{"id":22125,"date":"2024-09-03T20:55:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=22125"},"modified":"2024-09-03T20:55:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:55:32","slug":"health-report-highlights-smoking-risks-and-support-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/health-report-highlights-smoking-risks-and-support-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Report Highlights Smoking Risks and Support Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>By Tracy Romalho<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smoking continues to be a major health concern, with links to severe conditions such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tobacco products are known to contain harmful substances, including acetone, tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide, which can adversely affect the lungs and other organs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Bibi Ali, Head of the Respirology Clinic at Georgetown Public Hospital, discussed the chronic health issues associated with smoking, including persistent coughs among long-term smokers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to these risks, the Ministry of Health has introduced nicotine lozenges to help individuals quit smoking by reducing nicotine cravings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry is encouraging smokers to seek support and take steps to improve their health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tracy Romalho Smoking continues to be a major health concern, with links to severe conditions such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Tobacco products are known to contain harmful&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22126,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22125\/revisions\/22126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}