How is our body affected by smoke from cigarettes?

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Image via Wikipedia Smoking leads the human body towards the diseases which finally bring about premature death. Smoking causes mainly three possible fatal diseases as follows.

1. Lung Problems: People who smoke tobacco products may be affected by emphysema and chronic bronchitis. The percentage of deaths attributable due to these lung diseases may be as high as 82%.

2. Cancer: In every year about 30% of people who smoke are dying because of cancer and 87% are dying because of lung cancer.

Smoking and Diseases

1. 30% of all heart attacks and cardiovascular deaths directly linked to smoking tobacco products.

2. Smoking makes can cause women to reach their menopause prematurely.

3. Smoking affects the blood vessels causing chronic pain in the legs. It may progress to amputations of the feet and toes.

4. You look older than your age due to smoking. In chronic smokers, the elastic tissues are affected causing premature wrinkling of the facial skin.

5. Healing of peptic ulcers of the stomach and duodenum is very slow for smokers. For non-smokers it heals much more spontaneously.

6. The rate of osteoporosis is more for the smoker. Smokers have more possibility of bone fractures since smoking weakens the bone.

Do you know what is in a cigarette?

Tobacco is the main component of a cigarette. The tobacco smoke is generated when a cigarette is ignited and the tobacco burns. Tobacco smoke is a mixture of gases and small particles made up of nicotine, tar and water. The tar is a messy mixture of toxic chemicals which may be counted to be hundreds in numbers and many of these toxic chemical are causes for cancer.

Do you know how smoking causes all heart problems?

1. When a cigarette is smoked, it is absorbed through the lungs and so the carbon monoxide will combine with the hemoglobin in the red blood cells. Automatically the amount of oxygen carried out around the body is reduced causing energy levels to fall.

2. Carbon monoxide and nicotine is used to accelerate the cholesterol to deposit in the inner lining of arteries. Due to smoke, disease in the arteries are developed which reduces the blood flow.

3. Blood clotting is more likely when you smoke. It leads to episodes of thrombosis blood clots in the legs which could break and enter the lungs giving respiratory distress.

4. Oxygen supply is reduced and damages the heart and increases the both the likelihood and severity of a heart attack.

5. Nicotine also disturbs the regular action of the heart.

After an individual quits smoking, within 48 hrs your body will have the following differences: pulse rate drops, blood pressure decreases, temperature will increase in hands and feet of the body, the oxygen level is changed to normal in the blood, carbon monoxide level in the blood comes to normal.

The ability to taste and smell increases and nerve endings starting to re-grow are other advantages you obtain when you stop smoking. When you refrain from smoking the blood circulation and lung functions are greatly improved.

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