Are you happy after quitting smoking? Using my own experience, I will tell you the truth about smoking

This question is a bit complicated. Whether you are happy after quitting smoking depends on many aspects of life. Life is not only affected by smoking. If we only talk about the impact of smoking on people's lives, my actual feeling is that I feel much better after quitting smoking.

My process of quitting smoking was simple

I am an old smoker. When I smoke a lot, I smoke more than a pack a day, and I only smoke one type of cigarette. In fact, it is not that a certain type of cigarette is good or bad, but when you get used to it, your bronchi will adapt to it, and your cough will be better. If you smoke different cigarettes, you will feel uncomfortable. In order to adapt to the popularity of cigarette brands in society, I will switch to different brands of cigarettes every few years. Once I do this, I will always feel uncomfortable for a while, and I can't change after I get used to it.

Many people don’t have this feeling, which may mean that I have a sensitive constitution.

I have quit smoking many times, the longest time was several months, but each time I failed. There are many reasons for relapse. Sometimes I was "seduced" by friends and relatives, and I was reluctant to do it; sometimes I encountered something unpleasant and naturally started smoking. Tobacco and alcohol are inseparable. A cigarette after a meal is better than living a god. I think many smokers and drinkers feel the same way.

But later, I went to see a doctor because of illness. The doctor asked me to quit smoking. When I was still hesitating and looking for excuses, the doctor woke me up with one sentence: "Do you want to live or smoke? Choose it yourself!" I finally chose to live, and I quit smoking decisively. This time I was very thorough. I had good cigarettes in my pocket for business reception, but I was determined not to smoke. Even if my friends "tempted" me, I would refuse.

Finally, five years have passed and everything is fine. My experience is that quitting smoking is not difficult, the key is whether you want to quit in your soul.

So am I happy after quitting smoking?

Of course, there are happy times and unhappy times. But quitting smoking at least did not make me more unhappy, but made me feel much more comfortable. First of all, the habit of coughing and spitting for many years has been eliminated. I no longer need to put a trash can at the head of the bed to spit when I sleep. Secondly, with exercise, my health is getting better and better. Some minor bronchial and lung problems I had before have been eliminated.

So, if we only talk about cigarettes, smoking and not smoking are completely different, and you will be much happier after quitting. Many people have a misunderstanding that people have smoked for many years in their lives, and they are used to it. Various organs and tissues in the body have also adapted to the ingredients of cigarettes. Suddenly quitting will cause the body to not adapt, and will cause physical problems. Therefore, you cannot quit smoking suddenly. You can smoke less and quit slowly.

In fact, this statement is just an excuse for smoking and has no scientific basis. If drinking a small amount of alcohol has a little positive effect on the body, smoking is harmful and has no benefit. The so-called gaining weight and poor concentration after quitting smoking are mainly because some people insist on using other foods to relieve their cravings after quitting smoking, and of course they will gain weight if they eat too much.

The so-called lack of concentration means that deep down in your soul you still don't want to quit smoking, and you always think about taking a puff, so of course it's difficult to concentrate on other aspects. If your mind is full of cigarettes, you can't quit even if you try 100 times.

Research shows that the so-called smoking addiction is a dependence on cigarettes, which is mainly psychological dependence, with little physiological dependence. Unlike drugs, if you are addicted to drugs, you may die if you don't smoke. When you are addicted to cigarettes, not smoking will not have any bad effects on your body, but will only make your body better and better. Therefore, those who want to quit smoking under this banner or have this idea subconsciously and are unwilling to quit smoking, can only quit successfully if they make up their minds and realize the harmfulness of smoking.

Some examples of people dying from smoking around us

I know a few people who are heavy smokers. They smoke one or two packs a day. When people ask them to smoke less, they cite some examples of people who died early without smoking, and others who lived to be 80 or 90 years old with smoking. They also say that they really can't quit smoking and that quitting smoking is more painful than death, but they still smoke. Then they suddenly find out that they have lung cancer and quit smoking immediately. It turns out that saying that you can't quit is bullshit.

But it was too late, he passed away soon after, in the prime of his life.

There was another person who was a heavy smoker and drinker. He suddenly stopped taking medicine for high blood pressure and said that a master had told him to drink a certain tea to lower blood pressure without any side effects. After a while, I heard that this person also passed away suddenly. No one knew what had happened to him. For this kind of person, what other options are there except for a sudden attack of cardiovascular disease in the heart, brain, kidney and kidney?

These people are typical examples of not believing in science. They always like to speculate on scientific things based on their own logic of eating, drinking, defecating and urinating, understand individual cases as universal laws, and find some excuses to justify their bad habits, which can only cause endless harm.

Big data research shows that smokers are 4 to 5 times more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smokers, and heavy smokers are 10 to 30 times more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smokers. What is big data? It is the data obtained by comparing 10,000, 100,000, or 1 million smokers and non-smokers. Only such data is scientific.

