Smoking

 

Smoking ceases to be „cool“, as it used to be, also because it is being linked to a number of health risks. Demonstrably, smoking causes lung cancer and other serious diseases. Tobacco-related illnesses are currently one of the most widespread death causes in Europe.

 

If you smoke, you not only systematically damage your own health, but also that of your beloved ones. People and animals in your vicinity are involuntarily becoming passive smokers. Passive smoking also contributes to a significant shortening of life expectancy. Stop smoking while you still have time to do so.

 

Do you know that:

-         one waterpipe (shisha) session equals 30 cigarettes?

-         each cigarette shortens your life by 5 minutes?

-         by smoking, an average smoker shortens his life by 15 years?

-         every second smoker dies of smoking-related diseases, half of them in middle age?

-         in the Czech Republic, 60 people daily are dying on smoking-related diseases?

 

 

 

   Tobacco history

 

   Tobacco and nicotine

 

   Tobacco smoke and its chemical composition

 

    Myths around smoking

 

    Prevalence of smoking in the Czech Republioc

 

    Smoking-related health consequences

 

    Diseases caused by smoking

 

    Diseases caused by passive smoking ("secondhand smoking")

 

    Tobacco addiction (test)

 

     How to stop smoking

 

    Nicotine replacement therapy

 

    Specialised help

 

 

Interesting links:

 

http://help-eu.com – For a life without tobacco

http://help-eu.cz/ - Better life without tobacco

http://helpers-eu.com – Helpers

http://smokefreeparty.com/ - Smoke Free Party

http://stop-koureni.cz – Stop smoking!

http://www.dokurte.cz –  Česká koalice proti tabáku  (Czech Coalition Against Tobacco)   

http://www.odvykani-koureni.cz – Smoking Cessation

http://www.slzt.cz – Společnost pro léčbu závislosti na tabáku (Society for Treatment of Tobacco Dependence)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine

http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/risks.htm

 

This section has been created with support of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports project entitled „Development of psychological counselling at universities in the Czech Republic“ that is being solved within the Student Counselling Centre at the 3rd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, in 2011.