What are the effects of passive smoking on your loved ones?
Everyone knows it: smoking is bad for your health. That’s why many smokers embark on a smoking cessation journey to improve their health. The benefits are numerous: better oxygenated body, easier breathing, reduced risk of heart attack, stroke, or lung cancer… But did you know that smoking also has harmful effects on those around you? This is known as passive smoking.
What is passive smoking?
Passive smoking is the involuntary inhalation of tobacco smoke. This occurs when a person inhales smoke exhaled by a smoker or breathes in smoke from a lit cigarette. This is called environmental smoke. Not only can it be bothersome, but it is particularly dangerous for both smokers and non-smokers.
What are the risks of passive smoking?
Passive smoking causes serious illnesses and even deaths every year.
Immediate harmful effects
Environmental smoke, especially in a closed environment, causes immediate discomfort: irritation of the nose, eyes, lungs, nausea, headaches, or even asthma attacks.
Long-term health effects
People who involuntarily inhale cigarette smoke over the long term, such as those living under the same roof as a smoker, are at risk of developing serious diseases. Indeed, the smoke contains carcinogenic chemicals that can cause cancers, such as lung cancer.
Moreover, it is also composed of carbon monoxide and other toxic substances that can increase the risk of heart diseases, respiratory problems, and even death.
Risks for pregnant women and children
Passive smoking is particularly dangerous for pregnant women. When they inhale this smoke, they unintentionally poison their baby. This can cause intrauterine growth retardation.
Cigarette smoke is also particularly harmful to children and more harmful than to adults. Passive inhalation in children significantly increases the risk of respiratory infections, ear infections, asthma attacks, or sudden infant death syndrome.
Risks for the smoker
As a smoker, you also suffer from passive smoking. Indeed, in addition to the smoke you voluntarily inhale, you also breathe in the environmental smoke from your own consumption or that of the smokers around you. Thus, the harmful effects of passive smoking accumulate with those of your active smoking.
How to protect your loved ones from passive smoking?
Smoking is therefore dangerous for you, but also for your loved ones. Colleagues, family, friends, partner, and children: you must ensure to reduce their exposure to smoke to preserve their health.
Smoking outside and ventilating
Smoke as much as possible outside and stay away from non-smokers, especially children. Indoors, open windows to ventilate your living space regularly. However, note that ventilating a room is not enough to prevent passive smoking. Toxic products remain in the air and will still be inhaled.
Also, avoid smoking in a closed space, such as in a closed room or in a car with passengers. In Belgium, it is prohibited to smoke in closed public places, as well as in cars with minors.
Quitting smoking
The best way to protect your loved ones from passive smoking is to quit smoking tobacco. This provides a healthier environment for those around you and significantly reduces their exposure to cigarette smoke and its toxic components. This will have a dual effect: you improve your health and protect the health of those around you.
To stop your tobacco consumption, a smoking cessation is necessary. You can quit smoking alone or use nicotine substitutes (patches, gums, lozenges, inhalers). There are also effective alternative methods to help you in your cessation, such as laser auriculotherapy.
Preserve your loved ones' health with laser auriculotherapy
Laser auriculotherapy is an effective alternative method to say goodbye to cigarettes. Points on the ear are stimulated using a laser to eliminate the craving caused by an addiction to tobacco and nicotine. As a result, you no longer feel the urge to smoke right after the session. This gentle cessation is risk-free and allows you to avoid the side effects associated with quitting smoking (weight gain, nausea, dizziness, etc.).
At Reset Laser Institute, our laser auriculotherapy method helps you quit smoking for good in just one session. It is therefore an effective way to combat your tobacco addiction, improve your health, and protect your loved ones from the harmful consequences of passive smoking.
Make an appointment at a Reset Laser center
Do you want to stop smoking? Reset Laser welcomes you to one of its centres. Our therapists use the soft laser method to get rid of your addiction to tobacco for good. In just one session, you can say goodbye to cigarettes!
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