects of tobacco smoke on passive smokers

1.11. Smoking and incidence of cancers

1.12. Nicotine addiction

Chapter 2. Key counseling issues for nicotine addicts

2.1. My counseling plan

2.2. The importance of working out all components of nicotine dependence

2.3. Difficulties in the understanding of health dangers of smoking

2.4. Medical help from a narcologist and dominant role of psychological dependence

2.5. Illusions of a tobacco-dependent person about the role of smoking in his/her life

2.6 Existential guilt that prevents us from quitting smoking

2.7. Paradox in counseling a tobacco-dependent person

2.8. Psychological and physical practices that facilitate smoking cessation

2.9 Encouraging a client to believe that he/she can succeed in quitting smoking

Conclusion

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Most smokers prefer not to think about the price they pay for their “habit”. And the price is indecently high. Every cigarette, slowly but steadily, deteriorates the most valuable “property” of a smoker – his health.

The problems have become acute all over the world. Nowadays, it is almost impossible to find a country where people do not smoke tobacco or tobacco products. Tobacco smoking was recognized as a plague of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, and not without reason. According to the report of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2015, there are about 1.1 billion smokers in the world.

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In Philip Morris documents, a cigarette is defined as follows: “The cigarette should be conceived not as a product but as a package. The product is nicotine. Think of the cigarette pack as a storage container for a day’s supply of nicotine. Think of the cigarette as a dispenser of a dose unit of nicotine. Smoke is beyond question the most optimized vehicle of nicotine and the cigarette the most optimized dispenser of smoke.” (Philip Morris, 1972)

The dependent position of the smoker affects the way other people perceive him or her. They usually consider a smoker as a weak person with an unhealthy “habit”, who cannot give up the pleasure of smoking even after physicians repeatedly reported about the disastrous consequences, including cancer.

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