For people who are used to smoking, it is very difficult to quit smoking. Why? Smoking causes changes in the body and how you act or activity. Changing in the body is due to addiction or nicotine addiction. The changeing how to act or activity developed from time to time like buying a cigarette, lit it and inhaled. The changing becomes a habit or smoking habit. If you have a habit of smoking, a lot of things or events occur simultaneously visible at the time of smoking. These things include drinking a cup of coffee or drink alcohol, the feeling of being depressed or anxious, calling, driving, or driving to socialize with friends or the absence of activities that can be done by hand.
Smokers actually understand very well about the dangers of smoking to their health. But again, it is very difficult to quit smoking. Many diseases that was obtained from smoking. Among the good effects of smoking are not very visible is the smoker will experience weight loss due to reduced appetite. Why it is happened? Of cigarette smoke, the smoker makes him a lack of oxygen. The medical term for this is lack of oxygen hypoxia. In the long term, hypoxia can damage organs.
The air we breathe should be fresh air. But when we smoke, the air around so out of balance because more carbon (CO). As a result the oxygen we breathe a little, says DR. dr. Ari Fahrial, Sp.PD, Department of Medicine Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia (Faculty) / RSCM Jakarta.
Under these conditions according to Ari, many smokers do not realize. Hypoxia can also affect your appetite so that weight will be difficult to grow. When deprived of oxygen, the body to adapt by inducing an important molecular factor, the Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1a (HIF-a). This molecule is also affected in the gene are hungry, that leptin. So poor appetite, "he said when met after hearing his dissertation at the Faculty of medicine, Friday (07/15/2011). Apart from smoking, hypoxia can also be experienced by people who are at high altitude or chronic illness. Another study carried scientists from Yale University, USA, found that nicotine activates specific brain cells so that appetite.
Keywords : smoking, Changing, weight loss, reduced appetite, carbon (CO), DR. dr. Ari Fahrial, Sp.PD
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