23/05/2021
COMMIT TO QUIT!
1000 ways to die-To***co use!
On 31 May the World commemorates ***coDay2021, It's the day you and I, if we smoke, are going to commit to quit.
Just take an excursion with me into the body of a Smoker.
1.Appearance: You can't miss a smoker. He or she looks older than their age, with wrinkled skin yellow loose teeth, bad smell from the mouth, the skin and hair. This person had just been bleeding upon brushing their teeth. Sense of smell and taste, theliz no! Risk of skin cancer very high here.
2.Eyes: This is a person that might have poor vision, cataracts, dry eyes, and retinopathy
3.The Brain: The smoker will always be moody, anxious and depressed, with poor memory and easily gets fatigued. Ni****ne narrows blood vessels, creates deposits in blood vessels, there by increasing the risk of clot formation that may lead to strokes
4.The lungs: Smoke goes into the lungs as the dirt station. There it damages the Air sacs(alveoli) resulting in overly stretched lungs) emphysema), lung tissue stiffening leading to Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease and Chronic cough(Bronchitis). About 90 chemicals in To***co smoke are cancerogenous. One may develop Lung Cancer. These chemicals get into to***co when using pesticides for control of pests while growing to***co. Asthma may also be triggered or made worse by to***co smoke.
5. Other Cancers: Smokers stand at a greater risk of developing mouth cancers, nose, throat, lip and tongue cancers. Further more, we often see Pancreatic cancer kidney, liver, cervical(insuko use), Stomach, Bladder, Colon, Blood cancer.
6.Heart: Ni****ne narrows blood vessels and increases deposits or plaques in blood vessels, leading to Angina(Chest pains around the heart) /Coronary Heart Disease, Clot formation leading to poor blood supply to the heart and rest of body. Many get heart attacks as a result
7.Pregnancy Complications: Smoking women have a higher chance of getting ectopic pregnancies, they are prone to preterm deliveries, give birth to low birth weight babies. Abnormalities like cleft lip and palate are common in their babies. Babies may have brain, lung and Central nervous system damage before birth.
8.Immunity: To***co use may lead to reduced effectiveness of your Immune system rendering one vulnerable to many illnesses
9. Non-Communicable Diseases(NCDs): Ni****ne contained in To***co enhances delelopment of Hypertension as well as Type 2 Diabetes(Sugar disease), Strokes. Or atleast makes the control of such diseases difficult.
10.Fertility: If all the above do not scare you into quiting, what about if we told you that To***co may cause Erectile dysfunction? Won't you quit? Apart from causing Erectile dysfunction, it also may mess up the woman's hormones, as well as causing poor S***m quality. All these may lead to Infertility in couples.
Are you now ready to quit?
-Dr Teddy Andrew Mulenga - TOFAZA
***coDay2021