American researchers claim that smoking habit depends on the color of hair and skin. What it is darker, the more a person is located to nicotine dependence.
American researchers from the University of Pennsylvania say that black and even dark-haired people are much easier to sit down on cigarettes than the blond. And, consequently, the disease associated with smoking, they found much more frequently and in more severe forms.
What is so special about the color of hair and skin, and why is it so affects our willpower? Doctors blame the pigment melanin, which gives a dark shade of our hair. It can be manufactured in the body naturally, or may appear after tanning. According to their research, the high level of this substance causes the person addicted to tobacco.
"We found that the concentration of melanin is directly related to the number of cigarettes that men smoked per day and the level of nicotine addiction and nicotine on the body" - quoted Medlinks study author Gary King.
According to one version, the biochemical composition of melanin is similar to the composition of nicotine. On the other hand, the pigment is able to bind with nicotine, because of what he accumulates in the body faster and longer rests in the tissues of the body. This, in turn, leads to a rapidly evolving and highly dependent, as well as more serious health consequences. So, if the blonde to "sit down", would have to smoke for a long time and regularly, dark enough to indulge - and give up cigarettes, he no longer able.
"People with more melanin prone to a certain type of use of nicotine - addiction - hence they are more likely to be encountered health problems that arise due to smoking - continues to King. - The dependence of these people may be more severe than people with fair skin.
In the course of his investigation the Americans have collected data on 150 black smokers. In the questionnaire participants indicated their normal cigarettes a day and answered questions about their degree of nicotine dependence. At the second stage, scientists measured the participants' level of substance cotinine. This product is nicotinic exchange in the body, by the presence and quantity of which is determined by nicotine addiction. Finally, these figures were compared with the level of melanin in the subjects.
However, until scientists make conclusions very carefully. The data obtained are in need of clarification and correction, we need follow-up study.
Studies conducted in different seasons and in different geographical areas, will help to eliminate the influence of seasonal factors, such as sunburn. In addition to the level of nicotine could potentially influence alcohol consumption, physical activity, diet, amount of fat tissue, the level of stress. "All these factors should be taken into account in future studies," - said King.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
How I quit smoking without any books and lotions
I smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for several years. Smoked before breakfast and after dinner. In the plane, in the car on the train.
At university I ran to the smoking room in the middle of the lecture. Hardly diploma course, I like scalded with boiling water, ran into the yard, not even sharing his impressions with tomivshimisya audience peer under the door.
And once on a business trip on a military airfield in Yakutia lit, sitting on a barrel of kerosene (I have no idea how to play with fire, because he did not know that there, in a barrel).
In the evenings, trying rubbed away with a piece of soap yellow plaque with fingers and zazhevat some way to the nasty feeling of kitty litter in his mouth, I wanted to leave a stupid habit. Even painted once on a sheet of graph paper, which will reduce the number of cigarettes per day. But with each new morning - again, click the Swedish lighters and a little lightheaded after the first delay.
Why could not I stop? Perhaps it was a pity to part with smoke, brightens up the working day. It's a whole ceremony! It is not helped any agreement with his friends "thrown together", or all sorts of substitutes for nicotine in abundance sold in pharmacies and stalls.
Each time, smoking herbal cigarettes without nicotine (the manufacturer said that so you can unlearn the drug, but with the psychological dependence is then the right), I spit it with the wild-loathing. Whether business - fighting throat strong "Gitanes" without the filter. Well, or at least regular Marlboros.
Penultimate my attempt to quit smoking - a fashionable book Alain Carr. I began reading and stopped at the 17 th page. And not because I was scared.
Simply become ... boring. I imagined that almost all 200 pages of just me and will brainwash and zombie ... Ugh, how disgusting.
If they do not help a magic book, so hopefully more than anyone. Month I was ready, chose to part with a cigarette the day before the long weekend, so do not be tempted to working smoking room. Said to himself: "I do not want!" ...
's All. Neither lomok, nor torment, nor Jora at night. Only eat candy at first, to reassure reflexes. But this habit a couple of weeks got rid of.
Since then, I do not smoke already 2,5 years. I know for sure: when the smoker justifies his habit or fear rastolstet that fears of a nervous breakdown, this man is deceiving in the first place itself.
In fact, quitting is easy. Do not need no book, no assistance to drug addiction, or a health warning, not even a smoker's throat pictures on the cover of a pack of cigarettes. One needs only desire. But when he is not - nothing will help.
At university I ran to the smoking room in the middle of the lecture. Hardly diploma course, I like scalded with boiling water, ran into the yard, not even sharing his impressions with tomivshimisya audience peer under the door.
And once on a business trip on a military airfield in Yakutia lit, sitting on a barrel of kerosene (I have no idea how to play with fire, because he did not know that there, in a barrel).
In the evenings, trying rubbed away with a piece of soap yellow plaque with fingers and zazhevat some way to the nasty feeling of kitty litter in his mouth, I wanted to leave a stupid habit. Even painted once on a sheet of graph paper, which will reduce the number of cigarettes per day. But with each new morning - again, click the Swedish lighters and a little lightheaded after the first delay.
Why could not I stop? Perhaps it was a pity to part with smoke, brightens up the working day. It's a whole ceremony! It is not helped any agreement with his friends "thrown together", or all sorts of substitutes for nicotine in abundance sold in pharmacies and stalls.
Each time, smoking herbal cigarettes without nicotine (the manufacturer said that so you can unlearn the drug, but with the psychological dependence is then the right), I spit it with the wild-loathing. Whether business - fighting throat strong "Gitanes" without the filter. Well, or at least regular Marlboros.
Penultimate my attempt to quit smoking - a fashionable book Alain Carr. I began reading and stopped at the 17 th page. And not because I was scared.
Simply become ... boring. I imagined that almost all 200 pages of just me and will brainwash and zombie ... Ugh, how disgusting.
If they do not help a magic book, so hopefully more than anyone. Month I was ready, chose to part with a cigarette the day before the long weekend, so do not be tempted to working smoking room. Said to himself: "I do not want!" ...
's All. Neither lomok, nor torment, nor Jora at night. Only eat candy at first, to reassure reflexes. But this habit a couple of weeks got rid of.
Since then, I do not smoke already 2,5 years. I know for sure: when the smoker justifies his habit or fear rastolstet that fears of a nervous breakdown, this man is deceiving in the first place itself.
In fact, quitting is easy. Do not need no book, no assistance to drug addiction, or a health warning, not even a smoker's throat pictures on the cover of a pack of cigarettes. One needs only desire. But when he is not - nothing will help.
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