Bodybuilding Without Smoking Cessation Is Not Enough

If you need more reasons to stop smoking this post that I decided to bring from here can give you ones, it was originally posted by heather121212 on the link.

Effects of smoking and drinking are dangerous to everyone. Not just bodybuilders, but smoking and drinking does not help a bodybuilder improve their inside or out. The habits both have severe and very dangerous consequences. Bodybuilding is about improving your body, improving how you want to look, and feeling confident and great about yourself. Smoking and drinking will just take you longer to reach your goals or worse, you may not even be able to reach your goals. Harmful Effects Of Smoking Tobacco contains more than 4,000 different chemicals that react with your body in several ways. The most harmful of the chemicals are nicotine, carbon monoxide, and tar. Effects Of Nicotine Nicotine is a drug. People don’t realize that it is that harmful but it is. It is addictive like many drugs and gets absorbed into the bloodstream. Seven to eight seconds later the brain can feel the reaction. It has been noticed that nicotine may sometimes alter a person’s personality depending on how long they have been smoking , the amount of puffs inhaled, and how deeply they were inhaled. Dangerous Side affects: Increase in heart rate Increase in hormone production Increase in blood pressure Constriction of small blood vessels on skin Changes in blood composition Changes in metabolism Effects Of Carbon Monoxide Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas. Up to 15% of a smoker’s blood is carbon monoxide being carried to different parts on the body instead of oxygen. Oxygen is needed especially for body tissues and cells to work properly. When the supply of oxygen is reduced for a very long period of time it causes problems in growth , repair, and absorption of important nutrients such as protein. We all know that growth , repair, and absorption is something every bodybuilder needs. Carbon monoxide is dangerous because it affects the “electrical” activity in the heart. Carbon monoxide also combines with other changes in the blood associated with smoking and diet ( may encourage fatty deposits to form on the walls of the arteries in the heart. This drug leads to heart problems and disease, arteries being blocked, and dangerous circulation problems. Female’s who smoke have the risks of effects I have listed above but also the risk of putting the fetus in danger . It can cause the reduction of oxygen being carried to the fetus. Effects of tar When inhaled 70% of the tar in every cigarette smoked is deposited in the lungs. Tar damages the lungs causing the biocides to narrow, coughing, and increase in bronchiole mucus, and damage to small hairs which protect lungs from diet and infection. Risks Of Smoking: Premature aging 83% of lung patients were smoker related 90% of bronchitis and emphysema patience were smoker related 17% of coronary heart disease (CHD) were smoker related Smokers have a greater risk of illness and premature death compared to nonsmokers Smoking doubles the risk of CHD Smoking Related Diseases: Coronary heart disease Effects on fertility Tobacco amblyopic (defected vision) Atherosclerosis (build up of fatty deposits and loss of elasticity in artery walls Gangrene Cancer (lung, mouth, throat, nose, larynx, esophagus, pancreas, bladder, stomach, leukemia, lymphoid, kidney) Recurrent infections in airway Damage and loss of efficiency in lungs Chronic bronchitis and emphysema Peptic ulcers Female Bodybuilders and Smoking Lung cancer has been expected to overtake breast cancer as the leading cancer in women. Men and women bodybuilders have the same risks of developing CHD, lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and other smoking related diseases. Female bodybuilders have a higher risk of: Abortion and other serious problems during pregnancy Low birth weight babies Menopause developing two to four years early heart attacks and strokes Increase risk of osteoporosis (which is horrible for a bodybuilder) Passive Smoking If you don’t smoke you are not out of harms way yet. Passive smoking is breathing in another persons cigarette smoke off the end of the cigarette. It is just as dangerous as inhaling from the cigarette. It can cause bodybuilders to have irritation to the eyes, nose, throat, increase acute respiratory illness, headaches, dizziness, sickness, coughing, wheezing, asthma, allergies, increased risk of CHD, and reduced levels of capacity of lung functions. Benefits For Quitting: Breathing improves Improved ability to cope with sudden exertion Loss of smokers cough and reduction of phlegm Sense of taste and smell improves Natural decline in lung efficiency slows down to a rate similar to nonsmokers Reduced risk of smoke related diseases