Contents:
- Medical Video: What Happens When You Stop Smoking?
- Some effects of smoking on muscle work
- 1. Increase the risk of muscle injury during exercise
- 2. Reducing the ability to move
- 3. Inhibiting the growth of muscle cells
Medical Video: What Happens When You Stop Smoking?
As one of the risk behaviors, smoking is the number one cause of various chronic diseases. Decreasing the quality of health due to smoking is due to exposure to poisons that enter the respiratory system and blood flow which generally disrupts the work of the heart and blood vessels. Not only that, the effects of smoking are also experienced by most body cells, including muscle cells. Muscle damage from smoking may not cause serious health problems, but it can reduce the quality of a person's overall physical activity.
Some effects of smoking on muscle work
1. Increase the risk of muscle injury during exercise
Smokers are more likely to experience sprains or muscle injuries. Muscles in a smoker are also more easily fatigued which increases the chance of injury by repetitive movementsoveruse injury), falls, or loses strength due to not strong tissue or tendon support, back pain and pain, shoulder injury (bursitis) and accidental injuries while exercising such as dislocations.
2. Reducing the ability to move
The health of blood vessels is a vital thing for individuals to be able to move optimally. However, blood vessels tend to experience damage to smokers as a result of a decrease in the ability to exercise physically.
Basically, muscles need adequate oxygen intake to work optimally during exercise or physical activity. By smoking, the muscles will experience a lack of oxygen intake needed in several ways, including:
- Smokers have decreased lung capacity by at least 10% compared to normal conditions. As a result oxygen is sucked and distributed into the bloodstream and muscles to be less.
- Exposure to carbon monoxide transportation oxygen to fewer muscle cells.
- Toxins from cigarettes also damage the oxygen carrier, namely red blood cells, so that the muscle regeneration process that is damaged during physical activity is hampered.
- The decrease in oxygen levels also has an impact on the process of providing energy so that in smokers, the capacity for endurance in physical activity also tends to decrease.
3. Inhibiting the growth of muscle cells
Smoking also has the opportunity to inhibit the growth of muscles formed from physical exercise, because basically an increase in muscle mass requires optimal regeneration of new muscle cells.Many studies show that muscle damage from smoking is caused by disruption of muscle metabolism, increased inflammation and oxidative stress that occurs, and over-activation of genes that trigger muscle atrophy.
