Tobacco smoking is responsible for the deaths of approximately seven million people each year, according to the World Health Organization. It is dangerous to your health, regardless of the way you smoke it.
Cigarettes contain about 600 ingredients. When they burn, they generate more than 7,000 chemicals. Many of those chemicals are poisonous and don’t just affect and harm your heart, they can affect nearly every organ in your body. Smoking is a major cause of cardiovascular disease that is considered as the largest cause of death in the United States, killing more than 800,000 people a year. More than 16 million Americans have heart disease. Almost 8 million have had a heart attack and 7 million have had a stroke. www.heart.org How smoking harms your cardiovascular system and increases your risk of having a Sudden Cardiac Arrest? 1. Cigarette smoke increases your risk of Atherosclerosis and harms your blood cells, causing the blood vessels to become thick and narrow. 2. Smoking raises your blood pressure to unhealthy levels, which is considered as one of the most important causes of sudden cardiac arrest. 3. Smoking decreases HDL (good) cholesterol in your blood that helps remove other forms of bad cholesterol from your bloodstream. Read more about the bad cholesterol and how can it damage your heart. 4. Smoking increases the tendency for blood to clot. Sudden cardiac arrest occurs when arteries that carry blood to the heart muscle are narrowed by plaque or blocked by clots. This blockage makes the heart muscle become starved for oxygen and the blood can no longer flow properly to various parts of the body. How to quit smoking? Quitting smoking is difficult but it is not impossible. 1st step: Decision. 2nd step: Get rid of all your cigarettes. 3rd step: Awareness. Within 4th Step: Staying tobacco-free. How could you get through the rough spots after quitting? Every time you light up a cigarette, you are saying that your life isn't worth living. Save your heart and the hearts of those you love and quit smoking today. Reference www.rehabilitateyourheart.wordpress.com/category/recovery-from-heart-disease/
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