​Do you currently smoke?

Tobacco use is one of the most clearly harmful risk factors for ill health. It is important to know whether you currently smoke in order to assess your health status.

​Select your preference

Among the options, please select the one you prefer most frequently.

​Frequency

Indicate whether the period of frequency of tobacco use, choose whether the frequency to be indicated is daily, weekly or monthly. These data will help us to correctly calculate your health indicators.

​How often?

Once you have determined the period, in this question please enter the number of times you use tobacco on average in the frequency of time indicated in the previous question. For example: 3 times a day.

​Degree of dependency

The questions associated with the Degree of Dependency are optional questions that may indicate a next level of information to learn more about the impact of this variable on your health status.

​Smoking

Among the risk factors, tobacco use is one of the most clearly detrimental to health. Smoking contributes to a variety of non-communicable diseases, including cancer, heart disease, stroke, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes. The greatest health risks occur in countries where smoking is widespread and where smokers consume large numbers of cigarettes.

In early April 2017, the Global Burden of Diseases Tobacco Risk Analysis Collaborators published a new report on smoking prevalence and the global burden of tobacco use in the Lancet. The good news from the report is that efforts to improve tobacco control have led to many success stories and reductions in smoking prevalence around the world. However, the report found that tobacco was the second leading risk factor for premature death and disability globally in 2015, causing 6.4 million deaths worldwide. Research on the global burden of disease has found that, over the past 30 years, smoking prevalence - the percentage of smokers in a population - has declined, but the number of cigarette smokers worldwide has increased due to population growth.

Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide. It causes more deaths per year than all of the following causes combined: HIV + Drug Use + Alcohol Use + Car Accidents + Firearm Injuries. It is not only the direct risk associated with its use, but smoking in turn increases the risk of death from all causes in both men and women.

And it's not just the risk of Lung Cancer, it also increases the risk of Coronary Artery Disease by 2 to 4 times, even those who smoke less than 5 cigarettes a day may have early signs of coronary artery disease, Smoking damages blood vessels by thickening their walls and narrowing their channel of circulation. It increases the risk of Cerebral Vascular Accident, which occurs when a clot occludes blood flow to an area of the brain, by 2 to 4 times, this type of blockage also occurs in the lower limbs of smokers. Smoking causes lung disease by damaging the airways and the small sacs (alveoli) where gas exchange occurs in the lung. Cigarette-induced lung disease includes Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) with its forms of Bronchitis and Emphysema, but also in asthmatics it worsens the severity of attacks, this tendency goes so far that smokers have a 12 times higher risk of dying from COPD than non-smokers. Smoking increases the risk of lung cancer 25 times in men and 25.7 times in women, but it is not only lung cancer. Smoking also increases the risk of other cancers: bladder, some forms of leukaemia, cervix, colon and rectum, oesophagus, kidney and urinary tract, larynx, liver, mouth and throat (including tongue, throat, palate and tonsils), pancreas, stomach and trachea. If you want to know more about its harmful effects, you can find out more by clicking here.