Many people know that smoking is harmful to health, but they still can't resist the temptation of cigarettes. Recently, a 40-year-old smoker in Taizhou tasted the bitter fruit of smoking.
Master Wang, 55, has been smoking since he was around 15 years old, one to two packs a day. Recently, he always coughed and shortness of breath, and his family was relieved to take him to the hospital for a check-up. This investigation has found a problem.
Daniel Zhang, director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine at the Fourth People's Hospital of Taizhou, said: "At first, we thought he might be just an ordinary pneumonia or acute bronchitis. A lung function test was done on the patient and it was found that the patient's lung function had dropped by two-thirds. ”
After further examination, the doctor found that Master Wang had combined severe pulmonary heart disease and chronic respiratory failure. Doctors analyze that this is all a disease caused by smoking. Doctors remind that smoking will not only damage our lungs, increase the incidence of lung cancer, but also cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Long-term smoking is even more damaging to the central nervous system.
Daniel Zhang said: "Patients who smoke for a long time must quit smoking as soon as possible. We say that it is not too late to quit smoking no matter when it starts, and the earlier you quit smoking, the less the impact on the body. ”
(Jiang Xiaopeng, Cheng Yun, TaizhouTai report)
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