Many smokers can feel the damage caused by smoking to the body, such as long-term cough, phlegm, often chest tightness, and severe breathing on several floors.
But even if there are many physical problems, there are many smokers who are "unrepentant" and feel that they have been smoking for many years, is it really meaningful to quit smoking?
As a surgeon, patients are advised to quit smoking before surgery.
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Having smoked for many years, does it really make sense to quit?
Any organized organism must breathe as long as there are still signs of life, exhale carbon dioxide from the body, inhale oxygen in the air, and carry out metabolism to maintain normal life activities. People who do not smoke can inhale a large amount of fresh air every day; while people who smoke regularly do not enjoy the blessings of nature, and inhale not fresh air, but toxic gases polluted by smoke.
After quitting smoking, our lungs will not return to being as healthy as they were before we smoked. But quitting smoking has very big benefits, and the lungs can repair themselves for a long time after quitting smoking.
People who have been smoking for less than 10 years often do not have any symptoms of discomfort, but some indicators of small airway function, such as MTT, have been abnormal. After several months of quitting smoking, these indicators gradually returned to normal, and eventually there was no significant difference compared with non-smokers.
People who have smoked for more than 10 years have more obvious abnormal lung function, and it is directly proportional to the time and quantity of smoking. At this time, if you quit smoking, most of the lung function indicators can not fully return to a healthy state, but compared with people who continue to smoke, there will still be a significant improvement.
In fact, even if it is a super old smoking gun that has smoked for more than 40 years, as long as the lung function has not failed, smoking cessation can bring about an improvement in lung function. Therefore, smoking cessation with old smoking guns can also improve lung function.
This shows that early smoking lung damage is reversible, so the sooner you quit smoking, the better.
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At what age can I quit smoking at the latest, and my lungs can still be restored to health? Doctor: Preferably not to this age
For smokers, there is no such thing as the best age, as long as you want to quit smoking, at any time, at any grade, you should take action and strengthen your willpower. Only timely smoking cessation success can make your body get the best conditioning.
Of course, for some old smokers, if they successfully quit smoking before the age of 35, give lung function 10 years, lung function may be able to return to the previous state.
Studies have shown that if you can quit smoking before the age of 35, the body will eventually recover almost as much as a non-smoker. Accidentally smoking another cigarette on the way to quit smoking, in fact, it is not necessarily bad, think about how much to smoke if you don't quit smoking! At this time, you can't regret it, you can't be discouraged, you can't be discouraged, find the reason in time, and no longer relapse to minimize the "loss"!
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What happens to the body after quitting smoking?
1-2 days: It will benefit the use of oxygen by cells throughout the body. The smoker's bronchus begins to relax within 72 hours, and the ability to breathe increases accordingly.
1-2 weeks: Pulmonary villi regeneration.
1 month: When general anesthesia surgery is done, the effect of significantly reducing lung complications can be achieved
Quit smoking for 3 months: The itchy feeling of facing cigarettes has been very weak. The respiratory system, cardiovascular system, and brain system have all been greatly improved, and they can't stand the smell of smoke at first, and they feel very sick when they smell smoke.
Quit smoking for 1 year: Smoking has been completely removed from your life, and without being reminded, you have completely forgotten the fact that you were a smoker. Both the body and the state of mind have been greatly changed, and the drowsiness of smoking has been replaced by energy and clarity of thought.
Quit smoking for 10 years: the risk of lung cancer is half that of normal people, and the risk of other cancers such as esophageal cancer, laryngeal cancer, oral cancer, and pancreatic cancer will also decrease.
Quit smoking for 15 years: The risk of coronary heart disease is similar to that of people who have never smoked.
Quitting smoking is imperative, and smoking-free living is simple
Smokers who have experienced smoking cessation will deeply feel the difficulty of quitting smoking, and it is difficult to quit smoking because of the problem of "smoking addiction". The greater the addiction, the harder it is to quit.
However, once smokers can persist and successfully quit smoking, their health will change well, and when a person successfully quits smoking, it will be even more impressive, after all, the addiction of nicotine is not to be underestimated.
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