Smoking Prevention and Cessation

Smoking was and remains one of the most important public healthcare issues. It is estimated that every year six million people die as a result of tobacco consumption. Several diseases are caused or worsened by smoking: different cancer types, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases and others. In this...

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description Smoking was and remains one of the most important public healthcare issues. It is estimated that every year six million people die as a result of tobacco consumption. Several diseases are caused or worsened by smoking: different cancer types, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases and others. In this book we describe the different toxic effects of smoke on the human body in active and in passive smokers. It is also well known that many people who smoke wish to quit, but they rarely succeed. Smoking prevention and cessation are of utmost importance, thus we also describe different strategies and aspects of these issues. We hope that this book will help readers to understand better the effects of smoking and learn about new ideas on how to effectively help other people to stop smoking.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1305042024-03-31T13:09:10Z Smoking Prevention and Cessation Rajer, Mirjana tobacco, inflammation, oxidative stress, lung cancer, endothelial dysfunction, physical activity thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine Smoking was and remains one of the most important public healthcare issues. It is estimated that every year six million people die as a result of tobacco consumption. Several diseases are caused or worsened by smoking: different cancer types, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases and others. In this book we describe the different toxic effects of smoke on the human body in active and in passive smokers. It is also well known that many people who smoke wish to quit, but they rarely succeed. Smoking prevention and cessation are of utmost importance, thus we also describe different strategies and aspects of these issues. We hope that this book will help readers to understand better the effects of smoking and learn about new ideas on how to effectively help other people to stop smoking. 2023-12-01T17:43:29Z 2023-12-01T17:43:29Z 2018 book ONIX_20231201_9781789846294_1613 9781789846294 9781789846287 9781838815745 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/130504 eng image/jpeg n/a https://www.intechopen.com/books/6589 https://mts.intechopen.com/storage/books/6589/authors_book/authors_book.pdf IntechOpen IntechOpen 10.5772/intechopen.71425 10.5772/intechopen.71425 78a36484-2c0c-47cb-ad67-2b9f5cd4a8f6 9781789846294 9781789846287 9781838815745 IntechOpen 126 open access
spellingShingle tobacco, inflammation, oxidative stress, lung cancer, endothelial dysfunction, physical activity
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine
Smoking Prevention and Cessation
title Smoking Prevention and Cessation
title_full Smoking Prevention and Cessation
title_fullStr Smoking Prevention and Cessation
title_full_unstemmed Smoking Prevention and Cessation
title_short Smoking Prevention and Cessation
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topic tobacco, inflammation, oxidative stress, lung cancer, endothelial dysfunction, physical activity
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine
topic_facet tobacco, inflammation, oxidative stress, lung cancer, endothelial dysfunction, physical activity
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine
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