Throw a cigarette. Today is World Day of quitting

The meaning of this addiction does not explain to anybody. "Just having nothing better to do?" - But we do not always have enough in the day at least another hour. Then, on the contrary - to relax, rest and think. However, you can simply think so, but for the entourage to pick up, for example, a pencil ... Every year on the third Thursday of November in most countries of the world celebrated the International Day of quitting. So excuse to forget cigarettes at home and simply ignore the tobacco kiosk available.
This day was established in 1977 by the American Cancer Society. And although the direct relationship between smoking and fatal disease is not clear, a risk factor for cancer in smokers increased many times.
Indicative such statistics promulgated by the World Health Organization:
- In the world 90% of deaths from lung cancer, 75% of chronic bronchitis and 25% of coronary heart disease - caused by smoking;
- Every ten seconds on the planet is dying, one heavy smoker (in 2020 this rate could rise to one person for three seconds);
- Every second smoker gets acquainted with a cigarette still in high school;
- Regular smokers today include 50-60% of men (among certain categories of citizens, this figure reaches 95%).
As Mark Twain said, "quit smoking easily - I'll throw a hundred times, still in school." This is no panacea. It is noteworthy that no matter how much to raise prices on cigarettes, smokers will still buy them. The man who begins to smoke, do not deny yourself this "pleasure" - a habit's not included. How then to reduce the statistics of the negative effects of smoking?
The purpose of the International day of non-cigarette - help to reduce the prevalence of tobacco dependence, involvement in the fight against smoking all segments of the population, and physicians of all specialties, prevention of tobacco use and inform the public about the harmful effects of tobacco on health.
Just do not say you know about everything. In this revealing survey conducted by WHO. Asked about the consequences of tobacco use 22% of respondents found it difficult to answer. The result of tobacco use, consider: lung cancer - 35% of the population surveyed, bronchitis and other lung diseases - 25% of the respondents, 12% said cardiovascular disease, 6% - for TB.
According to 12% of respondents who quit smoking - easy, 56% believe that it is difficult, 4% believe that it is impossible, 28% did not think about it. Thus 21% of those questioned townspeople tried to quit, but mostly unsuccessfully.
It should be noted that in a good awareness of the harm of smoking to health, few of the townspeople try to get rid of nicotine addiction. Either the person does not realize the gravity of the consequences of tobacco use for their health, or believes that his illness will not affect, or the habit of smoking is so strong that it is not possible to abandon it