Contents:
- Medical Video: What Happens When You Stop Smoking?
- What are the dangers of smoking when breaking fast?
- Carbon monoxide
- Nicotine
- Fasting can be your training time to stop smoking
Medical Video: What Happens When You Stop Smoking?
Fasting, it's your time to do a lot of worship and abandon your bad habits. This is the right time to change your life for the better. Bad habits, like smoking, when you fast the month you can reduce it a little. You need to know that smoking when breaking fast can be more dangerous to your health than smoking when you are not fasting. Why so?
What are the dangers of smoking when breaking fast?
Cigarettes contain many chemicals that are harmful to your health. The main chemicals contained in cigarettes are carbon monoxide, nicotine and tar. This chemical will be more dangerous if it enters your body when your stomach is empty after hours of fasting.
Carbon monoxide
When breaking the fast, your body needs nutrients and fluids to replace the energy lost during fasting. If you smoke immediately when breaking your fast on an empty stomach, your risk of experiencing nausea, vomiting, fatigue, and dizziness will increase.
The content of carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke can enter the bloodstream and reduce oxygen levels in the blood. This results in cells in your body lacking oxygen, so you feel tired and dizzy. This gas can also reduce muscle and heart function.
Carbon monoxide in the blood can also increase bad cholesterol levels in the blood. Over time, this can cause plaque buildup in your arteries and make the arteries harden, stiff, and less elastic. This then causes blood vessels to narrow and eventually leads to heart disease and stroke.
Nicotine
Smoking on an empty stomach can also increase your risk of lung cancer. Nicotine absorbed by the body on an empty stomach can be greater than in a state where the stomach has been filled. So, the greater the risk of lung cancer.
Nicotine in cigarettes can also cause many adverse effects on health, such as increased blood pressure, heart rate, and blood flow to the heart, and causes narrowing and hardening of the arteries. All of these things can then increase the risk of a heart attack. Nicotine is also an addictive substance that makes you dependent on cigarettes. This substance can stay in your body for 6-8 hours depending on how often you smoke.
Fasting can be your training time to stop smoking
Fasting is a time where you have to hold back all your passions, such as appetite and drinking, including the appetite for smoking. So, fasting can be the right time for you to train yourself to reduce the number of cigarettes you consume per day. Not smoking during fasting approximately 13 hours per day is probably an improvement for you smokers.
When you smoke when fasting is sure to decrease. What you were able to smoke at any time you want, but during the fasting month you can only smoke when breaking fast until before the dawn. At this narrow time, reduce the number of cigarettes you "burn" little by little, so you will get used to smoking with fewer stems. Narrower smoking time during the fasting month may help you reduce smoking.
Start by reducing one cigarette per day, do this until you get used to it and then try to reduce one more cigarette from the previous amount. Do this continuously until you may not smoke again. Even though the fasting month is over, you can continue your efforts to stop smoking. The key is consistent.
