What are the harms of quitting smoking, and the disadvantages and benefits of quitting smoking

For patients with a long history of smoking and severe cravings, it is not recommended to quit smoking suddenly. Quitting smoking abruptly can cause both psychological and physical harm. Psychologically, there will be anxiety, irritability, insomnia, and extreme discomfort.

On the body, there may be proliferative lesions of the respiratory tract, cough, dizziness, headache, etc. In order to avoid the withdrawal reaction of abrupt quitting, it is recommended that patients should take a step-by-step approach to quitting smoking, and plan the decencing process and timing of smoking cessation in advance. Specifically, you can go to the corresponding department and receive the support and guidance of professional doctors.

After successfully quitting smoking, there is nothing ***, only benefits. However, withdrawal reactions may occur during smoking cessation, such as craving to smoke, anxiety, depression, restlessness, headaches, increased salivary gland secretion, difficulty concentrating, sleep disturbances, etc.

Smokers who stop smoking or reduce the amount of cigarettes smoked experience a series of unbearable withdrawal symptoms due to a sudden decrease in nicotine concentration, which can begin to appear a few hours after stopping smoking, and are most intense during the first 7 to 14 days of quitting, and then gradually lessen until they disappear. Most withdrawal symptoms last about 1 month, but some patients have a craving for smoking that lasts for months to years.

The above symptoms are normal reactions in the process of quitting smoking, and generally gradually decrease, but there may be recurrence in the middle, as long as you continue to insist on quitting smoking. Withdrawal symptoms associated with smoking cessation can also be improved with medications**.

What are the benefits of quitting smoking.

If you are a smoker, you should change this uncivilized and unhealthy behavior and quit it! If you quit successfully, you'll get the following benefits:

1) People who quit smoking live longer than those who continue to smoke. In general, people who quit smoking before the age of 50 have a 50 lower risk of dying within the next 15 years than those who continue to smoke.

2) The relative risk of lung cancer in smokers is 10-15 times that of non-smokers. After 10 years of quitting smoking, a smoker's risk of developing lung cancer is 30 to 50 percent lower than that of a continuing smoker.

3) Quitting smoking also reduces the risk of laryngeal, oral cancer, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, bladder cancer and many other cancers in smokers.

4) Smokers have twice as much risk of dying from coronary heart disease as non-smokers. Within a year of quitting, the risk decreases by 50 percent. After 15 years of quitting, the risk is close to that of a never-smoker.

5) Smokers have twice as much risk of dying from stroke as those who have never smoked. Some smokers can reduce this risk to the level of never-smokers within 5 years of quitting, while others need 15 years to receive this effect. (6) Smoking is the main cause of lung diseases.

When a person quits smoking, the risk of colds, pneumonia, and bronchitis decreases, and the rate of decline in lung function that occurs with age will be similar to that of a never-smoker.

7) After quitting smoking, you will not cause family conflicts due to smoking, and you can save a lot of money for 10 years after quitting smoking. You won't be fined for smoking in public.

8) Smoking in pregnant women makes the fetal and infant mortality rate 25-50 higher than that of normal non-smokers, and the average birth weight of infants is 200 grams lower than the normal value. If smoking cessation is started 4 months before pregnancy, these adverse effects can usually be modified.

9) After quitting smoking, you will be able to concentrate more on your studies and work, so that your face will appear moisturized and radiant. Make your sense of smell and taste more sensitive, and eating will taste better.

10) After quitting smoking, you will never bring a smell of smoke everywhere you go, and you will no longer let your family, friends, and colleagues eat "second-hand smoke", and you will appear more elegant, chic, and personable than smokers.

The pros and cons of quitting smoking are made clear.

First, the risk of heart attack is significantly reduced, respiratory function is significantly improved, the cilia on the lungs gradually recover, the skin tone begins to improve after 3 months, and the risk of cardiovascular disease is greatly reduced one year after quitting smoking.

I've been smoking cigarettes for many years, but my craving is not as great now as it used to be, thanks to the effectiveness of the cigarette stick.