The effects of smoking

What are the effects of smoking on a person? Well, let's start with the fact that when communicating with a smoker, he smells of tobacco, literally everything is soaked with tobacco (hair, clothes, etc.). From constant smoking, a smoker's teeth turn yellow, the pH of the oral cavity is disturbed and, as a result, caries, stomatitis, gingivitis develop. You have probably noticed how smokers like to blow smoke through their nose, and this has a detrimental effect on the mucous membrane of the nose, which leads to its drying out and loss of its protective properties.
The consequences of smoking have a detrimental effect not only on the oral cavity, but also on the vocal cords. When you inhale, the smoke passes through the vocal cords, and not only resins, but also other carcinogenic (contributing to the formation of cancer) substances settle on the cords. From such exposure to tobacco smoke, the ligaments begin to coarsen, the elasticity of the ligaments is significantly reduced, fibrous tissue begins to grow under the influence of carcinogenic substances - this leads to a narrowing of the glottis and the formation of fibromas on them. The consequences of smoking for the vocal cords are as follows: the voice loses its sonority, the timbre of the voice changes, the voice becomes hoarse. A wheezing man is okay, but a wheezing woman with a rough voice - this is already capable of pushing away any man. This also explains why smokers find it difficult to give presentations, they constantly have a feeling of "dry throat" and they try to drink water more often, but this gives little effect. The consequences of smoking for such professions as a lecturer, actor, singer - can be very deplorable.

The effects of smoking on the lungs

The effects of smoking on the lungs are the most distressing and here's why: then the smoke enters the trachea and divides into 2 main bronchi, and then enters the bronchioles, and ultimately enters the most delicate structure of our lungs - these are the respiratory sacs or acini. Our respiratory tract (trachea, bronchi, bronchioles) are covered with delicate ciliated epithelium, which flickers against the air flow and the smallest particles of air and smoke settle on it. In this way, our lungs clean themselves. If there are a lot of impurities in the air, they settle on the ciliated epithelium and are removed from the respiratory tract along with phlegm. Now imagine how much dirt settles on this epithelium! All the harmful substances contained in the smoke begin to settle here, and with each new puff, there are more and more of them. The ciliated epithelium cannot cope with the resin that has settled on it, and then other protective systems of the body are connected - cough. Our body monitors the normal state of all systems and organs - everything is brought to the machine, which is why we cannot control the cough, well, maybe only for a minute, we can postpone it or cover our mouth with our hand. But if the body considers that this is not enough, then the cough will repeat again and will do this persistently until it clears the respiratory tract of dirt. That is why smokers cough so much - this is how the body fights resin and other harmful substances. At this point, the immune system rushes to him! The fact is that all substances contained in smoke are extremely harmful (I hope everyone understands this), they settle in the bronchi, but the ciliated epithelium and cough cannot clean everything out completely. And these harmful substances begin to irritate the cells of the bronchi, bronchioles and alveoli. Inflammation begins, and it is to the site of inflammation that our cells that protect against infection (for example, macrophages) rush, everything happens so complicatedly here that it would be necessary to write a separate article. But what does the smoker do? And instead of helping the body cleanse itself, he takes and puts another cigarette in his mouth, and this happens regularly and every day!!! The body's protective functions work at the limit and with less and less positive results, failures begin. All this leads to such consequences of smoking as: chronic bronchitis and emphysema, asthma attacks, a tendency to respiratory diseases and their long-term course, but most importantly, the risk of developing cancer increases 6 timesa . In addition, according to the latest data: 95% of tuberculosis patients are smokers. And so the consequences of smoking for the lungs: the lungs are polluted with tar, the lungs are less elastic, there is a lot of sputum in the lungs, they age quickly, ventilation in the lungs is impaired, all the conditions for the development of cancer are created in them!!!

Consequences of smoking for the cardiovascular system

The cardiovascular system also suffers from the consequences of smoking. Everyone remembers well from biology lessons that carbon dioxide has a greater affinity for hemoglobin than oxygen. Carbon dioxide released during cigarette combustion enters the lungs, where it combines with hemoglobin (since it has a greater affinity than oxygen) and travels through the tissues. Here the tissues should have received oxygen, but it turns out to be very little, as a result, oxygen starvation of the tissues occurs. The brain and heart are most susceptible to oxygen starvation. The heart, which works non-stop and pumps blood to the organs, receives harmful carbon dioxide for its work instead of life-giving oxygen. Why does it get this??? But that's not all! Nicotine, which also got into the blood, can cause narrowing of peripheral vessels, this further contributes to oxygen starvation, and the smoker's heart requires more effort to push blood through the narrowed vessels. The load on the heart increases several times, since signals are sent to the brain that the tissues do not have enough oxygen, the brain gives the heart a command to pump harder. The heart, which itself does not have enough oxygen, honestly begins to work even harder, the heart rate increases and the force of contraction increases, which is why smokers have a high pulse and high blood pressure. The consequences of smoking for the heart are very tragic, the heart is forced to work with great effort, like an athlete. But unlike an athlete who helps the heart get oxygen, a smoker brazenly mocks the heart, he feeds it carbon dioxide for its honest work! With such consequences of smoking for the heart, how long do you think it will last? And will a smoker be able to do the same physical activity as a non-smoker?

A vicious circle is formed: all organs experience oxygen starvation, they ask the brain to do something, the brain gives commands:
To the lungs - increase the oxygen supply by increasing the frequency of respiratory movements and the depth of inhalation! But a deep breath is difficult, since the lungs have lost their elasticity and are generally polluted, carbon dioxide enters the blood through the lungs instead of oxygen.
The heart must increase the heart rate and the force of contraction in order to deliver blood with oxygen to the organs! But the heart is starving no less than other organs, but it is forced to work. Against the background of such oxygen starvation, it wears out VERY quickly. The heart of a smoker makes more than 10,000 extra contractions per day.
In addition, the brain is forced to limit the supply of oxygen to the "secondary organs", and this is the stomach and intestines - this will not have a positive effect on them either and contributes to the development of gastric ulcers and duodenal ulcers.
Nicotine, which has long been in the blood and in the brain itself, has long narrowed the blood vessels, which contributes to atherosclerosis and tissue necrosis - all this leads to amputation of the lower limbs as a result of the development of obliterating endarteritis of the arteries of the leg and foot.
The brain itself suffers no less than other organs, because of the narrowed arteries (under the influence of nicotine) it not only does not receive enough oxygen, but also at a more mature age (50-55) the likelihood of a stroke increases several times. By that time, the blood vessels become thinner under the influence of nicotine, lose elasticity - and at one fine moment, with narrowed blood vessels, the blood simply bursts out, like through a burst pipe, and here you have a stroke.

These are the consequences of smoking, my friends. So, if you smoke, spare your organs, they will not last so long. If you do not smoke, then put a link to the article to help smokers quit smoking. Help the site more details here ...