Effects of Smoking Cigarettes
There are many dangerous elements that come with smoking. If you want to give up there are a lot of programs out there to help you.
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Effects of smoking cigarettes
Below, I have listed a basic timeline of what happens when you smoke a cigarette. I hope you find it interest ding and see how much damage a single cigarette can do to you.
- Ÿ When the smoke travels into your body, the lungs absorb the smoke and send dangerous chemicals to different parts of your body.
- Ÿ The first thing that enters the body is nicotine. Within 10 seconds the nicotine will have reached the brain, and every other part of the body.
- Ÿ Carbon Monoxide travels into your blood and binds to the blood cells, preventing them from carrying as much oxygen.
- Ÿ Chemicals that help to cause cancer damage genes in your body that can result in unusual growth or reproduce more than at a normal rate.
- Ÿ The cancer causing chemicals bind to your throat which begins to construct the airways of the smoker.
- Ÿ The stress that the smoke has on the body can damage the DNA, which can lead to body malfunctions.
- Ÿ The human body creates antitoxins that help to repair the damaged cells in our bodies. Smokers have less of these cells as they have damaged them.
- Ÿ Smoking over a long term can cause infertility, particularly in men. It can also cause blindness if smoke regularly enters into the eye.
- Ÿ Smoking affects the nose, which can lead to a lack of sense of smell.
- Ÿ Smoking can cause cancer of nearly any part of the body that comes into contact with smoke. This includes, but is not limited to the eyes, lips, mouth, nose, throat, lungs and even the tongue.
As you can see there are many dangerous elements that come with smoking. If you want to give up there are a lot of programs out there to help you. Start off with your local GP and they will find a suitable solution for you. If you are in Australia, check the Quit Smoking campaign that is run by the health department.
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