Can smoking relieve stress?

To a certain extent, smoking can relieve certain psychological pressure, but compared with the harm of smoking, this is not worth mentioning, because there are many ways to relieve stress. Using smoking to relieve stress is a vicious cycle of relief. After all, smoking can be said to have no benefits but only harms. Smoking is an important cause of tumors. It will lead to a significant decline in physical fitness and induce the possibility of various diseases. Therefore, for old smokers, it is best to quit smoking in time, which is also responsible for your health. Let’s take a look at what are the misunderstandings about smoking?

Myth 1.

Smoking is not that harmful and will not kill you. Some people smoke all their lives and nothing happens to them. Non-smokers still get lung cancer.

Analysis: Ordinary people often only know about the health conditions of smokers around them, and do not know the global and national data on smoking-related diseases. According to surveys, there are about 1 billion smokers in the world, and 5.4 million people die from tobacco-related diseases every year. There are more than 300 million smokers in my country, and 540 million of them are harmed by secondhand smoke. Every year, the number of deaths from smoking-related diseases is as high as 1 million, which exceeds the total number of deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis, traffic accidents and suicide. According to estimates by relevant experts, if the smoking situation in China is not effectively controlled, the number of deaths from smoking-related diseases will reach 2 million each year by 2025. At the same time, most smokers' life expectancy will be shortened by more than 10 years.

Myth 2.

Smoking a small amount will not cause any harm.

Analysis: First, there are individual differences in the degree of addiction among smokers. Smoking less does not necessarily mean less addiction. Many people do not smoke much every day but are very addicted. Since nicotine is a highly addictive substance, more than 95% of smokers will become addicted.

Myth 3.

Just inhale, don't swallow. As long as the smoke is not inhaled into the lungs, it will not harm the body.

Analysis: Human respiration is the process of gas exchange between the body and the external environment. The human breathing process includes three interrelated links: external respiration, including pulmonary ventilation and pulmonary gas exchange; gas transport in the blood; and internal respiration, which refers to the gas exchange between tissue cells and blood. The whole process of smoking includes the above three interrelated links and cannot be controlled artificially. When smoking, the mouth, trachea, and lungs must maintain a negative pressure inhalation state. It is impossible to keep the smoke completely in the mouth without entering the lungs.

Myth 4.

Smoking can enhance physical fitness and prolong life. No smoking and no drinking 63, No smoking but only drinking 73, Only smoking but not drinking 83, Both smoking and drinking 93

Analysis: This statement is a biased defense of smoking by smokers. It only lists special cases, not the results of a population survey or a universal rule.