In my previous post/article, I disclosed on the issue of mouth odour
and how to get rid of them. You can read it here
This week, I want to discuss on the matter of smoking and its effect.
It is no longer a new thing under the heaven that people indulge in
smoking for reasons best know to them. But on this post, I will the
tell you most of the effect of smoking to the human body.
Smoking has no other specific meaning than the activity or habit of
smoking cigarette (according to oxford dictionary). Smoking has
contributed to the death of youths and teenagers and also lead to the
introduction of diseases such as lung cancer which i will expatiate
later in this post. According to research, cigarettes contains over
600 ingredients, when it burns, it produce more than 6000 chemicals in
which they are toxic to the body leading to cancer.
Tobacco is made up of different ingredients in which one is Nicotine.
Nicotine is sometimes called mind-altering drugs because it reaches
the brain in some seconds when smoked. For sometime, it makes you feel
more energetic and after that you begin to feel tired. Smoking
increases the risks of cataracts, poor sight and muscular
degeneration. In the body, there is a hormone (for stress) called
CORTICOSTERONE which decreases the effects of the body. So simple
logic will tell you that when you are stressed alto then you need
nicotine to neutralize the effect. This is where ADDICTION set in. You
might be thinking what i meant by addiction but don't worry i will
tell you. Addiction is a condition of being used to a particular thing
or activity. So we are discussing about smoking then i refer addiction
to a condition of being used to smoking.
Withdrawal from smoking can seriously affect your body system and
makes you feel depressed, irritated, headaches and insomnia (sleep
problem).
Smoking also affect the lung thereby leading to lung cancer. It
damages the lung which makes it lose it ability to sieve out harmful
chemicals. Thereby leading to high risks of respiratory infections,
flu and colds. According to research, children of smokers are prone to
coughing and asthma attacks. They are also tendency of ear infections,
pneumonia and bronchitis (lung diseases).
Nicotine also causes the blood vessel in our human body to tighten
which restrict the free flow of blood. Thereby leading to high blood
pressure. Smoking also lowers good cholesterol levels which is caused
by the formation of bad cholesterol. Smoking also increases the risk
of forming blood clots in the brain which increases the risk of
STROKE. Smokers also have high risk of blood cancer which is referred
to as LEUKEMIA. Funny aspect of it is that, non smokers are also at
risk. I mean that if you are in a surrounding of where people are
smoking, it can lead to stroke,heart attack and some other heart
diseases.
Smoking also change the morphology (structure) of the skin. In
otherwords, it causes the discolouration of the skin, premature aging
etc. Smoker usually have yellow stains on the teeth. It increase the
risk of cancer in the mouth, throat, esophagus and other parts of the
oral cavity.
My own simple advice to you is that you should abstain from smoking.
And to those who are already smoking, you have seen the effect of
smoking in your body which i know is enough to help you abstain from
it.
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