Most people associate tobacco smoking with breathing problems and lung cancer. But did you know about 20% of all deaths from heart disease in the U.S. are directly related to smoking. Smoking is also a major cause of heart disease in men and women.
If you are smoke, stopping is the singel most important step you can take to reduce you risk
of having a heart attack. People who smoke are almost twice as likely have heart attack as people who
have never smoked. Also, the number of cigarettes you smoke each day and the number of years you have smoked will increase your risk of heart disease and having a heart attack.
Cigarettes and other frome of tobacco including cigar, pipe tobacco, snuff and chewing tobacco contain the addictive drug, nicotine. Nicotine is quickly absorbed into the blood stream when a tobacco product is smoked, inheled, or chewed. A typical smoker will take 10 mins which for cigarette over a period of 5 minutes which for someone smoking 1 1/2 pack per day would be over 300 'hits' of nicotine daily.
The nicotine in cigarettes can increas the risk of heart disease in several ways:
If you are smoke, stopping is the singel most important step you can take to reduce you risk
of having a heart attack. People who smoke are almost twice as likely have heart attack as people who
have never smoked. Also, the number of cigarettes you smoke each day and the number of years you have smoked will increase your risk of heart disease and having a heart attack.
Cigarettes and other frome of tobacco including cigar, pipe tobacco, snuff and chewing tobacco contain the addictive drug, nicotine. Nicotine is quickly absorbed into the blood stream when a tobacco product is smoked, inheled, or chewed. A typical smoker will take 10 mins which for cigarette over a period of 5 minutes which for someone smoking 1 1/2 pack per day would be over 300 'hits' of nicotine daily.
The nicotine in cigarettes can increas the risk of heart disease in several ways:
- Increase blood preassure and heart rate.
- Decrease the oxygen supplied to the heart muscle.
- Damage the call that line the coronary arteries and other blood vessels in you body so they are less flexible.
- Increase the chance of blood cloutting which is a risk for a heart attack or a stoke.
As welll as nicotine, tobacco smoke contains chemicals like formaldehyde, tar, carbon monoxide, ammonia, and cyanide. when inheled or exposed to this smoke, many of these chemicals also increase the risk of heart disease as well as being know carcinogens. Reasearc has shown that non-smokers risk of heart disease than those who don't. The good news is the that you risk of heart disease is cut in half after quitting tobacco smoking for one year. After 15 Year without smoking you risk is similar to someone who has never smoked. of course, quitting smoking will have other benefits for reducing you risk of the disease, emphysema, shuk as lung and throat cancer, gum disease and ulcers. People who have given up smoking also say the feel healtheir and even look better, and many notice they enjoy flavors and smell more.
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