Smoking is a free invitation to nearly 7,000 harmful chemicals apart from nicotine. The compounds in these chemicals trigger precarious and chemically intense transformations in the body. Smoking is studied to damage every other organ of the body and lead to many diseases.
What damage could smoking pose to your health?
1. Heart diseases:
Smoking has the negative capability to pose great risk to your entire cardiovascular system. Cerebrovascular disease is one of the major losses done where arteries supplying blood to the brain are damaged. Formation of blood clots is another overwhelming health problem caused to smokers. There could also be an accumulation of bad cholesterol and lowering of good cholesterol followed by high blood pressure leading to the unwanted stretching of arteries. Nicotine and carbon monoxide add undesirable pressure on the heart increasing the risk of coronary heart disease while other harmful chemicals could cause injury to coronary arteries.
2. Brain damage:
Nicotine not only makes your brain to undesirably change how it functions, but also increases the risk of cerebral thrombosis which is the obstruction of blood supply to the brain resulting into stroke due to blockages in carotid artery. Nicotine from cigarettes could make you engrossed into strong cravings to smoke more and feel irritated and anxious. Apart from strong yearning, nicotine could take control and transform the brain’s receptor cells specialized for regulating the memory and well-being of the individual. Besides, you may be exposed to oxidative stress and your blood may clot often.
3. Respiratory system damage:
Smokers are on the danger line of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPDs) due to severe damage to the lungs. COPD includes chronic bronchitis which is the inflammation of the lining of the lung’s tubes. Another condition where damage is caused to the air sacs is also listed under COPDs. It is called emphysema. The lungs could lose the ability to filter harmful substances such as toxins and may result into lung cancer. Children too could be risked due to smoking according to the studies. A smoker’s child is more prone to bronchitis and pneumonia than a non-smoker’s.
4. Reproductive disability:
Smoking followed by chewing too much of mint could pose the risk of low libido, low orgasm, and erectile problems in men. This could very well result into infertility. Newborns and unborn fetuses have a greater risk of birth defects, low birth weight, SIDS, and other complications. Therefore, it is needed of the pregnant mothers and new mothers to abstain from smoking and secondhand smoking. They could suffer from premature delivery, placenta issues, miscarriage, etc. A woman who smokes could also increase the risk of cervical cancer.
5. Integumentary system damage:
Premature aging, skin discoloration, facial wrinkling, cellulite, hollow cheeks, yellow staining on fingers, brown stains on teeth, smelly hair, etc., are some of the commonly known problems caused to the integumentary system of constant smokers. The smoky smell from smokers could also cling to other people close to them. Oropharyngeal cancers of the gullet, lips, voice box, tongue, or throat are frequently observed in smokers. The frequency rate is 93% compared to non-smokers. Macular degeneration and cataracts are other major risks which threaten the person’s eyesight causing night vision and blindness.
What could smoking do to you socially?
1. Early aging:
How embarrassing would it be to have a wrinkled face and stained skin among your youthful friends of same age? Then why to smoke? The aging process in your body gets accelerated due to unlikely biochemical changes due to smoking according to the research of American Academy of Dermatology. You could have ugly wrinkles around your mouth region due the fatiguing muscle actions required while smoking. Besides leathery skin, smokers could also suffer from tar staining of the hands and skin. Smoking constricts the blood vessels causing deprivation of living skin tissues of oxygen.
2. Marriage problems:
Would you marry a smoker (whether female or male) yourself? Anybody looking for a life partner would want to marry a healthy and non-smoking individual after the worldwide popularity of dangerous diseases caused due to smoking. Marrying a smoker also puts your own life at risk as smokers could affect their partners too. Even the dating adverts and marriage portals suggest “No smokers, please!” And, if you’re way too older, smoking will only add to your problems in finding a mate. “After I crossed 40, the dating scene became harder because my peers were looking at people much younger, so if you add smoking into that, it’s even harder,” said a former smoker.
3. Socially aloof:
Smokers have traditionally been detached from the society for various reasons including ethical. They have not only invited threat to their physical, but also behavioral or mental health. The feeling of embarrassment and dejection from their peers has demoralized them to such an extent that they have lost their self-confidence, hindering them to present themselves freely before the public. “I usually hid somewhere and smoked so no one would see me. The experience of smoking embarrassed me and I felt weakened by it, both physically and emotionally,” expressed a smoker.
4. Secondhand smoke death:
You as a smoker is a great threat to those who are in the range of your harmful cigarette/tobacco smoke. With 40 carcinogens and more than 4,500 other destructive chemicals in your one puff of smoke, you could add to the huge death toll of 50,000 people caused due to secondhand smoke. Another interesting statistic reveals that when smokers of a community give up smoking, the percentage of heart attacks shrinks to 20-30%. Platelets, which are the fighters of your body, tend to become gluey or sticky because of which the person may suffer a blood clot resulting into heart attacks.
5. No activities:
Don’t get surprised if you were a rock climber or loved trekking and overtime, you realize that you struggle doing the same activities. That’s what smoking could do to you. Your friends may hate you for being a lazy brat and acting like an 80 year old. Your heart and lungs start giving up on you, making it difficult to get involved into any physical activities. You would miss the glorious childhood of your children and those youthful romantic days with your wife.
You decide whether you’re going to let your life get disappeared as a smoke or make it count every minute.
SIR PLS UPDATE ME ON THIS SUBJECT AS MY SON SMOKES TOO MUCH