"Doctor help me, I'm only in my 40s, I don't want to die..."
Mr. Liu is 45 years old and works in the financial industry, and he usually has a lot of pressure, so he smokes fiercely.
In the past, he would smoke a cigarette and wake up as soon as he woke up in the morning, but recently, I don't know what happened, he coughed badly and his chest was painful, and he couldn't take any medicine, so he asked for leave to go to the hospital to have a look.
However, after a series of examinations such as chest CT, PET-CT, and fine needle aspiration of left supraclavicular lymph nodes, a cruel fact came - lung adenocarcinoma is in an advanced stage, and there have been multiple metastases throughout the body.
At this time, he remembered that his family had advised him to smoke less, saying that smokers have a short life, but he didn't expect it to be fulfilled so quickly, but it was too late to say anything at this time.
Because of the rapid development of the disease, Mr. Liu passed away less than a year after treatment, leaving only his wife and children to live in grief.
1. Do smokers live short? 50 years of investigation gives the truth
The British Medical Journal has published a study of smoking-related mortality in the international journal, and researchers have found that if smoking is started in early adulthood, it may increase age-specific mortality by a factor of two, and the risk of quitting smoking earlier is lower.
Researchers surveyed 34,439 male doctors in the UK over a 50-year period, and the final data showed that 11% of 70-year-olds who did not smoke lived to age 90, and smoking shortened life expectancy by an average of 10 years.
It is pointed out that smoking increases mortality, and the sooner you quit smoking, the better!
Second, a puff of cigarettes destroys the health of the whole body, don't "contribute" to health!
In 2019, China National Tobacco Corporation announced a total industrial and commercial tax profit of 1,155.6 billion yuan in the previous year, and a total of 1,000.08 billion yuan handed over to the national treasury.
In the first quarter of 2020 alone, the total industrial and commercial tax profit reached 1,205.6 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.3 percent, and the tax payment was 1,177 billion yuan.
You must know that the price of a pack of cigarettes is not expensive, and it can reach 1 trillion in taxes, which shows the large number of smokers in the mainland.
Zhang Yongsheng, chief physician of the Department of Respiratory Fever at the East Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, said that tobacco contains hundreds of harmful substances and more than 7,000 compounds, and is very carcinogenic.
According to the saying that smokers live 10 years shorter than non-smokers, then these smokers will receive 10 years less pension, which is equivalent to reducing the burden on the finances.
In addition, the tobacco industry not only generates good income, but also reduces pension and medical expenditures, from this point of view, smokers are really igniting themselves and illuminating others' "living Lei Feng".
Even if many people don't care about that pension, don't forget that smoking has such a high rate of cancer, not only lung cancer, but almost all common cancers are related to smoking, such as oral cancer, esophageal cancer, and stomach cancer......
In addition to the high risk of cancer, the role of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases should not be underestimated. Therefore, for the health of yourself and your family, it is better to quit smoking as soon as possible.
3. Is it dangerous to quit smoking at one time?2 ways to quit smoking may be harmful to your health!
Xiao Dan, director of the Tobacco Disease and Smoking Cessation Center of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, said that quitting smoking also pays attention to ways and means, and blind quitting may be harmful to health.
At present, there are two common forms of smoking cessation methods, "one-time quitting" and "gradual reduction", which one has a high success rate from a scientific point of view?
Some scientists in the United Kingdom have launched a control experiment on this, but the results have found that the success rate of "one-time quitting" is higher than that of the "gradual reduction group". Researchers say that quitting smoking starts with not smoking a cigarette in order to be better able to quit successfully.
As for the withdrawal reaction that everyone is worried about, the doctor said that it is a normal phenomenon, usually the strongest reaction is 2 weeks before quitting smoking, lasts for about 1 month, and then slowly disappears, of course, this time is also the easiest time to relapse.
Therefore, we must have perseverance to quit smoking, and try to avoid using the method of reducing the transition to numb ourselves, even if you smoke less, the harm to the body also exists, and you will never be able to quit smoking for a long time.
There are also people who feel that e-cigarettes are healthier and less harmful, and try to use e-cigarettes to "help quit smoking".
Dr. Tian Jing, the former attending physician of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Chengdu Military Region, said that the harm of e-cigarettes is underestimated, and e-cigarettes also contain nicotine, which can also affect the immune system, increase cardiovascular risk, and even cause apoptosis and cause a variety of cancers compared with traditional cigarettes.
Therefore, it is also necessary to pay attention to the ways and means to quit smoking, and once you decide to quit smoking, it is best to do it immediately. Quitting smoking is an important measure to protect your health, and the sooner you quit smoking, the better you can avoid health problems.
Resources:
[1] "Smoker, you have been "contributing" to society all your life!", Health Times.2020-12-11.
[2] "Quitting Smoking for 5 Years is Considered Successful!Attention Old Smokers: Do These to Avoid Relapse".Life Times.2021-10-20.
[3] "Tell the truth, e-cigarettes are not addictive can still help quit smoking?the truth is here".Popular Science China.2018-09-26.
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