Every year hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from diseases caused by smoking.
One in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age.
Tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of cancers.
The mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels.
This can cause heart attacks and stroke. It slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers end up having their limbs
amputated.
Tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer. A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.
Changing to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeper puffs and hold the smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs.
Carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body and especially your heart work harder. Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into your lungs.
Smoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. The strain put on your body by smoking often causes years of suffering. Emphysema is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.
Lung cancer from smoking is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke. Men who smoke are ten times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers.
Heart disease and strokes are also more common among smokers than non-smokers.
Smoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels which leads to heart attack.
Smoking causes around one in five deaths from heart disease.
In younger people, three out of four deaths from heart disease are due to smoking
Please quip smoking for the sake of your health!
首先要意识到戒烟的益处:
仅仅戒烟一天,戒烟给心脏、血压和血液系统带来的益处便会显现出来。戒烟1年,冠心病的超额危险性比继续吸烟者下降一半。
戒烟5年—15年后,中风的危险性降到从不吸烟者水平。
戒烟10年,患肺癌的危险性比继续吸烟者降低一半。患口腔癌、喉癌、食管癌、膀胱癌、肾癌、胰腺癌的危险性降低,患胃溃疡的危险降低。
戒烟15年,患冠心病的危险与从不吸烟者相似。死亡的总体危险度恢复到从不吸烟者水平。因此,任何时间戒烟都不算迟,而且最好在出现严重健康损害之前戒烟。
如何戒烟:
1.戒烟从现在开始,完全戒烟或逐渐减少吸烟次数的方法,通常3~4个月就可以成功。
2.丢掉所有的香烟、打火机、火柴和烟灰缸。
3.避免参与往常习惯吸烟的场所或活动。
4.餐后喝水、吃水果或散步,摆脱饭后一支烟的想法。
5.烟瘾来时,要立即做深呼吸活动,或咀嚼无糖分的口香糖,避免用零食代替香烟,否则会引起血糖升高,身体过胖。
6.坚决拒绝香烟的引诱,经常提醒自己,再吸一支烟足以令戒烟的计划前功尽弃。
如何度过戒烟最难熬的前5天?提供以下七项戒烟方法(二):
(l)两餐之间喝6-8杯水,促使尼古丁排出体外。
(2)每天洗温水浴,忍不住烟瘾时可立即淋裕
(3)在戒烟的5日当中要充分休息,生活要有规律。
(4)饭后到户外散步,做深呼吸15—30分钟。
(5)不可喝刺激性饮料,改喝牛奶、新鲜果汁和谷类饮料。
(6)要尽量避免吃家禽类食物、油炸食物、糖果和甜点。
(7)可吃多种维生素b群,能安定神经除掉尼古丁
医师指出,过了最初五天可按照下列方法保持戒烟“战果”
(1)饭后刷牙或漱口,穿干净没烟味的衣服。
(2)用钢笔或铅笔取代手持香烟的习惯动作。
(3)将大部分时间花在图书馆或其它不准抽烟的地方。
(4)避免到酒吧和参加宴会,避免与烟瘾很重的人在一起。
(5)将不抽烟省下的钱给自己买一项礼物。
(6)准备在2—3周戒除想抽烟的习惯。