No Smoking Day 2024: Apart from damaging the lungs, smoking can cause infertility

New Delhi: No Smoking Day 2024: Smoking is a habit that harms not only the smoker but also the people around him. For many people it is a means of relieving stress. This is because cigarettes contain tobacco, which contains a substance called nicotine and is addictive. As soon as it enters our body through cigarette smoke, it affects our brain and nerves. Due to which the person feels good and comfortable.

Then we feel like smoking again and again, but every time smoking does not feel as good as the first time and to feel the same sensation, people start smoking more. In this way it becomes addictive. After which it becomes very difficult to leave it.

disadvantages of smoking

When cigarette tobacco burns, many hazardous gases are released, including carbon monoxide, sulfur oxides and other gases. These gases enter our body and start damaging the airways and lungs. This can cause symptoms of CPOD as well as asthma. Excessive mucus can also be a problem. Apart from this, more than 300 chemicals are released, which can cause cancer.

The main cause of lung cancer is smoking. Due to smoking, some of the decaying particles in the smoke that enter the lungs also reach inside the body and enter the blood vessels and start blocking them, thereby increasing the risk of heart attack and stroke. Not only this, blockage of veins in the legs can also lead to the problem of gangrene.

Disadvantages of smoking in women

It is not that the harms of smoking are less in women. They also have to face similar dangers. Apart from this, smoking also affects their fertility. If a woman is pregnant, smoking during that time also affects the health of the child. If you are not pregnant, you may face difficulties in conceiving in the future.

Symptoms of harm caused by smoking

• • feeling tired due to lung damage

• • excessive mucus formation

• • body pain

• • morning cough and phlegm

• • difficulty breathing

If these symptoms appear, the sooner you contact a doctor, the better. The doctor can start the treatment by examining the patient and ascertaining the severity of the condition with the help of techniques like PFT, CT scan or X-ray.