"If you want to avoid further aggravation of the lung condition, it is advisable to quit smoking immediately. ”
"Doctor, this nodule has been removed, do you still have to quit smoking?"
Uncle Guo, a 60-year-old retired worker, has been a smoker since he was young, and often jokes when chatting with other people in his life: "I have hardly done things like smoking in my life, and I have persisted for decades." ”
is such a person who loves smoking so much, and in the past six months, he has often had coughing and phlegm. In the early stage of the uncomfortable symptoms, Uncle Guo thought it was a common cold, so he took some medicines by himself, but after eating for more than half a month, there was no effect, so he simply stopped eating, and slowly Xi the occasional uncontrollable cough.
Uncle Guo's son came home from work in other places and found that his father had a frequent cough, so he took his father to the hospital for treatment.
After examination, it was found that Uncle Guo's lungs had nodules with a diameter of about 6mm, and combined with the shape of the nodules and the patient's condition, it was suspected to be malignant, and it was recommended to surgically remove them as soon as possible.
After the operation, the doctor told Uncle Guo's family that the patient's lungs had appeared with large black deposits, and although the nodules had been successfully removed, if he continued to smoke, it was likely to continue to cause further lung lesions and even have a risk of cancer.
After listening to the doctor's words, Uncle Guo finally made up his mind to start quitting smoking! Let's take a look at what causes smokers' lungs to turn black, and if these people can successfully quit smoking, can their lungs return to their normal color?
Why do people's lungs turn black after smoking? The answer is obvious
We often see slogans in our lives, such as "smoking is burning your life, smoking is harmful to your health", although these slogans can be said to be "well-known", but it can be said that more than 80% of smokers do not take these words to heart, thinking that they will not have any bad conditions because of smoking.
In fact, many people don't know that smokers who have smoked for more than 3 years have developed different degrees of black sediment in their lungs.
Under normal circumstances, our lungs have two parts, left and right, and a large number of bubbles are distributed on its surface, which is the main place for ventilation and ventilation, and at the same time, the lung tissue can filter the gas entering the lungs and play a better role in defense.
The lungs of the human body are pale pink, and due to the effects of inhaling dust, polluting the air, etc., there may be lighter-colored, smaller-numbered black dots on the surface of the lungs of adults.
But for people who Xi have smoked for many years, they are perennially affected by thousands of tiny toxic carbon particles (including more than 60 carcinogens) such as nicotine, benzopyrene, tar and other substances released when cigarettes are burned, and these toxic wastes are stored in the vesicles of lung macrophages. Gradually, as the smoking age increases, the degree of "blackening" of the lungs gradually becomes serious, and finally becomes dark black.
After quitting smoking, can the lungs become "clean" and can the risk of cancer go down? It's not too late to know
Perhaps many "smokers" will quit smoking because they are afraid of their lives after seeing the comparison chart of normal lungs and smokers' lungs, thinking that after quitting smoking, the lungs can still regain their original color, and the chance of cancer will be reduced, but can quitting smoking really restore the lungs to their original state?
It also depends on the situation, because as we have already mentioned, the degree of "blackening" of the lungs varies greatly depending on the number of years of smoking. When they quit smoking, the cilia in the lungs will go into a working state and repair themselves, so for people who have smoked for a short period of time, it is still very likely that their lungs will return to their original color if they quit smoking as soon as possible.
But for people like Uncle Guo at the beginning of the article, who have smoked for decades, even if the cilia will be "automatically cleaned" after quitting smoking, it is almost impossible to return to pink because there are too many "harmful substances" deposited.
Seeing this, some people may wonder, since for people with a long "smoking age", quitting smoking is not likely to help restore color, so is there still a need to quit smoking? The answer is undoubtedly yes, of course.
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has published a survey data, researchers have followed more than 200,000 Americans for decades, and found that smokers have a 3-5 times higher risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, lung cancer, and respiratory diseases than other ordinary people, and life expectancy is also relatively reduced by 5-10 years.
In 2018, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute also published a data on the reduction of the risk of cancer after quitting smoking. The researchers selected more than 10,000 people from three different groups: smokers, ex-smokers, and non-smokers, and observed them for 30 years.
The final data showed that a total of 285 of these people were diagnosed with lung cancer, of which more than 95% were high-frequency smokers. Surprisingly, the risk of lung cancer in high-frequency smokers has also decreased by 39% compared with before after 4 years of quitting, and the probability of lung cancer continues to decrease as the quit time continues to prolong.
Therefore, no matter whether you have smoked for a long or short number of years, whether your addiction is big or small, now is the best time to quit smoking, and it can even be said that "quitting smoking" is "beneficial but not harmful" to your health. All smokers are advised to put quitting smoking on the agenda as soon as possible and take responsibility for their own health.
After quitting smoking, these 2 manifestations appear, congratulations, your body is slowly getting better
In fact, we have heard a lot of smokers shouting in our lives that they want to quit smoking, but for most people, this process is very "painful", and it is inevitable that some people will pick up cigarettes again after persisting for less than a week. However, for people with strong self-control, after they successfully quit smoking, they can intuitively feel the following benefits of quitting:
First of all, immunity has been significantly improved. I believe many people know that immunity is the body's own defense ability, which can help resist the invasion and recognition of foreign bacteria and viruses, and remove senescent and cancerous cells in the body.
Many smokers may not know that the harmful substances in smoke will greatly damage the body's T lymphocytes and natural killer cells (both belong to immune cells), and smoking will also produce a large number of free radicals, which will further affect and deepen the damage to immune cells.
Therefore, after people quit smoking, their immunity will naturally be greatly improved after staying away from these toxic and harmful substances produced by cigarette burning.
Secondly, the cardiovascular aspect is improved.
Studies have found that chemicals such as benzopyrene and tar in tobacco will have a significant negative impact on the inner wall of blood vessels, causing changes in the structure and function of blood vessels, and then causing an increase in blood pressure.
At the same time, these chemicals can also stimulate and damage heart muscle cells, leading to an increase in heart rate to a certain extent. Therefore, after quitting smoking, the body will gradually decrease its blood pressure and heart rate because of the influence of these substances, which greatly reduces the risk of stroke and heart disease.
In conclusion, smoking not only causes serious damage to the body's immune system, but also greatly affects the health of the lungs. Therefore, quitting smoking is one of the key measures to improve immunity and protect the lungs, although quitting smoking does not necessarily guarantee that the "darkened" lungs will recover as before, but there are experimental data that have confirmed that it can reduce the risk of cancer. Therefore, I appeal to everyone, for the sake of your own health, please strengthen your belief in quitting smoking, you will definitely be able to!
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