Almost all of us are aware of the fact that smoking is extremely dangerous to our health, even the packet of the product has it written upon it that smoking kills. But, instead of all this warning, nothing can be done for people who are addicted to it. Multiple people every day start the habit of smoking and fall ill. The most common result of smoking is heart disease.
Smoking can cause issues in almost all parts of your body, incorporating your heart and your cardiovascular system. When you inhale, the toxic amalgamation of more than eight thousand chemicals in cigarette’s smoke can play with the essential procedures in your body that assist you in functioning normally. One of these procedures is the delivery of oxygen-affluent blood to your heart and to the rest portion of your body. When a person inhales, the lungs intake the oxygen and take it to their heart, which pumps the oxygen-rich blood to all the parts of the body with the assistance of blood vessels. But when cigarette smoke is inhaled, the blood which is provided to all parts of the body gets contaminated because of the chemical of smoke. These chemicals can cause problems to your heart and the blood vessels which will eventually lead to cardiovascular disease which is one of the leading causes of all deaths in the US.
Smoking can cause multiple problems like mitral stenosis and various other cardiovascular diseases. In this disease, the mitral valve which is responsible for controlling the flow of the blood from the left atrium of the heart to the left ventricle narrows down. It causes multiple other issues like:
- Hypertension
- Heart attack
- Stroke
- Coronary Heart diseases
It is completely in your hand to keep yourself safe from various types of diseases like mitral stenosis, the above-mentioned diseases are not just it, there are so many more that can cause problems in your entire health.
According to the American Heart Association, there are around 81,00,000 deaths in the U.S. because of cardiovascular diseases, which makes it one of the leading causes of death. And among these, around 22 percent of deaths are because of smoking.
Tiredness, fatigue, ageing, high blood pressure and there are so many more things that are caused by smoking. The most shocking thing is that people who do not smoke are also in danger because of smokers as passive smoking is also very risky for your health. According to research, around 20,000 deaths are caused by coronary heart diseases in the U.S. which is because of the second-hand smoke that has affected the lungs.
Quitting smoking will be very advantageous for your heart and your overall health. It is said that after twenty-five minutes of quitting smoking, your heart rate will drop and in just twelve hours, the level of carbon monoxide in your blood will reduce to normal which will let more oxygen reach the important organs like your heart. It is very important to take care of your heart if you do not want to experience life-threatening cardiac issues.
