{"id":1563,"date":"2023-11-20T10:12:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T09:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caisalud.com\/does-smoking-damage-my-hearing\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T10:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T09:25:17","slug":"does-smoking-damage-my-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caisalud.com\/en\/does-smoking-damage-my-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Does smoking damage my hearing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1563\" class=\"elementor elementor-1563 elementor-903\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-24590ab e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"24590ab\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;,&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;boxed&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e720b4b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e720b4b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 29-01-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>The fact that smoking also damages hearing is something we all already knew, as it seriously harms our entire health.<\/p>\n<p>But now there are studies that support it, and we tell you about it from our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caisalud.com\/en\/\"><b>Hearing Centre in Alicante<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, several studies have confirmed that smoking is also bad for our hearing, although not always.<\/p>\n<p>We observed that both <b>passive and active smokers<\/b> are affected and their chances of hearing loss increase above the population.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8680818 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"8680818\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;,&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;boxed&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f8b22bb elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f8b22bb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 29-01-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Smoke exposure time\n<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-64fbdea elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"64fbdea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The most recent study concludes that people who spend more than 10 hours near smoke increase their chances of hearing loss by <b>more than 60%<\/b> and having to wear a hearing aid.<\/p>\n<p>This research shows that the risk decreases markedly with smoking cessation. But well, with a bit of common sense, this was already intuited by our <b>hearing aid specialists in<\/b> <b>Alicante<\/b>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-186027e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"186027e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;,&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;boxed&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-495bea5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"495bea5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Author of the study\n<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9fe5359 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9fe5359\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Huanhuan Hu, Ph.D., of the Japanese National Center for Global Health and Medicine, is the author of the lead study, which he said:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Thanks to the large sample size of participants, the long follow-up period and the objective assessment of hearing loss, our study provides compelling evidence that tobacco use is a risk factor for hearing loss&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From Cai Salud, we know that ear specialists tell us, cigarette smoke could affect the flow of the small vessels in the ear, preventing oxygen from reaching them and causing them to malfunction.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a361bd7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a361bd7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;container_type&quot;:&quot;flex&quot;,&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;boxed&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-415592c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"415592c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Smoking is harmful\n<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fa68383 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fa68383\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Yes, harm, we know it harms, but how?<\/p>\n<p>The damage caused by smoking has been shown to be different from the damage caused by <b>ageing<\/b> or exposure to loud noise.<\/p>\n<p>It is for this reason, and much more, that our Hearing Care Professionals launch an appeal to society in general, about the need not to smoke and to take care of their general health.<\/p>\n<p>We also remind you that, for any hearing loss you may notice, do not hesitate to consult us at our &nbsp; Hearing Centres in Alicante, Calpe and Torrevieja.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that smoking also damages hearing is something we all already knew, as it seriously harms our entire health. But now there are studies that support it, and we tell you about it from our Hearing Centre in Alicante. Indeed, several studies have confirmed that smoking is also bad for our hearing, although not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categorizar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caisalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caisalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caisalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caisalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caisalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caisalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"https:\/\/www.caisalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caisalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caisalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caisalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caisalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}