Quit smoking
Quit smokingYOU CAN QUIT SMOKING
Dr.Sayeed Akhtar
Chief Medical Officer.
Central Institute of Psychiatry. Ranchi
Cigarettes are full of poison. Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals as well as tar and nicotine, There is also the gas carbon monoxide, ammonia and arsenic. At least 43 of the chemicals in tobacco smoke are known to cause cancers of the lung, throat, mouth, bladder and kidney. Tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of other cancers. Nnicotine is the addictive drug in tobacco, and the mixture of nicotine and carbon mono oxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels. This can cause heart attack and stroke. It slows your blood flow cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers end up having their limbs amputated.
Tar coasts your lung like soot in chimney and causes cancer. A 20 a day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year changing to low tar cigarettes doesn’t help because smoker usually take deeper puffs and hold the smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper in their lungs.
Carbon mono oxide robs your muscles, brain, and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body specially your heart work harder, over time; your airways swell up and less air into your lungs.
There is enough reason why you should quit smoking. It causes disease like Emphysema (rots lungs, vulnerable to get repeated bronchitis and heart and lung failure), Lung cancers, heart disease. Stroke etc. Smoking makes it harder to do exercise/w and reduces the benefits to your body. Giving up smoking may save you money Rs 3000-5000 every year (depending on the brand you smoke). Skin starved of oxygen by smoking looks gray and dry. Wrinkles develop earlier and it stains your teeth and finger. Quitting smoking may help find a new appearance for you. Men who smoke May sometimes suffer from impotence due to damage to the vessels of the penis. Women who smoke take long period to conceive and often have miscarriage. Babies born to mothers who smoke actively or even passively are more likely to be premature, stillborn or die immediately after birth.
There are enough reasons why you should quit smoking. If you plan for this, first understand your nicotine addiction. Nicotine produces different effect on body. After a puff, you feel relaxed and good for a moment and two. As they continue to smoke, their body learns to depend on nicotine, and they smoke increasingly. When smokers stop, most of them craving, they feel irritable, anxious, restless and they find it hard to focus on any task.
Some of the important reason why people smoke are emotions; feeling stressed, upset, angry or frustrated; pleasure, social or peer pressure, habit and as apart of nicotine addiction 9to ameliorate any withdrawal symptoms or craving)
When you plan to quit smoking, visit your doctor, if you have any health worry. It is always good to have a friend or workmate who also wants to quit. Set a date for quitting
It is always helpful to tell your family and friends that you plan to quit and explain them how they can help and encourage you. Clean up the day before your quit day. Check your cupboards, house, car, and workplace and throw out cigarettes, lighters and ashtrays. There are two methods to stop smoking. First, cold turkey method; when you suddenly stop, and secondly; slowly cutting down.
There are reasons to believe that the cold turkey methods have better results. Some recovery symptoms (withdrawal symptoms), like craving, headache, restlessness, irritability, sleep problems, increase in appetite etc will come off and on. When you have craving; delay the urge to smoke. After sometime this urge to smoke weakens. Deep breathe and drinking water helps to lessen craving. It is advisable to engage yourself in some other [pursuit; go far a walk, listen to music or just ring up one of your intimate friends. Congratulate yourself every time you beat the urge to smoke. Beware, you will be offered cigarettes by your friends. Reuse it; know how to say ‘No’. Are you worried with empty hand? Have keys, beads, and pen or just keep it active.
When you are non-smoker, announce to all and everybody. The worst is over. Know how to deal with emotion and stress and know how to deal with urges. Be careful, you may be going along Ok, and suddenly you feel like smoking. When you know all these, it helps you not to fall to urges. Think of yourself as anon-smoker from the moment you quit .now you will have
In addition, there are person who cant quit himself or herself, get professional help from a de-addiction center. In the city, it is in the Central institute of psychiatry.