Smoking - The Inside Story
I'm sure you have all seen the grisly photographs on cigarette packets.
You know about the cancer and heart disease risks but have you really considered what is going on when you light up a cigarette? You place a cigarette in your mouth.
You light it up and inhale.
The smoke makes its way down your throat and into your lungs.
The smoke irritates everything that it encounters.
Your body has built in mechanisms for protecting; one of these is the cough reflex.
When you first start smoking you most likely coughed as the smoke hit your lungs.
But over time your lungs have become desensitised to this invader.
The problem is that your lungs have become desensitised to other airborne irritants such as dust and pollen.
Sure smokers cough and gasp but this is more a result of lung damage and dysfunction.
Next the smoke enters the tiny structures which allow a gas to exchange into the blood.
These poor little units strain and gasp as the smoke is forced into the blood stream.
This barrier is severely impaired by smoking.
We know that smoking creates over 4000 nasty chemicals, all of these have now entered your bloodstream.
They are now circulating around and around finding their way to every cell in your body.
Your heart has the job of pumping this contaminated blood, not only through its own valves but to every organ in your body.
Your cells are dying at an accelerated rate.
Your energy is low, your cells are more like little rubbish dumps than engines creating energy.
Your organs of detoxification are struggling.
Their cells are damaged and now the liver and kidneys are struggling to purify your blood, to keep you alive, and in return you light up another cigarette.
Your digestion is producing excess acid about a cup for every packet of cigarettes.
Your brain is flipping around as you experience dopamine highs and lows.
Your pancreas is in a state of confusion as the nicotine keeps your blood sugar high and your bowel doesn't know what day it is because the nicotine receptors are trying to give you diarrhea.
Your cardio vascular system is shutting down and you notice your hands and feet are colder than before.
This is because your peripheral circulation is failing.
Your struggling heart finally pumps the blood back to your troubled lungs and with a hacking cough the toxic residues of smoking finally exit your body.
Unfortunately much of the toxicity remains behind to begin a slow destructive process.
You know about the cancer and heart disease risks but have you really considered what is going on when you light up a cigarette? You place a cigarette in your mouth.
You light it up and inhale.
The smoke makes its way down your throat and into your lungs.
The smoke irritates everything that it encounters.
Your body has built in mechanisms for protecting; one of these is the cough reflex.
When you first start smoking you most likely coughed as the smoke hit your lungs.
But over time your lungs have become desensitised to this invader.
The problem is that your lungs have become desensitised to other airborne irritants such as dust and pollen.
Sure smokers cough and gasp but this is more a result of lung damage and dysfunction.
Next the smoke enters the tiny structures which allow a gas to exchange into the blood.
These poor little units strain and gasp as the smoke is forced into the blood stream.
This barrier is severely impaired by smoking.
We know that smoking creates over 4000 nasty chemicals, all of these have now entered your bloodstream.
They are now circulating around and around finding their way to every cell in your body.
Your heart has the job of pumping this contaminated blood, not only through its own valves but to every organ in your body.
Your cells are dying at an accelerated rate.
Your energy is low, your cells are more like little rubbish dumps than engines creating energy.
Your organs of detoxification are struggling.
Their cells are damaged and now the liver and kidneys are struggling to purify your blood, to keep you alive, and in return you light up another cigarette.
Your digestion is producing excess acid about a cup for every packet of cigarettes.
Your brain is flipping around as you experience dopamine highs and lows.
Your pancreas is in a state of confusion as the nicotine keeps your blood sugar high and your bowel doesn't know what day it is because the nicotine receptors are trying to give you diarrhea.
Your cardio vascular system is shutting down and you notice your hands and feet are colder than before.
This is because your peripheral circulation is failing.
Your struggling heart finally pumps the blood back to your troubled lungs and with a hacking cough the toxic residues of smoking finally exit your body.
Unfortunately much of the toxicity remains behind to begin a slow destructive process.
Source...