The harms of smoking, smoking is the most lethal form of social poisoning. The health hazards are enormous.
Quitting smoking is the most important decision you can make to improve your quality of life and prolong your life.
The World Health Organization defines smoking as the most important preventable cause of disease. Approximately 4.9 million people die every year worldwide due to smoking. If the smoking epidemic continues as it is, this number is expected to reach 10 million by 2020.
Smoking is a major risk factor for increased malignant cholesterol, hypertension, heart disease and coronary artery disease, and increases the risk of heart attack by 2.5 times. With the weakening of the immune system, premature aging, susceptibility to all types of cancer, viral and bacterial infections occur. Smoking is the cause of 35% of all cancer-related deaths in men and 15% in women. Smoking shortens life expectancy by 14.5 years in women and 13.2 years in men.
Smoking addiction is a chronic brain disease characterized by permanent changes in brain cellular structure and functions and manifested by impulsive, irrepressible and repetitive smoking behavior. Like all other chronic diseases, it requires medical treatment and can last a lifetime if left untreated.
Almost all smokers want to quit, and they all know what a danger smoking is to their health, what a bad example it is to their children and loved ones, what a nuisance it is to non-smokers and how much financial loss it causes. Quitting smoking is really not an easy task.
Smoking addiction is scientifically addictive, even though smokers think they are not addicted. This is because the brain causes different reactions in the body when cigarettes are missing.
When the patient quits smoking, the brain, which has become addicted to cigarettes, reacts to this and the patient will experience
- Irritability
- Sleep disturbance
- Impaired concentration
- Dizziness
- Constipation
- Dry mouth
- Feeling of pressure in the chest
- Depression (Depressed mood and inability to enjoy anything)
- Decreased interest and desire, fatigue, decreased energy, exhaustion
- Difficulty concentrating and indecision
- Sleep disturbance
- Appetite disturbance
- Slowness or irritability in movement and speech
- Easy anger, intolerance
symptoms of the disease. These symptoms disrupt the patient's daily life comfort and cause discomfort to those around him/her. The patient starts smoking again with the effect of this negative picture.
However, when patients who receive medical treatment under the control of a doctor quit smoking step by step, it is very easy for them to quit smoking because they do not experience these negativities and they do not start smoking again.
Treatment Plan
The treatment method to be applied in NPİstanbul Smoking Cessation Polyclinic is completely personalized. The patient's treatment is individualized according to the patient's social life, eating habits, stress factors to which the patient is exposed, other concomitant diseases, and the presence or absence of other medications. The treatment scheme to be applied is planned completely individually. Personalized treatments tailored to the patient are carried out as medical treatments that fall within the treatment plans recommended by the World Health Organization and the American Cancer Institute.
Treatment Options
- Psychotherapy
- Nicotine replacement therapy Pharmacotherapy (medication)
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (tTMU) Treatment (with Psychiatry Consultation)
- Other methods
The treatment process in our smoking cessation outpatient clinic will last 2 months and this is a package program. In the first month, the patient will quit smoking step by step and in the second month, necessary measures will be taken to prevent the patient from starting smoking again.
It should not be forgotten that quitting smoking is not very difficult, what is very difficult is not to start smoking again.
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