Smoking is Silently Destroying Your Health
By:
Graham Nicks
Smoking is the sneaky killer that gives
short-term pleasure in return for long lasting health problems.
The short-term pleasure, overtime, becomes a
nicotine
addiction that is very hard to break. The list
of bad effects that this has on your body is long. Nicotine is a
chemical that can bring on physical and mind altering effects on
your body. Long term this can be devastating to yur health.
Below are the many reasons that you should consider to Quit
Smoking.
Many smokers are unaware of the many different illnesses that
result from the smoking habit. Usually they relate smoking to
lung
cancer but not much more. In reality the
health problems are much wider spread, they include
heart
disease, vascular disease, emphysema, aging
skin, pregnancy and many more.
How smoking affects your lungs
You may be surprised that smoking causes almost 90 percent of
lung cancers and other lung related disease such as emphysema.
It depends on how long someone has been smoking, but as a
general rule, smokers are 20 times more likely to get a
lung
disease than a non-smoker. But all is not
lost, if a smoker were to give up the smoking habit, their risk
is lowered dramatically over time. It may never get to as low as
a non-smoker, but regardless, the health benefits are worth the
effort.
How smoking affects the heart and vascular system
There are not many parts of the body that are not under attack
when you are smoking cigarettes. Your heart and circulatory
systems are under attack by the chemicals found in nicotine,
putting your under stress due to an increase in blood pressure
and a rise in your heart rate. The combined effect of carbon
monoxide taking away the oxygen form your heart and other vital
organs caused by the restricting of blood vessels can lead to a
greater risk of stroke and heart attack.
How smoking can cause cancer
It is widely known that smoking leads to lung cancer. What is
not known is that smoking is a major contributor to other
cancers, such as
cancer of the mouth, throat, and esophagus.
And it does not stop there, other vital organs and body parts
can be effected by cancers also. Smoking may not be the sole
cause, but certainly a major contributing factor in cancer of
the stomach, cervix, kidney's, colon., rectum and the list goes
on.
How does smoking affect your appearance.
This may not rank high for some people, but in reality no one
wants to look older than they are, but it's a fact that your
body's largest organ, the skin is also affected by the intake of
smoke and nicotine. You may wonder how this is possible, well,
as other parts of your body are starved of oxygen, so is your
skin. It can become dry and irritated, which usually leads to
many more wrinkles and an aged appearance.
Does smoking affect fertility in women
The simple answer is yes. Smoking affects not only the fertility
in women but also in men. In women there is a greater risk of
miscarriage, which can have a devastating effect on the whole
family. In men there is a greater risk of
impotence because as mentioned earlier there
are vascular consequences to smoking, the blood vessels can be
damaged leading to erection problems.
How smoking affects pregnancy
The well being of the unborn child should be foremost in the
mind of every mother. Some mother may not be aware that they are
harming their baby if they continue smoking. These are the
risks…low birth weight, lung function below normal, a delivery
that may be premature, still born, may be more susceptible to
cot death. Children from smoking mothers may also be more
susceptible to pneumonia and bronchitis or asthma.
Conclusion
Smoking does not just devastate your own health it can severely
affect your family's health if they are to endure your
secondhand smoke. You can also find yourself out of work due to
smoking related illness, which will also impact on your family.
Consider your health and the impact your smoking may have on
your family before it's to late, remember if you quit now, every
day going foreword your body is repairing itself for a long
healthy future
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