Nowadays, there are more and more people who smoke, and they are getting younger and younger, from ordinary cigarettes to fine cigarettes, from popping cigarettes to e-cigarettes, the audience of smoking is becoming more and more extensive, and even many minors are willing to pay for expensive popping cigarettes and e-cigarettes.
Light a cigarette and between breaths, thousands of chemicals and more than 70 carcinogens enter your lungs.
Year after year, smokers' lungs are thickly colored with tar and other harmful substances, as if they had been blackened, and at the same time exude a deadly and dangerous aura.
It is well known that smoking is harmful to health, but once smokers are infected, they still can't resist the temptation of cigarettes and will not easily quit smoking.
In fact, what seems to be a short-term enjoyment can bring a moment of pleasure, but it contains huge health risks. Smokers may not know that such a small cigarette after cigarette can really have the power to devour life.
Let's first understand what harm smoking causes to our body?
1. Respiratory diseases
When smokers smoke, the respiratory system is in direct contact with the carcinogens in tobacco, so the damage to it is also the greatest and most direct. For smokers who have smoked for a longer period of time, it increases the risk of a range of respiratory diseases.
The lungs are an important respiratory organ of the human body, it can be said that nourishing the lungs is to nourish life, and the lungs do not have pain nerves, even if it is very painful, it cannot be told, when feeling its pain, it is very likely that the lesions have accumulated to the pleura, such as pneumonia, lung cancer, etc.
The harmful components and carcinogens in tobacco will have a certain impact on the movement of cilia, and the important role of cilia is to remove pathogenic microorganisms in the respiratory system and play a protective role.
2. Cardiovascular disease
The nicotine in tobacco can also cause damage to the endothelial cells in the blood vessels, disrupting other integrity and increasing the risk of vasospasm. It can cause chest tightness and angina.
At the same time, it can also lead to a decrease in the oxygen content in the blood vessels, and harmful substances attach to the artery walls, making them thicker and increasing the risk of coronary arteriosclerosis. Such harms are caused by the accumulation of long-term smoking, and smoking poses a great threat to cardiovascular health.
In addition to this, it also increases the risk of high blood pressure, and whether it is first-hand smoke or second-hand smoke, it can cause abnormal blood pressure to rise.
Because of the effect of harmful substances on blood vessels, blood vessels constrict, which will cause the heart rate to rise faster and blood pressure to rise.
3. Risk of cancer
There are many types of cancers that can be caused by smoking, such as oral cancer. When the harmful substances in tobacco hurt the lungs through the respiratory system, they should first pass through the oral cavity when inhaled, and the cells in the oral cavity may be stimulated by harmful substances for a long time, and lesions may occur, or even cancer, resulting in oral cancer.
After passing through the mouth and then through the throat, it also increases the risk of laryngeal cancer, and the presence of tumors in the larynx is often accompanied by pain, hoarseness, and even difficulty breathing.
Harmful substances reach the lungs and cause damage to lung cells, which in the long run becomes an important factor in the development of lung cancer.
For smokers, cravings are difficult to control, and the damage that smoking causes to our bodies is so obvious. If you can't control it, make sure to try not to smoke during the following three times!
1. When you wake up in the morning
Do you know how harmful the first cigarette in the morning is to your body?
There may be some smokers who are more addicted to smoking, and get up a cigarette early, thinking that it can make them wake up quickly, and use this as a way to wake themselves up.
When we wake up in the morning, the stomach and intestines are empty, and it is the time to replenish nutrients, at this time, when we smoke a cigarette, nicotine and other harmful substances are enveloped in it, isn't it easier to be absorbed by the body?
Not only that, but it can also irritate the gastric mucosa, causing stomach discomfort and may affect appetite. In the long run, the damage to the digestive tract and gastric mucosa is great. Just woke up and had a cigarette in your hand, it was really unbelievable!
And smoking itself will affect sleep, sleep poorly at night, and wake up groggy and unenergetic in the morning. At this time, if you light a cigarette to refresh yourself, you will fall into a vicious circle, which can also be said to fight poison with poison.
2. After eating
Many smokers may have heard the saying that a cigarette after a meal is better than a living fairy.
This is a false rumor, and many smokers choose to light a cigarette after a meal, which is actually wrong. It seems to be enjoying, but in fact it is very bad for the body.
After eating, the gastrointestinal tract is busy absorbing various nutrients from the food to provide energy for the body. At this time, smoking harmful substances are also particularly easy to be absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract and enter the blood circulation, which has an adverse effect on the body.
And doctors say that smoking after meals will increase the secretion of bile, and if there is too much bile, it will also cause gastritis, enteritis, and even gastroesophageal reflux.
At the same time, it will also inhibit the secretion of pancreatic juice, which may cause indigestion and affect the absorption of nutrients. Therefore, I advise the majority of smokers to stop smoking a cigarette after a meal!
3. Before going to bed at night
Smoking before bed will affect sleep, and when you are sleepy during the day, many smokers will choose to light a cigarette to refresh your mind, and smoking before going to bed may cause insomnia.
Because nicotine enters the brain, it stimulates it to release dopamine, giving people a feeling of euphoria.
However, nicotine is quickly excreted from the body, the pleasure disappears, and irritability may occur. If you want to maintain this pleasure, you need to light another cigarette, which will also enter a vicious cycle, which will make it difficult to fall asleep and will greatly reduce the quality of sleep.
Staying up late and smoking can be regarded as a "devil's combination" that harms physical health. Therefore, for the majority of smokers, even if they smoke, it is best not to smoke before going to bed.
It is important to know that having a good sleep is very important for our body, and from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, sleep is a great supplement, and a good sleep is the best health supplement.
Moreover, smoking before going to bed will also cause some damage to the liver, because the harmful substances inhaled by smoking are detoxified through the liver. Not only will it increase the burden on the liver, but it will also cause liver damage in the long run.
When we sleep, we are used to closing the doors and windows, and the air is not circulated after smoking, which is equivalent to inhaling second-hand smoke throughout the sleep process, causing double damage to the body.
epilogue
Quitting smoking can be easily given up, but the end is harm, quitting smoking can also be difficult to persevere, and the end point is health. For smokers, quitting smoking is one of the best options to improve overall health.
If you don't plan to quit smoking for the time being, it's best not to smoke at three times before waking up, after meals, and before going to bed to reduce some harm to the body.
Source: Langzhong herb