Smoking increases risk of diabetes and also complicating it

In each smoked, the cigarette incorporates four thousand different substances into the body that cause inflammatory or oxidizing effects, but also increase blood glucose levels.

This is highlighted by the Head of the Tabaquismo and COPD Research Department of the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER), Raúl Sansores Martínez, who emphasizes that the compounds that tobacco releases when it is aspirated, only the nicotine creates dependence as it stimulates the productionof dopamine, a neurotransmitter that is related to sensations of well -being and reward.

The pneumologist warns that the nicotine addict has 60 percent more likely to develop diabetes, even if there are no family history of the disease, due to the increase in blood sugar levels when smoking tobacco.

The nicotine, which is easily absorbed by the bloodstream, changes the chemical processes in the cells so that they do not respond to insulin and let it in, a condition called insulin resistance.Other studies show that people who have diabetes and smoke need higher doses of the hormone to control their blood glucose.

Dr. Sansores Martínez mentions that nicotine also causes the smoker to be active, happy, not depressed and doping, so it works.

“There are predisposing factors for a subject to become addicted, some have to do with personality, with genetic history and perhaps the susceptibility of becoming addicted not only to a substance but several.Most of the time, who becomes addicted to cocaine, marijuana or alcohol before went to the nicotine.There are practically no addicts to illegal enervants other than smokers, ”emphasizes the specialist in smoking and addiction mechanisms.

However, the good news is that if a person stops smoking, blood sugar levels fall almost immediately, says the member of the National System of Researchers Level II.

“Nicotine addiction is a chronic disease, in the same way that diabetes is, therefore, permanent attention requires.In both cases, the pharmacological approach must be accompanied by the Medical Council, psychological or a social worker, but before a cardiopulmonary evaluation should be carried out. ”

Dr. Sansores Martínez says that the INER has the aid clinic to quit smoking, which among other services offers cognitive group behavioral of ten sessions.

“We do not start with the premise that they should quit smoking, because this puts patients in stress and is what we least want.If they continue the instructions they stop doing something that causes them a lot of damage and takes away ten years of life, ”says Sansores Martínez.

According to specialized reports, people who smoke have between 30 and 40 percent more possibilities to develop diabetes than those who do not smoke, and those who consume more than 20 cigarettes per day duplicate the probabilities.