Shah Rukh Khan announced on his birthday on November 2 that he has quit smoking. King Khan of Bollywood Shahrukh Khan, who ruled the hearts of millions, started smoking cigarettes at the age of 26 and continued smoking until the age of 59.
The best part about Shahrukh's quitting smoking is that this decision will give many of his fans the willpower to quit smoking too.
The truth is that every smoker in the world knows that every puff of a cigarette damages his lungs. It has a negative effect on all the organs of the body. Due to which the risk of dangerous diseases like lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, asthma and COPD is increasing.
Shahrukh Khan has said that now he is having trouble breathing. This raises the question of how many days after quitting smoking does heart health begin to improve? How long does it take for the body to recover from the damage caused by smoking?
According to the American Cancer Society, improvement begins within minutes of quitting. 20 minutes after smoking the last cigarette, our blood pressure starts to return to normal, heart rate also starts to return to normal.
However, how long it takes for the heart to fully recover depends on how long a person has been smoking and how many cigarettes they smoke in a day.
today' Health water In ' we will know how long it takes to recover after smoking. You will also know that-
- How many people are dying in the country and the world due to smoking?
- What diseases does smoking increase the risk of?
- How does our heart heal when we quit smoking?
Millions of people die every year due to smoking
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1 in 5 deaths in the US each year is caused by cigarette smoking. Here every year 4 lakh 80 thousand people die due to smoking. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), every year more than eight million people around the world die at a young age due to smoking. More than 1 million people die every year in India due to smoking.
What diseases does smoking increase the risk of? Cigarette smoke passes through our lungs and reaches the heart. It is then absorbed into the blood by the heart. This smoke reaches our vital organs like brain and kidney through blood. It affects the functioning of all organs. Apart from this, the carcinogens in the smoke later cause cancer.
Smoking increases the risk of many other deadly diseases, see graphic:
Dr. Director of Cardiology Department of Jaipur Narayana Hospital. Devendra Srimal says that there is only one way to prevent these dangerous diseases – to quit smoking. If this question often comes to your mind that how many days after quitting smoking will your heart be back to normal, let's understand it through some graphics below.
First of all, blood pressure is normalized Blood pressure increases due to the presence of nicotine in cigarettes. There are many other causes of high blood pressure, such as smoke building up in the walls of blood vessels, causing the vessels to narrow. It also increases the risk of blood clots. So the heart has to work harder to move the blood. It increases blood pressure.
When we quit smoking, we stop getting nicotine, the main cause of high blood pressure. So it gradually becomes normal. Heart rate also returns to normal due to the absence of nicotine. This process starts within half an hour after smoking the last cigarette.
After about 12 to 24 hours, cigarette smoke also starts to lower the levels of dissolved monoxide in our blood. It reduces the risk of heart attack. See in the graphic what healing happens in the body over the next 2-3 weeks and 1 to 9 months:
After one year the risk of heart disease and cancer is halved The risk of diseases such as cancer, heart disease and asthma increases many times in smokers than in other people. If a person quits smoking, the risk of coronary heart disease is halved within a year of quitting. This means, our heart and body recover half of its capacity in just one year.
Heart and body become equal in 10 to 15 years 10 years after quitting smoking, the risk of dying from lung cancer is halved compared to non-smokers. The risk of bladder cancer and cervical cancer is also reduced by about half.
If about 15 years have passed since quitting smoking, the risk of coronary heart disease remains the same as that of non-smokers.
How to quit smoking To quit smoking, first of all we have to find a motivation based on which we can convince ourselves that we want to quit smoking. It can be anything. As we do not want our children to become passive smokers. We want to live a healthy life.
After this, it is to see what emotional triggers make us turn to smoking. Controlling them will make it easier to quit smoking. Apart from this we also have to take care of trigger foods. Which can increase cravings for smoking cigarettes.
Apart from this, carefully observe and follow the points given in the graphic below. If you are a smoker, make a commitment to quit this toxic habit today.
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