Summary:
- Cigarettes are known to contain 250 chemicals are harmful, 69 can cause cancer!
- Smoking and addiction.
- Smoking harms most organs in your body!
- Children around smoke are likely to get infections and a shorter life.
Hello everyone, Jacob here. Today I will be talking to you about smoking tobacco. Cigarettes contain a chemical called nicotine which is very addictive! Did you know that Nicotine is the least of your worries?
A single cigarette is known to contain 7000 chemicals! 250 of which are harmful. 69 Of these chemicals are know to cause cancer.
What effects does smoking have on the body?
Tobacco smoke causes harm to almost every organ in the body. Smoking is commonly linked with lung damage in the media. Its not actually only the lungs that these chemicals get to. Some of these things get to the blood and damage every organ.
Tobacco smoke dangers.
Benzene – C6H6 is one of the worst chemicals in cigarettes which if taken pure is likely to cause leukaemia which is blood cancer.
Tar – Tar is toxic and literally burns your lungs & also rots / burns the inside of your mouth and throat!
Formaldehyde –Ā HāCHO used to preserve bodies & to disinfect microbes.
Chromium – Cr is known to cause irregular sleep patterns, anxiety, head aches, kidney and liver damage!
Carbon Monoxide – CO is thicker than normal oxygen & is found in fire.
How second hand smoke can affect children.
It is well known that smoking around others is very dangerous. Children haven’t fully gained their immune system yet. People should think before smoking in front of children.
- Children are more likely to get SIDS (Sudden, Infant, Death, Syndrome).
- More likely to get asthma if exposed to smoke at a young age.
- More likelihood of bronchitis due to being exposed to different ailments in the lungs.
Damage smoking can cause on the body.
Cigarettes contain many chemicals which can cause chaos in the body.
Damage to the cardiovascular system.
Smoking destroys all of theĀ cardiovascular system. Some of these effects include:
- Blood vessels tighten. (Can cause blood clots).
- Plaque on the artery walls.
- Can cause higher blood pressure.
- Diseases such as, (CHD/CAD, PAD, Type 2 Diabetes).
Damage to the immune system.
Cigarettes can cause the immune system to be damaged and break down. Meaning it is harder to fight disease and toxins in the future. Some examples of immune system damage you will find below:
- Longer to fix damages to the body, (especially to the broken down lung tissue).
- Reverse the immune system to attack lung tissue.
- Higher risk of Bronchitis and phenomena.
- Harder to fight back future disease.
Damage smoking can do to your mental health.
Smoking has been said to improve your mental health but there is little evidence to support this! In fact here are some proven negative affects smoking can cause.
- Smoking can make you more paranoid, also anxiety.
- Increased chances of depression, you and others around you.
- The nicotine is very addictive to the brain and can increase stress levels.#
Diseases caused by heavy smoking.
Smokers are more likely of contracting a disease and also less likely to survive due to a weaker immune system. This section of the post we will go into some diseases caused by long term smoking.
Cancers from smoking.
Lung cancer is mostly linked with smoking in the modern day society but there are many other cancers which can be just as worst if not more!
- Mouth Cancer.
- Nose Cancer.
- Throat/esophagus Cancer.
- Stomach cancer.
- Lung cancer.
- Bone cancer.
- Other cancers, (Nose, Tongue, Nasal, Pancreas, Kidney, cervix, ovary, ureter, liver, bladder, bowel).
We have got a post about the causes of cancer and remedies if you have a diagnosis. Give it a read if your interested.
Top 5 Causes of Cancer ~ How to Treat it and the Best Known Remedies.
Disease to do with blood and heart from smoking.
- CHD / CAD (Coronary Heart Disease), (Coronary Artery Disease) 2 – 4 times more likely!
- Poor blood circulation which can cause pain and even amputation!
- Higher risk of heart murmur.
Disease to do with lungs and breathing from smoking.
- Pulmonary disease can actually be caused by smoking!
- Chronic bronchitis can be caused by smoking. This can lead to pneumonia.
- Emphysema can be caused by smoking but can be avoided from a vaccine.
Other disease caused by smoking.
- Ulcers in the gastric areas.
- Osteoporosis in smokers are likelier than OsteoporosisĀ in non-smokers.
- Higher risk of hip fracture.
How can you get help to stop smoking?
Choosing to stop smoking is a brilliant step forward for your life! We are going to do our best to help you by giving you the best places to get help and also some tips to help you along the way.
Go to the professionals.
Doctor.
The best place you can go to is your GP (Doctor), at your local surgery because they will know the best thing for you. It may take a few tries for them and a few months or years! But it will be worth the wait as its not worth the risk of the diseases we have spoken about in this article, also the average smoker spends Ā£10,000 per year on cigarettes.
Your GP will look into groups and courses for you to enter so that you can start your journey.
Also talking to your GP may really help as having someone there for you is the best thing for you to do if you are under a lot of stress about anything.
Pharmacist.
Speaking to a pharmacist will definitely be a good idea. You can often find these in your local doctor surgeries and also in your local supermarkets. But pharmacists will have a few options for you to try to get over your nicotine addiction.
Some examples you will find below.
- Vape pens are a popular choice for people trying to stop smoking.
- Smoking chewing gum has been created to get over nicotine addiction.
- Drugs such as Champix are often prescribed by the doctor.
A Pharmacist is also a very supportive person who will always be there to talk to you if you have any questions.
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More tips on the NHS website. 10 self-help tips to stop smoking – NHS (www.nhs.uk)
Very good Jacob. Well done a lot of good tips here. Never knew Cigarettes contained formaldehyde. Reading this makes me not want to smoke again. Would you say Rolling Tobacco is safer than cigarettes chemical wise?
I would say this as it is some what more natural and not as industrialized as the cigarettes and also less adictive!
I hate cigarettes and I am glad that someone has the same opinion as me. Smoking can do a lot of damage to health and the whole immune and cardiovascular system. I think this is very important for everyone to hear, so I will definitely share it with my friends and family.
Thank you for the support Lioness98. Smoking isn’t good. If you have any questions let me know.
Thank you for putting this together. I am lucky that I never started smoking or getting addicted to it. I did try it once, when I was a kid, as a joke but glad that it didn’t stick with me.
I know many people, around the world, is addicted to this poisonous stick but when the proper determination and willpower, I believe that everyone can get rid of this expense and deadly habit.
I do believe that cigarettes’ should be banned eventually and slowly but not a hard stop, cold turkey due to the mass addiction and cravings people have for them.
Totally agree. We cant just ban it as people could get really ill.
Thanks for a great post and some great information on the effects of smoking on your body!
It constantly surprises me that the cigarette companies haven’t been bought to task on the contents of cigarettes and made to substitute some of the more dangerous chemicals such as Benzene and Tar!
On a side note, you mention that children are more likely to get bronchitis due to being exposed to different substances in the lungs. I wonder do you subscribe to the theory that if we expose our children to certain ailments etc the n they will be build up immunity to those ailments or would you rather wrap-up the children and expose them to nothing!
No children shouldn’t be exposed to smoke. Nore should anyone who is not looking to damage their health.