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100 Questions & Answers About How To Quit Smoking |
It slowly robs you of your health and wealth and also many of your life’s pleasure.
Smoking is an ancient ‘modernized’ lifestyle, started donkey years ago by ‘uncivilized’ tribes deep in the jungle of the earth long before the great explorer Columbus and other white men discovered the new world.
Smoking promises you a wide array of health problems including cancer, heart disease, stroke and lung disorders.
Here’s how smoking can ruin your body.
1. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Cigarette smoking is the main cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
COPD is a progressive and incurable disease in which the airways and lungs are damaged due to chronic bronchitis (inflammation of the tubes that carry air into the lungs).
If you are a COPD patient, you will be suffering from breathing difficulties which can leads to your death.
2. Osteoporosis
Cigarette smoking leads to decreased in bone density or osteoporosis.
When your bone becomes porous the risk of a fracture is higher and more complications occur taking longer time to heal.
3. Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) increases the risk of heart attack and stroke due to accumulation of fatty deposits on the inner walls of the arteries.
Atherosclerosis occurs more severely when you smoke.
4. Skin
Smoking speeds up your aging process and increases the appearance of premature wrinkles.
5. Angina pectoris
Smoking reduces the amount of oxygen circulating in your body.
Angina pectoris (chest pain) happens when your heart muscle doesn’t get enough oxygen during exertion.
Smoking makes your heart beat faster and increases oxygen demand, so your heart need to pump and worker harder.
6. Infertility
Cigarette smoking leads to infertility.
Male smokers tend to have lower sperm count and motility and also increased abnormalities in sperm shape and function.
Erectile dysfunction is common among smokers.
7. Stroke
The Framingham Heart Study has found that smoking 40 sticks of cigarette a day have twice the risk of stroke than smoking 10 sticks a day.
The good news is that after two years of quitting smoking, the risk of stroke fell significantly and within five years life goes back to normal as per non smokers.
8. Cancer
Smoking is a leading cause of cancer, especially of the lung, oesophagus, larynx (voice box), mouth, throat, kidney, bladder, pancreas, stomach and cervix.
Smoking can also causes acute myeloid leukaemia (a type of blood cancer).
9. Cholesterol
Tobacco smoke interacts with hypercholesterolaemia (high blood cholesterol) to greatly increase the risk for cardiovascular disease.
Besides that, smokers also have a low level of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol-the good cholesterol that helps to reduce plaque formation.
10. Heart attack
Tobacco smoke is one of the major risk factors for heart attack beside hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, obesity, diabetes and a sedentary lifestyle.
The risk of heart attack doubles for men who smoke a pack of cigarette a day and continues to smoke after a heart, risking a second attack.
11. Peripheral vascular disease (PVP)
Smoking constricts blood vessels. When this happens to the arteries carrying blood to the leg and arm muscles it is known as peripheral vascular disease (PVD).
A narrowed artery blocked by blood clot.
This leads to incessant infection or inflammation of a limb which require amputation if severe.
12. Circulation
The nicotine released by cigarette smoke increases blood pressure, heart rate and the amount of blood pumped by the heart.
It also increases blood flow in the arteries of the heart while constricting the arteries in the arms and legs.
Cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide which reduces the availability of oxygen in the blood, heart and other part of the body.
Tobacco smoke makes blood clot faster as well as multiplies blood clots in the body.
This puts the smoker at risk of cardiovascular diseases more so if you are also hypertensive.
Posted by: Mo Salle
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