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The effects of addictions are devastating. It is not only damage your physical and mental health, but they also affect your family and friends. Cigarette smoking is a disease in smokers. Smokers are far more likely to develop serious diseases, like lung cancer, than non-smokers. The risks for sudden infant death syndrome are increased among the infants of women who smoke during pregnancy. Smoking is also likely to put their babies at risk for poor lung development asthma and respiratory infections for pregnant women.

The health effects of tobacco smoking are related to direct tobacco smoking, as well as passive smoking. More men than women smoke. More men than women die of lung cancer. Twenty-four percent of pregnant women in Indiana in United State smoke cigarettes. Steroid abuse disrupts the normal production of hormones in the body, causing both reversible and irreversible changes. Through the addiction reduced sperm production and shrinking of the testicles. In the female body Breast size and body fat decrease, the skin becomes coarse, the clitoris enlarges, and the voice deepens and other sex hormones normally trigger. The high sex hormone levels can prematurely signal the bones to stop growing.
Hare are three way to effect your health

1-Psychological effects

Addiction usually disturbs a person's perceptions and attitudes and can disrupt their personality. The experience of addiction has an effect on a person's thinking and feeling, as well as the related behaviors. The psychological effects of addiction can be divided into feeling and thinking. Many of the feelings experienced in addiction derive from a sense of being unable to gain control of yourself or the use of the drug. Many of the thought patterns are defensive and work to protect the addiction.

2-Physical effects

The Physical effect causes by chemical abuse such as Alcohol, Cocaine, Nicotine, pirates, Solvents, Tranquillizers. The tobacco addict runs considerable risks to his physical health through his habit. The nervous system may be damaged at many levels. Cocaine raises blood pressure and also constricts blood vessels.

3-Effect on families

In normal situations, families try to take care of each other, especially in times of illness. The addict, meanwhile, needs to blame someone for their addiction and the family is usually the excuse given. Children will normally respond well to the healthier atmosphere. Family has developed its way of coping, which is a dependency in itself