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No Smoking

You have known for a long time that tobacco is a health hazard. What you may be less aware of is hat it speeds up all the aging processes, with disastrous consequences for your appearance.

Tobacco spoils your beauty
Smoking narrows the blood vessels and reduces the amount of oxygen reaching the cells. The effect on your skin is immediately obvious; it becomes duller and yellower because the tiny blood vessels that supply it are derived of some of their hemoglobin, the red blood pigments. In addition, cigarettes are a cause of wrinkles and contribute to the slackening of body tissue. Finally, they turn your teeth yellow and help to make your gums recede.

How to stop smoking
In 50% of cases success is entirely a matter of willpower on the part of the smoker. However, you could find it helpful to try nicotine substitutes like patches and gum. If you prefer natural methods, you might try:

1. Acupuncture
   The aim of which is to make you feel disgusted with tobacco. Acupuncture has the added advantage of helping t reduce nervousness as well as avoiding insomnia.
2. Homeopathy
   This gradually breaks the habit by means of minutes doses of tobacco extracts.
3. Auricular Therapy
   This involves keeping a thread of nylon in the center of the outer ear for three weeks. It is based on the principle that, by irritating the part of the ear that corresponds to the body's need to smoke, the craving will be eliminated.
   If none of these methods work, you might consider specialized psychotherapy of hypnosis.

Some Facts about Smoking

• A very reliable study has shown that smoking one cigarette reduces your life by 11 minutes.
• It is known that consuming tobacco and alcohol together increases the risk of throat cancer 43 times and the risk of cancer of the nasal passages 135 times.