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Is quitting smoking bad for your health?

If you can successfully quit smoking, you may reap 8 benefits

By Melanie M HooperPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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Smoking is harmful to health, this is a well-known thing, but there are still many people, as always, smoking day after day, even if there are some people around because of smoking cough, and even some people suffer from lung cancer because of smoking, but still not willing to throw away their hands of cigarettes.

Some people have thought about quitting smoking, and some have quit a few times, but they still can't get what they want, they feel that smoking for a long time is not suitable for quitting, but also think that quitting smoking is not good for the body, then, quitting smoking is, as they say, will be bad for the body? Let's find out!

In the TV series we have seen how some smokers quit smoking, smoking addiction, will be crazy, and sometimes very painful, so sometimes can only use extraordinary means to tie them up, after "a few days and nights" to slowly stop, during this period is very painful.

Many people who have quit smoking, in the process of quitting, will panic, have anxiety, lack concentration, have a poor appetite, have poor sleep, and so on. When these phenomena occur, they mistakenly think that this is the damage that quitting smoking has done to their bodies, and they mistakenly think that quitting smoking is bad for their bodies. There is no need to be alarmed when these symptoms occur in people who have quit smoking. These are withdrawal reactions in the process of quitting smoking, which is normal and not a negative effect of quitting on the body.

Generally, the withdrawal reaction will appear a few hours after quitting smoking and will be strongest in about 14 days, and then the symptoms will slowly decrease and finally disappear. Of course, the duration of the withdrawal reaction varies depending on the age and age of the smoker, and many people have withdrawal symptoms that last a month or more.

But you can rest assured that quitting smoking will not cause harm to your body, will not lead to endocrine disorders, and will not lead to chronic diseases such as prostate. Endocrine disorders are caused to some extent by smoking.

If you can successfully quit smoking, what benefits will it bring to you?

1, your sense of taste will become better and better eating more and more fragrant.

2, your bad breath will improve and your teeth will become whiter.

3. Your cough will be relieved and your throat will not feel like a foreign body.

4, blood pressure will slowly normalize, reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease.

5, improve the quality of sleep and sleep more and more deeply.

6、The phenomenon of dizziness and headache will also be slowly reduced.

7. Reduce the risk of cancer, especially the risk of lung cancer.

8, extend life expectancy so that you live younger and younger, healthier and healthier!

So, how do old smokers properly quit smoking?

1, quit smoking should be gradual

Some people have been smoking for many years, or smoke a lot of cigarettes every day, if all stop at once, the body can not accept it, and it is easy to have withdrawal syndrome. Therefore, it is important to quit smoking in the right way. Do not think that you can quit at once, otherwise not only will you not be able to quit smoking, it is likely to return to smoking.

The correct approach is to gradually reduce the amount of smoke for old smokers, if you were to smoke ten cigarettes a day, you just start to reduce one by one, until finally quit smoking, so that the body can adapt, slowly the body will not appear very uncomfortable withdrawal reaction.

2. You can learn to distract yourself

In the process of quitting smoking, you can do some things you like to do as a distraction, such as singing, dancing, fitness, watching movies, listening to music, and so on. Through these ways and means, you can help to distract part of your attention, to a certain extent, can improve the success rate of quitting smoking.

3, drink more tea

We can also drink more tea in general, because tea contains caffeine, tea polyphenols, vitamins, and other nutrients. Among them, the caffeine in tea can stimulate the central nervous system and play a calming and refreshing role. If you are in the process of quitting smoking, there is a smoking addiction, you may want to drink a cup of tea, you can refresh your brain and help ease the withdrawal reaction.

Quitting smoking is not as difficult as you might think, as long as you are determined and persevere, not only will not bring harm to the body but also be conducive to good health, so people who want to quit smoking, do not be afraid, bold to quit it!

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