Smoking
[Smoking is harmful to health] This sentence is printed on the cigarette case. Everyone knows that there are not few people who smoke.
In 2014, there were 360 million smokers in China, while about 740 million people were exposed to second-hand smoke.
The results are also remarkable:
Worldwide, 5.4 million people die of tobacco-related diseases every year, with China accounting for 1.2 million.
Most people think that smoking only hurts the lung and respiratory tract, which is related to lung cancer, tracheitis and emphysema.
However, few people know that smoking actually damages almost all organs of the whole body, including the digestive tract.
Some friends have been troubled by gastric ulcer, enteritis, acid regurgitation, heartburn, dyspepsia, constipation and so on for many years. They cannot get well over and over again. Have you ever smoked?
Dr. Zhu Haihang from the Department of Digestive Internal Medicine talked in detail about the relationship between smoking and digestive tract diseases from top to bottom.
Smokers have poor breath and frequent oral cancer.
People who smoke for a long time are prone to gum inflammation and tartar formation. Tartar aggravates periodontal disease, so among smokers, there are far more people with loose teeth and falling off teeth than non-smokers.
The plaque deposited on the tooth surface will produce odor, and the smoke will wander around the mouth and lungs, which will form a unique unpleasant tone.
In addition, smoke and local high temperature stimulation during combustion will damage oral mucosa and form leukoplakia, and 3% ~ 5% of leukoplakia will turn into oral cancer.
The data also show:
60 ~ 90% of oral cancer patients smoke.
Smokers are prone to heartburn and acid regurgitation, and esophageal cancer increases.
Many old smokers have heartburn and reflux symptoms.
Smoking relaxes the muscles at the gastroesophageal interface, which makes it easier for gastric acid to flow back into the esophagus. Moreover, smoke will increase the sensitivity of the esophagus to acid, and smokers will feel more heartburn.
However, long-term acid regurgitation will cause damage and variation of esophageal epidermal tissue and increase the risk of esophageal cancer.
Smokers love ulcers in their stomach and duodenum.
Smoking is currently recognized as a risk factor for digestive tract ulcer. Smokers are twice as likely to develop ulcer as non-smokers.
Nicotine can stimulate gastric acid pepsin secretion and reduce gastroduodenal blood flow. This will increase the risk of ulcer and promote complications of ulcer.
Smokers with gastroduodenal ulcer must give up smoking.
Smokers suffer from repeated old stomach diseases and high risk of gastric cancer.
Smokers often suffer from stomach discomfort and go to the hospital for examination. Gastroscopy results are superficial gastritis, often called functional dyspepsia. In this case, don’t always think about taboos, first consider quitting smoking.
Studies have shown that those who smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day have a 1.55 times higher risk of functional dyspepsia than non-smokers.
At the same time, the risk of gastric cancer among smokers is 50% ~ 60% higher than that among non-smokers, and about 10% of gastric cancer is closely related to smoking.
It should be mentioned that smokers are more prone to agitation and choking cough when undergoing gastroscopy. This will undoubtedly affect doctors’ careful observation of pathological changes and delay the discovery and confirmation of diseases.
In addition to the above mentioned diseases, smoking is also closely related to acute and chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer, colon polyps and colon cancer. More studies have shown that smoking can accelerate the transformation of liver diseases into liver cirrhosis and liver cancer.
For smokers, drugs are difficult to take effect and treatment is difficult.
At present, it is clear that the efficacy of many drugs will be affected by smoking.
Some drugs need to be increased in dosage to produce the same curative effect, while others have to be reduced because smoking increases the side effects.
In short, it becomes more difficult for smokers to use drugs reasonably and accurately.
Having said so much, to sum up, it is still the same sentence: smoking does no good to all harm, please quit smoking.
Luckily in the midst of misfortune, it is not too late to give up smoking
The harm of smoking to the digestive system mentioned above is only part of the impact of smoking on the body.
Fortunately, no matter how long you smoke, as long as you start quitting smoking, your overall health can be improved.
- After 20 minutes of smoking cessation, the soaring blood pressure and heart rate due to smoking gradually ease. After 12 hours of smoking cessation, the content of carbon monoxide in the blood will return to normal. After 2-3 weeks of smoking cessation, the circulation function and lung function of the human body begin to improve compared with the smoking period. After 1-9 months of smoking cessation, cough and shortness of breath are significantly reduced, and breathing begins to become smooth. Dry cough and weak expectoration are reduced. The risk of lung infection is reduced. After quitting smoking for one year, The increased risk of coronary heart disease due to smoking is reduced by 50%. After quitting smoking for 5 years, the increased risk of oral cancer, laryngeal cancer, esophageal cancer and bladder cancer due to smoking is reduced by 50%, and the risk of stroke and cervical cancer is reduced to the general level. After quitting smoking for 10 years, the risk of death from lung cancer is reduced to the general level, and the risk of laryngeal cancer and pancreatic cancer is gradually reduced.
Friends who always say it is difficult to quit smoking can not stop at once when they start to quit smoking, and use these small skills: throw away half of the smoke; Smoke is sucked into the mouth and spit out. Do not enter the lungs. Smoke a few fewer cigarettes every day than the day before and gradually reduce the amount.
You can do it step by step, but you must remember that if you make up your mind, you must stick to it.
This is the expression of being responsible for the health of oneself and the people around you.