The effect of cognitive behavioral therapy in reducing the phenomenon of smoking

Abstract

The report of the World Health Organization in the 77th session of the Executive Council indicates that smoking leads to 90% of all cases of lung cancer and 75% of all cases of chronic bronchitis, in addition to its definite contribution to causing narrowing of the heart. arteries, and thus angina pectoris and strokes. .What increases the risk of smoking is that it not only harms the users, but the smoker pollutes the environment around him and severely harms non-smokers, and a confirmed scientific fact has been reached that the smoker inhales only about (15%) of the contents of the cigarette while exhaling (85%) from the tip Burned to the air to be inhaled by others, which is called passive smoking, that is, it forces those around it to smoke, and thus the harm is transmitted to innocent others, And medical statistics indicate that children of parents or a father who smoke have an increased incidence of common cold, article (4) times their peers (