Smoking is a high-risk factor in lung cancer, but many smokers believe in the case of the same thing more. They will provide evidence: "Look at Lao Wang next door, he has never gotten lung cancer after smoking all his life!" Not to mention that this argument is not rigorous, if you take a step back, even if smoking cannot cause lung cancer 100%, its harm cannot be underestimated.
has a very painful disease caused by smoking, which even makes patients worse than death. As long as you smoke, you will almost always get this disease. This is COPD .
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a disease characterized by continuous airflow limitation. It is related to the enhanced chronic inflammatory response of the airway and lung tissue to harmful gases or harmful particles such as tobacco smoke. COPD is a destructive lung disease. Like diabetes and hypertension , there is no complete cure so far, and it can only be relieved. Patients with terminal COPD can only maintain their lives through intubation and nutrient infusion. They cannot eat, drink, get out of bed, and talk, which is no different from vegetatives.
Many patients with COPD told me that it would be better to make me die of lung cancer. Chronic obstructive pulmonary pulmonary indeed makes life worse than death. At present, COPD has become the fourth leading cause of death alongside AIDS , and 90% of chronic bronchitis and emphysema will develop into COPD. 8.2% of people in my country suffer from COPD, and the number of deaths from COPD each year reaches 1 million. It is worth noting that if you are over 40 years old and have a smoking history of more than 20 years, one in every 2 people suffers from COPD. If you are over 65 years old and smoke for more than 30 years, 90% of people will suffer from COPD. Moreover, for people who do not smoke, if they live in a second-hand smoke environment every day, they are also a high incidence of COPD.
What's more terrifying is that if you suffer from COPD, in the past 10 to 20 years, the patient may develop chronic pulmonary heart disease, with systemic edema, liver congestion, swelling, and even congestive cirrhosis and severe heart and pulmonary dysfunction.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is so terrible, and smoking is one of the factors that cause all bronchial diseases and an important pathogenic factor of COPD. There are cilia on our trachea that are responsible for filtering harmful particles. Under normal circumstances, cilia can swing back and forth with the airflow to prevent harmful substances from entering the body. Long-term smoking will cause damage to the tracheal cilia and a series of tissues, causing the cilia to swing smaller or even not swing, which makes many harmful substances already in the smoke more unimpeded, and the COPD is just around the corner.
The main sign of COPD is coughing up sputum. Many smokers regard coughing and sputum as a very common symptom, but if you smoke a box of cigarettes every day, the cigarette age is more than 20 years old, and now there are symptoms of coughing and sputum, then you have to be careful. If you are a senior smoker, you cough up white foamy phlegm. If you cough up phlegm for more than 3 months every year and for more than 2 years, you may have suffered from chronic bronchitis and COPD.
The second sign of COPD is gasping, which is mainly manifested as: walking slowly and not being able to walk with peers; climbing stairs for two or three levels to hold your breath will not work, that is, the activity endurance will decrease. Moreover, this phenomenon will gradually worsen, and I feel like I'm panting all the time, eating, wearing clothes, going to the toilet, and even starting to pant without finishing a few words. Their breathing is like we normal people putting our heads into the pile of firewood. When we breathe, we always feel something exhaling our noses and mouths, and we have to struggle hard.
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The only cost-effective way to prevent chronic pulmonary disorder is to quit smoking. There are thousands of ways to quit smoking, but the most important thing is to restrain your desires. The chemicals in cigarettes can make our brains feel "comfortable", which is the same principle as smoking drugs such as heroin. The opioid chemicals released by cigarettes make it difficult for you to quit. Compared with non-smoking people, 20% to 30% of smokers' brains that control emotions and desires will be affected to varying degrees.
When quitting smoking, it takes several days for our body to remove nicotine from the blood. Among them, the 3rd hour, the 12th hour, and the 3rd day, the three periods of nicotine removal have reached their peak, so they are the most difficult to endure.If we can overcome desires in these three stages and persist in resorbing, our brains will no longer feel "comfortable" by relying on cigarettes, and we can also successfully escape the harm of smoke and stay away from terrible diseases such as COPD.
