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...
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