Ahem, cough cough, let you quit smoking, let you go to the hospital for a check-up, you don't go, what if you get lung cancer? In order to persuade Lao Zhang to quit smoking, his family was bitter.
But Lao Zhang is stubborn, in his opinion, how many of the 100 smokers will eventually get lung cancer? Don't scare me, I know many old men who smoke and drink every day, and they all live to be in their 90s!
Lao Zhang's words, you say that he is a strong word, there is really a little problem, but you have to refute him, and he was speechless for a while, and he couldn't come up with a more convincing point of view.
The question is, there are so many smokers, how many of the 100 smokers will eventually get lung cancer?
The British Journal of Cancer has published such a research paper, which found that the probability of dying of lung cancer at the age of 75 is only 0.3% for non-smokers, while the probability of continuous smokers is 50 times higher; If you smoke more than 5 cigarettes a day, the chance of dying of lung cancer at the age of 75 is 25%.
In other words, 15 out of 100 smokers die of lung cancer at the age of 75, and if you smoke more than 5 cigarettes a day, 25 people out of 100 people will die from lung cancer at the age of 75.
Although smoking can induce lung cancer, which is only a probability event, from the research, such a probability is very high, and if you are willing to gamble, the risk of failure is very high.
Cigarettes are recognized by the World Health Organization as class I carcinogens, that is, clear carcinogens, because cigarettes are rich in nicotine, tar, benzopyrene and other substances, cigarettes will also produce carbon monoxide and sulfide and other harmful substances when burned, these substances are inhaled into the lungs, will cause varying degrees of damage to the lungs.
Therefore, there is no doubt that long-term smoking will induce lung cancer, the longer you smoke, the greater the number of cigarettes, the greater the risk of lung cancer, and the relationship between smoking and lung cancer is directly proportional.
Unfortunately, many long-term smokers, whenever they are advised to quit smoking, they will always have this rhetorical question, so many smokers, how many will get lung cancer, am I so unlucky?
But why don't you ask yourself that?
How many people who smoke will not get lung cancer? Would you bet that your luck must be that good?
There is a saying that if you don't see a coffin, you won't shed tears, in fact, those who suffer from lung cancer because of smoking are regretful, and they hate that they didn't quit smoking sooner.
What's worse is that smoking not only harms your own body, but also your family's body, and long-term smoking will also cause your family to ingest a lot of secondhand smoke, and if you do this repeatedly, the risk of lung cancer will also increase over time.
So, you should quit smoking not only for your own health, but also for the health of your family.
I often encounter such a family, the man smokes, the woman does not smoke, but the long-term passive ingestion of second-hand smoke, as a result, after a long time, the man does not suffer from lung cancer, but the woman suffers from lung cancer, what is going on?
In fact, women are more sensitive to carcinogens in cigarettes than men.
So, if you're still smoking, quit right away by the time you read this article.
How can I quit smoking? As a doctor, my advice is the following 3 points.
1. When quitting smoking, be sure to stay away from smokers and smoking environments
If you can't stay away, then when someone hands you a cigarette, you are embarrassed to refuse, once you take it, you may relapse, and in a smoking environment, even if you don't actively smoke, you can ingest second-hand smoke, which will also lead to failure to quit smoking.
2. Quitting smoking is a long-term process, not a matter of one or two days
Many smokers, thinking that they have quit smoking for a day or two without smoking, think that quitting smoking has been successful, they ignore the power of cigarettes, quitting smoking is a long-term process, only quitting smoking for more than half a year can be considered a successful quit smoking, less than half a year can not be considered a success.
3. Quitting smoking requires perseverance, but bad habits cannot be replaced by bad habits
It takes perseverance to quit smoking, and some people drink alcohol in order to quit smoking, and as a result, they quit smoking, but they don't quit drinking, which doesn't really make sense.