Some people subconsciously look for various reasons to justify smoking in order to continue their bad habit of smoking. For example, they compare an example of a smoker who lives longer with an example of a non-smoker who lives shorter. In fact, they know that they are deceiving themselves, because there are many factors that affect a person's health and longevity, such as genes, environment, living habits, etc., and it is not just affected by smoking.

Under the same conditions, non-smokers are healthier and live longer than smokers. This is the scientific conclusion.

Why does smoking have such a big impact on the human body?

This is because tobacco contains a variety of toxic substances. Studies have shown that during the burning process of cigarettes, more than 3,000 toxic chemicals are produced, including nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide, cyanide, radioactive isotopes, heavy metals, etc.; the clear carcinogens and promoters include benzopyrene, nitrosamines, β-naphthylamine, septa, radioactive polonium, phenolic compounds, etc.

If a person smokes for a long time, the carcinogens in the smoke will repeatedly stimulate the bronchial mucosa and glands, leading to an increasing risk of cancer. Therefore, the longer you smoke, the higher your risk of cancer. Studies have found that the incidence of lung cancer in people who have smoked for more than 15 years is more than 4 times that of non-smokers; and the incidence of cancer in people who have smoked for more than 20 years increases with the age of smoking. For people who have smoked for 60 years, the incidence of lung cancer is 100 times higher than that of non-smokers.

Recent studies have found that the radioactive substances in cigarette smoke have a great impact on the body. The risk of cancer caused by radiation from smoking one cigarette is equivalent to 0.01~0.04mGy of X-ray exposure. If you smoke 20 cigarettes, it is equivalent to receiving 0.8mGy of X-ray exposure. However, when you go to the hospital to take a chest X-ray, the X-ray exposure dose is only 0.4mGy. It can be seen that smoking a pack of cigarettes a day is equivalent to going to the hospital for two chest X-rays a day!

In fact, smoking does more than just increase the risk of lung cancer. It is also closely related to emphysema and cor pulmonale, thereby increasing the risk of hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes and stroke. It also increases the risk of dozens of other cancers, including oral cancer, laryngeal cancer, esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, pancreatic cancer, intestinal cancer, etc.

Cancer is caused by gene mutations, and the gene mutations of smokers and non-smokers are different. For example, there are three gene mutations related to lung cancer, namely KRAS, EGFR and ALK. The main gene mutation of lung cancer in smokers is KRAS, while that of non-smokers is EGFR or ALK. Currently, targeted drugs are mainly for EGFR and ALK, while there is no specific drug for KRAS mutation. In other words, even if there is a drug to treat lung cancer now, only non-smokers can enjoy this condition.

If you want to live a healthier and longer life, quit smoking now!

Now, the scientific community and the mainstream world have long recognized the serious harm of smoking, but why do many people still want to smoke and refuse to quit? This is because many people have a fluke mentality. Cigarettes are not strong poisons that will kill you immediately after smoking them, and people's life span is affected by many factors, not just smoking. Some people deceive themselves and always use some examples of people who live longer than others to comfort themselves.

But once the harmful effects of smoking have accumulated to a critical point, it will be too late to regret. I would like to advise those addicts who are still indulging in smoking to look at the examples of people who have suffered from various diseases and are living a life worse than death due to smoking, and wake up. For the sake of your own health and happiness for your family, quit smoking immediately, starting from now. Ten years later, you will definitely be glad that you made a major and correct decision in your life today.

In fact, quitting smoking is not as difficult as some people imagine and claim. In my experience, the key is to quit smoking with your mind. As long as you believe from the bottom of your heart that smoking has only disadvantages and no benefits at all, you will definitely be able to quit.

Some people may say that they have been smoking for decades and the harm is deep enough, so quitting will not help. In fact, this idea is wrong. Even for those who really get cancer from smoking, quitting smoking will have a much better treatment outcome than not quitting, and their life span will be extended.

Studies have shown that one day, one week, one month, or one year after quitting smoking, the body will experience positive changes, from brain to heart and lung function to skin, teeth will become whiter, and the mental outlook will also be greatly improved. As the time of quitting smoking increases, the toxins in the body will gradually disappear and eventually return to normal.

Therefore, it is never too late to quit smoking. The key is to make up your mind now and act decisively. Don't wait. The sooner the better.

The excuse of quitting smoking after finishing half a pack, a few packs, or a few cartons of cigarettes is that you have not yet realized how toxic cigarettes are, and you don't want to quit. Think about it, smoking these cigarettes will cause more harm to your body, and immediately breaking up and burning these cigarettes will reduce the harm. This will make you more determined and less likely to relapse.

After quitting smoking, don't sit at the mahjong table all the time, or always want to eat something to make up for it. Instead, relax your mind, stay optimistic, and participate in more healthy outdoor activities. The evil of smoking will soon leave you. After a while, you will feel disgusted when you take a puff of cigarette, smell or even see cigarettes, and you will really live a healthy and smoke-free life.

Quitting smoking can save money, improve health, and make the air you breathe fresher. Why not? Welcome to discuss, thank you for reading.

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