Recently, a paper published in the Lancet magazine listed the causes of death in China in 2017. We picked out the top five causes of death:
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Many people do not know that a daily habit of many people may lead to the above diseases.
This habit is-smoking. Quitting smoking is a commonplace topic. Today we found many smokers, smokers and their relatives and friends and talked.
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Tyson, 23, sent a 1080-word [heartfelt message] to his father WeChat, hoping to persuade him to quit smoking.
However, his father only replied [oh] and then continued smoking.
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The 2016 Report on the Current Situation of Smoking in China surveyed 100,000 respondents. Among them, 60% of smokers have tried to quit smoking and failed, while less than 10% have successfully quit smoking.
However, many smokers have overlooked one thing:
You may not care about your health, but every time you light a cigarette, you may disappoint those who care about you.
Nine months after I was pregnant with my baby, I had another quarrel last night because my husband smoked. At the beginning of the year, I promised to quit smoking again. The reason was that I couldn’t smoke at work to get on well with others. I was still smoking when I changed my job for the first two months. The reason was that this was his only spiritual food.
Because he had quarreled N times about the size of smoking, he couldn’t help crying and snot off the screen when writing comments at the moment.
This is a passage from a reader [little girl] who left a message backstage. But the following message from her was quite different-
Reader [Gong Changzhang]: Before I was with her, she didn’t know that I was a 9-year-old smoker. She said that I didn’t like boys who smoked. I gave up from the moment I was together.
What she often said was: I didn’t know I smoked like what.
People who can quit smoking for their partners probably really like each other.
Not only lovers, but also our families do not want us to smoke.
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The son said, “You are very disappointing.”
-Chen Gan has been smoking for 54 years; Quit smoking for 2 years
Chen Gan, 74, is a heavy smoker, at least one pack a day.
Chen Gan’s height is not high: 170cm, but his blood pressure is very high, often soaring to 180mmHg, and he does not take medicine according to the doctor’s advice.
Seven years ago in the summer, Chen Gan was smoking a cigarette at a friend’s house and suddenly fainted. He was sent to the hospital, his blood pressure rose to 200, and his family signed three critical notices in one afternoon.
From the emergency room, intensive care unit, operating room to the general ward, Chen Gan lay back and forth in the hospital for three months, spending 20,300,000 yuan on treatment.
Before leaving the hospital, the doctor asked him to stop smoking.
Chen Gan survived the disaster and stayed honest for several months until one day his friend handed him a cigarette. He didn’t refuse and didn’t feel uncomfortable after smoking. So after one cigarette, he quickly resumed smoking boxes after boxes.
However, he did not dare to smoke at home. The cigarette and lighter were hidden in the pocket of a pair of trousers in the wardrobe. When he was addicted to smoking, he went downstairs to the small park not far from his home, smoked one or two, and then walked for another half hour, waiting for the smoke to disperse before returning home.
Chen Gan’s wife is very sharp. Although she didn’t catch him, she also noticed Chen Gan smoking and disciplined him for this. Chen Gan has a stubborn temper and often denies it. As they spoke, the volume became louder and louder, and the house was like Xiuluo Yard.
When the child urged the fight, his wife cried and said, “I really can’t get along with your father.” However, Chen Gan did not speak and went downstairs to smoke.
[I don’t have any hobbies either, just like this.] Chen Gan said to us.
Chen Gan continued to smoke and quarrels continued.
One day, he was smoking downstairs again when his son caught him. The son said nothing on the spot. When he came home, the son said to him, “You are really disappointing.”
[The scene is very similar to when I said him before. I have quit since that time.
Now take a walk every day and talk to old friends. The days pass by and it is not as difficult as I think.]
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Even if the people around you don’t say it, as an adult, you should realize the importance of quitting smoking.
Many people only know the connection between smoke and lung cancer.
In fact, tobacco is related to the five major causes of death in China: stroke, ischemic heart disease, respiratory cancer, COPD and liver cancer.
Look at the lungs of smokers, you will give up smoking.
-Ma Yao smoked 8.5 years old; Quit smoking for 2 years
Ma Yao started smoking from junior high school and did not quit smoking even if he got chronic pharyngitis.
Ma Yao is also a criminal police officer. He often has to assist forensic doctors in taking photos, so he has experienced many anatomical sites.
When the forensic doctor opened the chest, the deceased’s lungs were exposed to the field of vision.
What impressed Ma Yao most was the body of a baby with bright red lungs. Most people are dark red.
And there is a 40-year-old heavy smoker, [the color of the two lungs is black, that kind of black is not the kind of black of the mobile phone screen, feeling a bit like… asphalt…]
[At that time, my heart was mixed. It touched me a lot to tell the truth. Unless I saw it with my own eyes, it was hard to believe that it was an organ of a human being. I used to think that the pictures on the Internet were all fake. It was alarmist talk. It was very painful to see it with my own eyes.]
Since then, Ma Yao has given up smoking.
Left slip is in turn
Non-smokers, 15-year-old, 30-year-old lungs
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In fact, about 60% of smokers quit because of [their own health].
However, many people do not stop smoking until their bodies begin to have problems. Lucky people may realize the harm of smoking when climbing stairs, panting, inexplicable chest pain or coughing up blood, but some may directly come up with lung cancer.
