Passive smoking and homeopathy

We all know about the dangers associated with smoking but are we aware of how passive smoke undermines our health and quality of life? Regular exposure to other people’s tobacco smoke, also known as passive smoke, can threaten the health of nonsmokers. Smoke usually contains harmful cocktail of chemicals that will damage your health. At least half of the chemicals in a puff of smoke are carcinogenic, meaning they may cause cancer. It also contains carbon monoxide that reduces the oxygen absorbing properties of haemoglobin in the blood. This leads to depleted amounts of oxygen available to cells and tissues in the body. Cigarette smoke also contains nicotine, which is the highly addictive ingredient that makes smoking a hard habit to break.

Homoeopathic remedies can treat the various complications arising from inhaling passive smoke, although I would put more emphasis on limiting your exposure to smoke. Research is yet to unravel all the damaging effects of passive smoke, but some of the known risks include:

Passive smoke is associated with cancer of the lung, breast, cervix and bladder.
It is associated with ischemic heart disease, or heart disease caused by the narrowing of blood vessels that feed the heart.
Infertility in men and women can be traced to passive smoke.
Passive smoke also has detrimental effects on the health of babies and children causing asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia and middle ear infections.
It also gives rise to low birth weight in babies. As adults this makes them prone to strokes, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease and type II diabetes or non-insulin-dependent diabetes.

If you are thinking about giving up smoking homoeopathy can help, even if some stress or unresolved emotion is the underlying cause. Homoeopathic remedies such as Avena Sativum (Common Oat) Caladium Seguinum (American Arum) or Nux Vomica (Poison Nut) can remove the craving for tobacco and deal with withdrawal symptoms such as irritability, tremors or depression.

How You Can Avoid Passive Smoke

The way to limit your exposure to passive smoke is to stay away from it and keep your children away from it too.

Do not smoke in your home, in your car or around your children and don’t let others smoke in these places either.

You may believe that air conditioning helps to remove smoke, but it only serves to mask the visible smoke.

If you are pregnant do not smoke or expose yourself to passive smoke.

Limit exposure at work. If people are still allowed to smoke in your workplace, ask your employer to prohibit indoor smoking.

Encourage restaurants, shopping malls and other public establishments to enforce no-smoking policies.