Write about negative influence of active and passive smoking on a human body practically everywhere including on cigarette packs. Most often it is possible to hear that this addiction becomes the cause of lung cancer and other oncological diseases, and much less often people think that negative impact of smoking first of all affects functioning of a brain.
Smoking and work of the central nervous system
At inhalation of tobacco smoke, carbon monoxide – the substance damaging a vascular wall gets to blood. Further on this damaged site platelets and lipids "cling", forming an atherosclerotic plaque. In process of growth the plaque narrows a vessel gleam more and more, breaking blood circulation. Thus, the main negative from smoking is a development of atherosclerosis.
At smokers the atherosclerosis affects a set of vessels of a brain of average and small caliber. Because of deterioration in blood circulation the nervous cages have oxygen starvation and deficiency of nutrients that leads to their premature death. Negative impact of smoking on a brain of the person is expressed in development of encephalopathy – the general deterioration in work of a brain. Symptoms of such state following:
- memory impairment;
- decrease in working capacity;
- violation of concentration of attention;
- headaches;
- dizzinesses;
- depression;
- suicide bents;
- weak-mindedness.
Other negative consequences of smoking
As atherosclerosis affects not only cerebral vessels, but also vessels and other bodies, at smokers the arterial hypertension, coronary heart disease, heart attacks, gastritis, stomach ulcer of a stomach and a 12-tiperstny gut, erectile dysfunction and infertility are much more often observed.
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