Smoking cigarettes releases over 4000 chemicals. These chemicals are released one place?inside you! Contained in the smoke that is released is tar. Tar is released in you and other people. Tar is what remains of the smoke when the nicotine and water have been removed. Tar contains many carcinogens that are known to cause cancer. This tar and other toxins like carbon monoxide damage your health by causing cancer and cardiovascular disease.
The chemicals contained in cigarettes include:
acetic acid - (Ethanoic acid) Active ingredient in vinegar; used in food preservation.
Acetone - a volatile, fragrant, flammable liquid ketone used primarily as a solvent and also in organic synthesis.
Ammonia - a colourless, pungent, water soluble gas made up of nitrogen and hydrogen.
Arsenic - a white powdered poisonous trioxide
Butane - a mixture of hydrocarbons
Cadmium - a bluish-white, malleable and toxic metallic element
DDT/deildrin - a potent insecticide used for the prevention of malaria
Ethanol - a fuel additive
Formaldehyde - a preservative used by anatomists, embalmers, and pathologists
Hexamine - preservative created by formaldehyde and ammonia.
hydrogen cyanide - a highly poisonous gas or volatile liquid that smells like bitter almonds
methane - an odourless, colourless, flammable gas
methanol - a poisonous volatile inflammable liquid
naphthalene - allergic skin reactions and cataracts, alters kidney function and is extremely toxic to children
nicotine - an addictive drug
nitrobenzene - a poisonous, yellow, insoluble oil
stearic acid - an emolient, emulsifier and thickener
toluene - a solvent in cosmetics
vinyl chloride - a substance used to make plastics
You may have heard of some of these chemicals before because they have other uses and this tends to make them sound even less appetizing than if you are just hearing of them for the first time. Cigarettes also contain the following metals: aluminium, copper, gold, lead, magnesium, mercury, silicon, silver, titanium and zinc. The list of known cancer-causing agents in cigarettes includes: benzo(a)pyrene, B-napthylamine, cadmium, crysenes, dibenz acidine, nickel, P.A.H.S., polonium 210, toudine, urethane, nitrosamines and N. nitrosomes. Each time a smoker inhales they are taking the chemicals mentioned above into their lungs, along with harmful gasses like carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide.
If you are wondering how smoking a cigar compares to a cigarette, consider that one cigar contains as much tobacco as an entire packet of cigarettes! Cigar smoke contains the same hazardous concoction of chemicals as cigarette smoke and a one cigar-a-day habit exposes the smoker to the equivalent damage done by a pack-a-day of cigarettes. Even those cigar and pipe smokers who do not inhale absorb the nicotine through the lining of the mouth. This does mean that the blood concentrations of nicotine peak more slowly than occurs when you inhale the smoke.
So, how in the world do you stop? There are some natural methods to quit smoking. I'm sure after reading this you are looking for the most natural way to replace those chemicals. Of course the most natural way is to quit COLD TURKEY. Now, let's be realistic. The next best way is with a natural product such as CigArrest.
CigArrest Chewable Tablets and Gum have helped many people quit smoking. The 30 day supply chewable CigArrest tablets can help you conquer the urge to smoke whenever the urge strikes. The chewable tablets are the original blueprint developed by CigArrest. CigArrest also has a 30 day supply of gum. The gum will help manage your cravings and restore the oral fixation of smoking.
The Cigarrest formula contains a mixture of herbal ingredients to carefully treat your smoking tendency. The active ingredients are all-natural and are the equivalent in the tablets, the gum and the lozenges. The ingredients in Cigarrest work to make the smoker feel more comfortable while trying to quit. They relieve the anxious tension, touchiness and those cravings most people correlate with trying to quit smoking.
The CigArrest product contains: Lobelia inflate, Cinchona officinalis, Daphne indica, Plantago major, Calcarea phosphorica and Nux vomica. These herbs pooled together in CigArrest are what helps you accomplish your goals to quit smoking.
The length of time you stay on the CigArrest program will depend on your smoking activities and your commitment to stopping. In addition, a CigArrest smoking counselor is available to help you should you want help.
The CigArrest line up has been sold for over 20 years and throughout that time they have not had any severe reactions or negative side-effects ever reported. The CigArrest product is safe.
I Feel Really Bad
And with the recent mantra that "Content is King" being repeated everywhere, many website owners are scrambling to find helpful and informative articles to include on their site or blog.
While there's no doubt that having your articles published on dozens or even hundred of sites will create name recognition for yourself and strengthen the public's view of you as an expert in your industry, there is a black cloud that has arisen in the area of your published articles increasing your standings in search engine results.
That cloud is called "Googlewashing"...
To clean up their search results Google has really started cracking down on duplicate content. This means that if you have your original article published on your website, but it is also included in the content of dozens of other sites, you could conceivably be decreasing the chances of your website showing up in the top rankings of search results for your article's keywords.
For example, let's say that you've written an article titled, "How to Groom Your Purple Poodle". You submit the article to article directories and ezine publishers giving permission for your article to be republished. 50 other webmasters and blog publishers with content that targets Purple Poodle owners like the article and decide to put it on their site.
This is great right? You're creating name recognition for yourself and your company and establishing yourself as an expert among people that own Purple Poodles.
But hold on Hoss, that upside could have a downside when it comes to pleasing the "search engine gods".
What if among those 50 webmasters that published your article is Mr. "my site has been number one in the search engines for Purple Poodles for the last year".
Your site shows up as number 22.
Now, when someone goes to Google and types in, "How to Groom a Purple Poodle" - whose website do you think is going to show up first in the search results with your article?
Most likely, it won't be yours... even though YOU are the expert who wrote the article.
But is that as bad as it sounds?
Of course we all want our site to rank high in the engines for our chosen keywords, and most webmasters do everything possible to have that happen, but in reality the majority of those reading this may never experience a top ten ranking.
But don't despair for all is not lost, at least when it comes to website traffic.
In my humble opinion, traffic is gold - as long as it is targeted traffic - regardless if it comes from folks finding my site through a search engine, or by clicking a link to my website that I have included in the byline or resource box within my articles that are being published on other sites.
It is those theives that use your articles WITHOUT acknowledging who the true author is that you have to look out for... but that's another article.
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