Reader [Iced Sweet Soya-bean Milk]: My father found out lung cancer and gave it up directly after knowing it. Fortunately, it was in the early stage. After the operation, he hoped that there would be no recurrence, and he also hoped that others would not regret it until it was irreparable.
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I asked a smoker who claimed that he was not a big smoker why he did not quit smoking. She said, “Smoking is a social activity. It is impolite for others not to accept cigarettes.”
Can smoking really help socialize?
Among the smokers I came into contact with, many people’s first cigarette was because of [social intercourse]. From exhausting Guohua, an educated youth who went to the countryside 50 years ago, to Wang Huo, a boy who was still studying in the second grade 10 years ago, everyone started smoking [naturally]: [because the people around him are smoking and want to integrate into them.]
[Smoke is a bridge between people.]
[Quitting smoking and drinking is quitting friends.]
…….
I heard all these [golden sentences] from smokers, but is this really the case?
In the eighties and nineties, boys were in power in the computer industry. Lu Jie groped out a way of communication under such a background:
[A pack of cigarettes, one for you and one for me, the benefits of this kind of communication are obvious. You pass a cigarette first, two people light a cigarette, and then talk: How did you do your last job, and your next work plan is what? The two of us will leave each other’s phone numbers and contact each other later.]
[But the environment is different now.]
Lu Jie’s conversation changed [now there are many female comrades in this industry, and more importantly, everyone knows that smoking is not good.]
However, Xiao an, who works in a public institution, told us: “cigarette and wine are really different. China’s wine culture is serious. If you don’t drink, the leader really thinks you don’t give face, but you say you don’t smoke. On the contrary, the leader will say: Hey, this young man is nice.”
Wang Huo recalled when he was in high school, [feeling a little silly. Now think about it, people who did not smoke at that time also blended in well.]
Moreover, true friends will support our quitting smoking.
Interpol Ma Yao used to meet his colleagues and both smoked first. Colleagues learned that he was going to quit smoking, so they hid from him when they saw him smoking. They knew that he was suffering from smoking and sometimes brought him lollipops and chewing gum when he came back from buying cigarettes.
[Friends who can quit smoking are not worth making, are they?] Lu Jie, 49, said.
Lu Jie is a Yueju opera enthusiast. After quitting smoking, she joined an amateur Yueju opera troupe and made a group of amateur amateurs. However, those friends who smoked together before still have contact. They will not persuade Lu Jie to smoke either.
You can refer to these ways to quit smoking.
Quitting smoking is really not difficult, and it is really important to [muster up momentum]. Through interviews with more than 10 smokers, we have summarized the most down-to-earth smoking cessation plan for everyone. Please ask for it on demand:
One step at a time
On the day he decided to quit smoking, exhausting Guohua handed over his lighter, ashtray, etc. to his wife and never touched a cigarette again.
He used to smoke a cigarette as soon as he entered the house. He slowly replaced it with reading newspapers, reading books and drinking tea, and passed by a little bit. Just past
If you feel that your willpower is not firm enough, you can try to set goals for yourself and motivate yourself.
For example, use the money left over from quitting smoking to buy things you like, you can buy a pair of shoes after quitting smoking for one month, and you can buy another dress after quitting smoking for two months… in this way, you have a hope, and you can tell yourself when you smoke: [just endure for two more days].
[substitution] therapy
Find a substitute for cigarettes is more common than the one-step method. Chewing gum and lollipops are all right. Eating too many of these snacks may make you sick, but
In addition, nicotine patches and other special smoking cessation products can also help us to get through the initial period of smoking cessation.
As for the role of electronic cigarettes, there is also no final conclusion in the academic circle. Some of the people we interviewed successfully quit smoking through electronic cigarettes, while others ingested more nicotine because of the convenience of electronic cigarettes.
In addition, if you are really addicted to smoking, you can consider using smoking cessation drugs under the guidance of doctors.
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In the process of quitting smoking, we may face many temptations.
Especially at the beginning of quitting smoking, many friends do not know that you quit smoking and will take the initiative to give you cigarettes.
This is the threshold for many people to fail to quit smoking, and they may refuse it once or twice. However, when they drink a few glasses of wine or feel that it doesn’t matter if they occasionally quit smoking for a few months, they will pick up the bad habit of smoking again.
In the first year of exhausting Guohua’s smoking cessation, the new couple went to the wedding to offer cigarettes, because [smoking] is homophonic with [Xi], and there is a local custom that the new couple offer cigarettes at the wedding.
Exhaustive Guohua refused to take off and said that he had given up smoking, but all the people at the table said that he was fond of smoking, so Exhaustive Guohua lit the cigarette, but when the newcomer left, he put out the cigarette. In the future, everyone knew that he had really given up smoking and did not advise him.
The benefits of this change are obvious.
The 69-year-old exhausting Guohua told me that several of his old classmates had cerebral thrombosis and two were even semi-paralyzed, while exhausting Guohua even had white hair slower than theirs.
The biggest difference between him and these old friends is that he has given up smoking for 27 years.
When collecting stories about quitting smoking, I was deeply impressed by a simple remark from a reader:
[Before my father died of lung cancer, it was his last wish to let me quit smoking.].
No matter for yourself or for those who care about you, quit smoking.
This article was written by Jiang Yuan, vice president of China Tobacco Control Association.Audit
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