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The polluter snuff and even when the cigarette was extinguished

A study published in the journal Pediatrics, researchers from Mississippi State University, United States, describes how to control smoke snuff remains even after the cigarette has been turned off, a phenomenon that is defined as "third-hand smoke.

"When you smoke, anywhere, toxic particles snuff the smoke get into your hair and clothes," says Jonathan Winickoff, director of the study. When you walk into contact with your baby, even if you're not smoking at the time, he comes into contact with toxins. And if you're breastfeeding, the toxins are transferred to baby through breast milk. "

Winickoff also argues that it is preferable that milk, milk that common, even though the mother is a smoker.
Within the snuff many particles that are toxic, 250 to be exact, including poisonous gases, chemicals, metals, etc... Many of them classified as group 1 carcinogens most dangerous or most likely to cause any type of cancer.

Children may be contaminated with these compounds not only because of secondhand smoke, or if someone is smoking nearby, but with the waste that has been what is called third-hand smoke. Thus the child who plays with the hair of a smoking mother, or that draws on the table where someone smoked, each playing something, even if their toys were where someone smoked before, this is harmful, and children more than in adults.

Why is it so hard to quit?

The majority of smokers have tried to quit once, and have returned. And certainly all know that smoking is difficult to leave the service of smoking. Because until you see a picture of someone smoking can be enough to stop those who want to leave their intentions, or if you already left, returning to resume the habit, says a new study.

CT of the brain of a smoker while smoking, and another 24 hours before he left show a marked increase in a particular type of brain activity when they have left the picture of someone smoking.

The brain region in question is the striatum, a region responsible for automatic responses, such as controlling the movements required to ride a bicycle or brushing your teeth.

This means that quitting would be outside the consent of the people, said Joseph McClernon, Duke University psychiatrist and director of the study.

"Only five percent of attempts to quit without help result in a successful abstinence," says McClernon. "Quitting smoking dramatically increases brain activity in response to see someone smoking, suggesting that quitting smoking sensitizes the brain to these stimuli to smoke." Which would explain why the majority of smokers who leave the service, then restart.

McClernon said that to help people leave the service of smoking not only has to resist the temptation to say that, but it will help them break this automatic response of your brain.