If you're an addict in Norway and want to buy a cigarette, the cigarette box may dissuade you.
In order to restrict people's smoking, Norway often prints smoking-diseased lungs, rotten teeth, perforated throats, and even skulls on the packaging box to intimidate smokers.
The image below is a strong contrast between the lungs of non-smokers and those of smokers, making it the best quit advertising. The lungs of smokers are completely different from those of non-smokers, the lungs of non-smokers are normal pink, while the lungs of smokers are black and can be recognized at a glance.
Image source People's Daily
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" >, smoking makes your lungs blacken little by little</h1>
As we all know, there are many harmful substances in tobacco, these substances need to be purified through the lungs after inhalation, and a small amount of inhalation of cigarettes in the lungs can clean out harmful substances in time.
Once the inhalation amount exceeds the amount that the lungs can load, the cleaning ability of the lungs will become worse, and the harmful substances in the cigarette will not be discharged in time, and these substances will gradually deposit in the lungs, so that the color of the lungs will slowly turn black.
Under normal circumstances, the amount of smoking per day in 1 pack of people, so that the lungs blackening takes 1 to 3 years, when the amount of smoking exceeds this amount, the speed of blackening of the lungs will also accelerate. Of course, the speed of blackening of the lungs is also related to individual differences, and the rate of blackening will be slower for people with better lung cleaning ability.
To be sure, the older the smoker and the more smokers, the faster their lungs darken.
For the health of the lungs, it is imperative to quit smoking. Before quitting smoking, many smokers will have a lot of questions, let's answer them one by one.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="27" >2. Can quitting smoking make the lungs white back? </h1>
No, because the harmful substances in cigarettes are "immersed" in the lung tissue, and once the lungs turn black, they can no longer change back to their original color. Although the color of the lungs cannot be changed back, after quitting smoking, the function of the lungs will gradually begin to improve, and once you quit smoking, the lungs will begin to repair themselves.
After starting to quit smoking, the cilia in the lungs will begin to regenerate in about a week, and after three months the cilia function will return to normal, and when the cilia function returns to normal, it can effectively remove dead and damaged cells. After one year of smoking cessation, lung function is effectively enhanced, and lung function will get better and better as the time to quit smoking increases.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="31" >3. Will quitting smoking reduce the cancer rate? </h1>
Quit smoking can reduce the incidence of a variety of cancers, at any time quit smoking is not too late, quit smoking within 5 to 10 years can reduce the risk of oral cancer, throat cancer by half; quit smoking within 10 years can reduce the risk of bladder cancer, esophageal cancer, kidney cancer by half; quit smoking within 10 to 15 years can reduce the risk of lung cancer by half; within 20 years of smoking cessation, the risk of oral cancer, throat cancer and pancreatic cancer can be reduced to the same level as non-smokers, and can reduce the risk of cervical cancer by half. As long as you quit smoking, you can reduce the risk of at least 12 types of cancer.
The above data is for smokers who have not yet suffered from cancer, so does it mean that those who have already suffered from lung cancer do not need to quit smoking?
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="32" > of course not, WHO has done a study that showed that smoking cessation can significantly improve survival rates in lung cancer patients. Patients with lung cancer had an average longer survival period after smoking cessation than non-smoking patients, with a 33% reduction in overall mortality and a relative 25% reduction in lung cancer-specific mortality.
Fourth, at what age is the best time to quit smoking? </h1>
A survey in the United States showed that quitting smoking before the age of 34 may save 10 years of life, quitting before the age of 44 may save 9 years of life, and quitting before the age of 54 may save 6 years of life.
Dong Zongqi, deputy head of the respiratory group of the Chinese Pediatric Society, pointed out that the sooner you quit smoking, the better, don't wait until after your health problems and then regret it is too late. And taking his own example to make a "bad example" for all smokers, Dong Lao was depressed due to work when he was young, relying on smoking to relieve stress.
As a doctor, he naturally understands the disadvantages of smoking, but he has not been able to resist the temptation of tobacco, from the beginning of five or six sticks a day to a pack a day, and the amount of smoking behind him is getting bigger and bigger... In the middle, I have tried to quit smoking many times and have failed.
Until the age of 79, Dong Lao needed surgery due to illness, and found that his lung function was "not up to standard" when doing a full body examination, and he almost couldn't get on the operating table because of this, and this lesson made Dong Lao think bitterly and make up his mind to quit smoking.
However, years of smoking history, so that Dong Lao left sequelae, he suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, walking a little faster will be a big gasp, had to travel in a wheelchair.
Elder Dong very much regretted that he quit smoking too late, and he used his own personal experience to advise young people that they must quit smoking as soon as possible!
Smoking is harmful to health, but not beneficial. The benefits of quitting smoking to the body are "real", and people who are still smoking are advised to quit smoking as soon as possible! Don't use the clumsy excuse of smoking for too many years and it's too late to quit smoking to avoid quitting! #健康明星计划 #
Resources:
[1] "The old expert of respiratory medicine began to quit smoking at the age of 79, warning young people not to smoke". Yangtze River Daily.2018.8.24
[2] "[Health Science] After quitting smoking, can people's lungs still return to normal? 》. The Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University.2018.5.29
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