Smoke is extremely hazardous to
human body and health. As against most myths, there is absolutely no safe way
of smoking. The cigar, the pipe, the hookah are all equally dangerous and cause
all health risks linked to tobacco and its products.
Cigarettes are frankly a storehouse
of 600 + chemicals, most of them harmful. When they burn however, this number
increases to more than 7,000. At least 69 of them are known to cause cancers
and irrelevant of how you consume tobacco a lot of these ingredients are found
in the pipes, hookahs and cigars.
The smoke affects not just your
lungs but various other organs. Coughing up incessantly is not even half of it
to be honest. Nor is feeling breathless, tired, exhausted and being unable to
get rid of that pigmentation around your fingers. The environment surrounding
you is full of the smoke and the stale smell with carcinogens finding their way
to the parts of your body which you never imagined were being affected.
In order to understand this better,
let’s look at the most common organs that get affected by smoking:
Lungs
Obvious! I’m getting this out of the
way early only because it’s so obvious. As you inhale the smoke with your
breath your lungs and respiratory tract are the first to get affected. Consider
emphysema, COPD, bronchitis, asthma, lung cancer and the breathlessness. Sadly,
damaged lung tissue never heals. So damaged once, damaged forever!
Skin
We take skin for granted. Always!
It’s easy to forget it exists. And skin is damaged by smoking not just on a
cosmetic level but also in terms of increased health risks. Skin gets affected
not only in terms of toughening, wrinkles, coloring, stretch marks or baggy
eyes, but also suffers from psyriasis, warts, skin cancer and poorer wound
healing. Skin is our first line of defence and damaging its immunity is
doubling the risk of infections of all sorts.
Uterus
Ecotopic pregnancy becomes common in
women who smoke. Result the uterus is unable to hold the embryo leading not
just to complicated pregnancies, but at times also life-threats to the mother.
Failure in trying to get pregnant, lower fecundity rates and adverse
reproductive outcomes are often not given enough thought when women smoke
aggressively.
Penis
Men suffer from smoking as well,
even in terms of reproductive and sexual health. Smoking is known to cause
erectile dysfunctional disorders. Nicotine is known to reduce the durability
and the quality of erectile functioning in men.
Eyes
Eyes suffer not just the bags under
them, but also blindness, glaucoma, cataracts, macular degeneration related to
age. Smoking can trigger type 2 diabetes, thus also leading to blindness, forms
of cataract and dry eye syndrome. It’s not just the smoke in front of your eyes
that affects you but also the effect it causes on your blood flow and the lack
of oxygen, caused by smoking, in the blood stream.
Sure most liver cancers are secondary, but the fact is the smokers tend to suffer from liver cancers far more than non-smokers. Smokers who smoke when they drink are actually the most prone to liver damage, thanks to combined effect of all the poisons of the smoke with alcohol.
It is often difficult to digest and accept the side effects of an addictive habit. However, with support it’s easier. At CCF, support is just a click or aphone call away !
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