Smoking will not only lead to the risk of lung cancer three times higher than that of ordinary people, but also bring various health problems, which will not only harm themselves, but also bring health hazards to people who smoke passively around.
It is difficult to quit smoking, but you can still quit as long as you persist. Now let's take a look at what will happen in the process of quitting smoking, so as to have a good idea and do a good job in psychological construction, so as to stick to it better.
People who are heavy smokers will have the following discomfort when they suddenly quit smoking. They have been smoking for decades and suddenly want to give up. The process during this period must be very uncomfortable.
1, emotional irritability
Especially a few days before I started to quit smoking, my mood will be very irritable, and it will be easy to get angry and my attention will be distracted. Some people will feel drifting, and my judgment on distance and space will be affected.
This is actually due to the normal reaction of self-repair after quitting smoking, but you must never give up. At this time, you can choose to exercise, chat with friends and do something that interests you to divert your attention. As long as you persist for a period of time, this symptom will disappear.
2. Dry mouth and thirst
After quitting smoking, you will feel thirsty and thirsty, and always feel uncomfortable in your throat. At this time, you can relieve it by drinking more water. Drinking more water is beneficial to accelerate the body's metabolism and help excrete toxins.
There will be a lot of mucus in the lungs because of long-term smoking. At the beginning of quitting smoking, mucus will become slack. At this time, the respiratory tract will discharge tar and harmful substances left by smoking in the body, so the lung cilia will begin to play a role, leading to aggravated cough.
This phenomenon may last for several weeks, so there is no need to panic. Drinking more water can help the body detoxify.
3, insomnia and lethargy
Insomnia will occur in the early stage of quitting smoking, and some people will feel sleepy after quitting smoking. This is mainly because nicotine contained in cigarettes can refresh the mind. Once they lose the help of nicotine to refresh themselves, their nerves will relax, making people always sleepy and sleepy.
If you want to improve your sleep problems after quitting smoking, you can drink a glass of milk before going to bed or take a walk after meals, which will help you relax and fall asleep.
Step 4 get fat
There are also cases where you get fat after quitting smoking, because the so-called slimming when smoking is actually harmful substances in tobacco that damage your gastric mucosa and blood vessels. After quitting smoking, you get fat because your digestion and absorption function have recovered. Moreover, after some people quit smoking, their addiction will be relieved by eating constantly, so if they eat too much, they will get fat.
So to some extent, getting fat is still a reaction to getting better. If you want to gain weight, keep exercising during quitting smoking. Doing more exercise can keep you healthy.
It is normal for you to feel uncomfortable in the process of quitting smoking. Don't worry, if you can get through it, you will succeed in quitting smoking.
If you want to quit smoking, you can take three steps: the first step is to make up your mind.
You can tell your family and friends about quitting smoking, ask them to supervise, reduce your stay in smoking places, avoid letting others smoke in front of you, keep yourself busy, and don't create opportunities for smoking.
The second step is to stick to the reaction of quitting smoking.
If you really can't stick to it, you can take medicine under the guidance of a doctor to help you quit smoking.
The third step is to quit addiction.
After three months of persistence in quitting smoking, you will find that the physical craving for smoking has subsided a lot, indicating that quitting smoking is half done, and the rest is to quit smoking, throw away all smoking-related items, tell others that you have quit smoking, resolutely refuse to smoke again, try to stay away from smokers and smoking environment, cultivate your hobbies and make your life colorful.
No matter how long you smoke, quitting smoking is only good for your health, so the physical reaction after actively quitting smoking, no matter what happens, is a kind of redemption for your body.