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Integral Treatment for Addiction to Tobacco


It is possible to give up smoking

Program Description

Diagnosis and treatment depending on patient’s dependence on tobacco carried out by a multidisciplinary team: pulmonologists, nursing staff and psychotherapists

  • Individualized treatment

  • Continuous medical care and monitoring

  • Learning the skills to deal with stress and anxiety

  • Support in case of relapse

  • Help with weight control

With your commitment and our help, you’re going to stop inhaling 4,700 chemicals!!

  • Acetone
  • Phenol
  • Benzene
  • Carbon monoxide
  • Hydrogen cyanide
  • Cadmium
  • Vinyl chloride
  • Arsenic
  • Ammonia
  • Butane
  • Naphthalene
  • Methanol
  • Nickel
  • Methane
  • Hydrazine
  • Formaldehyde
  • Toluene
  • Polonium

Smoking is a chronic illness that requires specific treatment. This is due to the addictive factors in the substances that are in in tobacco.

Smoking is related to the private, personal part of one’s life, although it begins in one’s social life. At the Integral Tobacco Addiction Treatment Unit we take care of all aspects of the effects of smoking on a smoker– physical, psychological and emotional.

New, highly effective, multi-component treatments are personalized and adapt to the profile of each individual smoker.

  • You will no longer be under the thumb of an addiction (nicotine).
  • Your health general will improve and you’ll feel better almost as soon as you put the last cigarette out.
  • Your blood pressure and pulse will decrease to normal levels about 20 minutes after smoking the last cigarette.
  • Your blood nicotine level will halve and your blood oxygen level will normalize after 8 hours.
  • After 24 hours your risk of sudden death has dropped and carbon monoxide has been eliminated from your blood.
  • Your lungs begin to clear themselves of cigarette residue.
  • 2 days later, THERE IS NO LONGER ANY NICOTINE IN YOUR BODY, your senses of taste and smell normalize and are enhanced.
  • You’ll be breathing easier by the third day.
  • Between the first and third month your capacity to do physical activity will increase and you won’t get winded so easily.
  • Your lungs will drain will get better and the risk of infection will be reduced after some 1-9 months.
  • After a year, the risk of a heart attack is halved in comparison that of a smoker.
  • The risk of cardiovascular disease is the same as that of a non-smoker after 5 years.
  • There will be less risk of getting cancer than for a smoker.
  • Your physical appearance and general esthetics will improve.
    • Bad breath goes away.
    • Your clothes and house will smell fresher.
    • Yellow stains will fade from your hands and nails.
    • Your skin will be better hydrated and you’ll tend to have fewer wrinkles.
  • Your economy will be healthier.
    Calculate your annual saving by multiplying what you spend daily on tobacco by 365 days.
  • You’ll be a good example for your children, family, friends and so on.
    • You’ll be helping to prevent the addiction to tobacco.
    • You be helping others to take the same, the right decision.
Folleto tratamiento integral del tabaquismo