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STOP smoking habit is not easy. However, that does not mean you can not do it. With discipline and motivation and a strong desire to stop smoking, is not impossible.

Bak addictive, cigarettes have been drugged a lot of people. So addictive, they are completely ignoring the dangers of cigarette smoke behind it. In fact, some people claim could not concentrate or exclude ideas without cigarettes. Yet, beneath it all cigarettes have become a cold-blooded killer. Do not believe it? Just look at the data from the Demographic University of Indonesia that was launched last year.

From the data specified number of active smokers in Jakarta is estimated at three million people or 35 per cent from 9.057 million citizens of Jakarta. Meanwhile, the total number of active smokers in Jakarta also rose 1 percent per year. Data also mentioned that in Indonesia there are 1172 people died per day because of diseases caused by cigarettes.

Tobacco or cigarettes kill half of all lifetime smokers and half of smokers die at the age of 35-69 years. The data in the world tobacco epidemic show tobacco kills more than five million people each year.

“If this continues, in 2020 is estimated to occur ten million deaths, with 70 percent occur in developing countries,” said Minister of Health Dr. Endang R Sedyaningsih MPH Dr PH in the speech read by Prof Dr Tjandra Yoga Aditama, Director General of MOH when opening P2PL Temu Karya Danger Warning Cigarettes Health will, in Jakarta, December 12, 2009.

In the future, health problems caused by smoking in Indonesia has become harder because two of the three men were smokers aktif.Lebih danger because 85.4 percent of active smokers to smoke in the home, with family members so that threaten the safety of environmental health. “In addition, 50 percent of Indonesia lack of physical activity and 4.6 percent alcohol,” said Minister of Health.

The fact also revealed that more than 43 million Indonesian children living with smokers and are exposed to tobacco smoke. In fact, children exposed to tobacco smoke may experience a slow lung growth, more susceptible to bronchitis and respiratory infections and ear and asthma. “Ill health at an early age causes of ill health in adulthood,” added Minister of Health.

Based on data from the Global Youth Survey in 2006, 6 out of 10 students (64.2 percent) of those surveyed, exposed to smoke for them at home. More than a third (37.3 percent) smoked, even 3 out of 10 students or 30.9 percent of first time smoking at age below 10 years.

According to the Minister of Health, increasing the number of smokers among young people anakanak and Indonesia as influenced incessant cigarette advertising, promotion, and sponsorship of cigarettes. In fact, cigarettes or tobacco can cause a variety of non communicable diseases, such as the heart and blood vessel disorders, stroke, lung cancer, and cancer of the mouth. In addition, smoking also causes a decrease in fertility, increased incidence of pregnancy outside the womb, fetal growth (physical and IQ) is slowing, strain on the pregnancy, the baby’s immune disorders, and increased perinatal mortality.

Eating cigarettes cause direct harm to smokers and their families, especially for poor families. The average expenditure of poor families to large cigarette consumption. “Instead of families to improve nutrition and education of children, even a limited income spent on cigarettes,” said Minister of Health.

She believed that the high population and consumption of cigarettes placed Indonesia ranks 5th highest tobacco consumption in the world, after China, the United States, Russia, and Japan, with an estimated consumption of 220 billion sticks in 2005.

“Let us create a clean environment and non-smoking, so that our young generation can grow and develop into complete human being, qualified, and ready to build our country,? Message Minister of Health.

“Approximately 70 percent of smokers want to quit, but only 5-10 percent that can do it without help,” explained psychological specialists from the General Hospital Friendship Dr. T Ginting Tribowo SpKJ. With psychological role in the emergence of enough smoke to someone, it is important attention and monitoring governance in the process of psychological stop smoking.

“Some forms of therapy can do for the addicts to quit smoking cigarettes is by counseling, increased motivation, cognitive and behavioral therapy, and others,? Explained Tribowo as a speaker in the Speech Night Parties Quitters Are the Champions, which was held Pfizer Indonesia, recently it.

Pulmonary Specialist Doctors and Vice Chairman of the Stop Smoking Clinic RSUP Friendship Dr SpP Agus Dwi Susanto said, the Asian population to quit smoking is for health reasons, which then is the family and economic reasons. “Approach to stop smoking is to conduct multidisciplinary approach, in which the initial capital must possess is motivation, intention, and commitment,” said Agus.

As one experienced by addicts who quit smoking cigarettes, Brahmantya Sakti. 33-year-old man was first admitted that he had a smoker for 17 years. Every day he was able to suck 20-30 stems per day. ? Life without tobacco is my new lifestyle,? he said.

All smokers must have in his heart knew that smoking was not any good. However, it takes more than a strong intention to quit, the support environment. Meanwhile, Indonesia’s environment is very supportive once for smoking. There is no supervision and decisive action, although the existing rules.

“And unfortunately, smoking has become the lifestyle needs and at all levels of society,” said Brahmantya.

Suggested Brahmantya addicts to change the lifestyle trends to not smoke. Brahmantya sure live without cigarettes could become a trend, lifestyle (lifestyle) which will be followed by a lot of people like the Blackberry become a trend in Indonesia. Or at least not for professionals or those who are well educated.

“The approach used in logic and spiritually, I believe, will be effective. Just need a group, or a private institution that do it consistently,” he said.