Cigarettes contain about 600 contiguous ingredients, when these ingredients burn, they generate more than 7,000 poisonous chemicals out of which 69 are linked directly to cancer.
Smoking has many side effects; it not only affects our lungs but also suppress our immunity and decrease fertility. Smoking also decrease oxygen carrying ability of blood and result in blood clots. Smoking also has severe affect on nervous, digestive and skeletal systems of our body. Due to all these contagious effects it’s necessary to quit smoking for living a healthy life.
How To Quit Smoking
Quitting smoking is a time-consuming and difficult task. It takes more willpower. Following are the methods by which we can quit smoking:
- The most common way is to simply stop smoking and commit yourself to smoke free. To increase your chances of success, try to take up new activities to replace smoking like to chew sugarless gum.
- Another way to quit smoking, you can consult doctor who will prescribe medications like bupropion, zygan, nicotin inhalers etc. Medications can be a useful practice to help distract mind for desire to smoke.
- Consult a therapist to address emotional issues that drive your smoking. He will figure out situational triggers that push you to smoke.
Hormones generated by our body in response to stress may have serious implications. Some side effects are:
- Difficulty breathing
- Panic attacks
- Blurred eyesight
- Sleep problems
- Fatigue
- Muscle aches and headaches
- High blood pressure
- Feeling sick
- Sweating
- Changes to your period or menstrual cycle
Quitting smoking and side effects
In the beginning, it will affect both physiologically and physically. This will result in depression, anxiety, gastrointestinal problems, weight gain fatigue and lack of concentration. Although these side effects are unpleasant but keep in mind that these effects are temporary and quitting is most beneficial option at all levels. So try to quit smoking by the above methods.