I have seen a lot of people are interested in lung disease symptoms. I decided to write therefore an article on lung disease symptoms, but in a less medical way. This is why I decided to write about smoking and the effects of smoking on the body. Smoking will not only damage your lungs, but also other parts of your body.

Smoking causes serious damage to the body. The only "comforting" thing that we can draw on the smoking cessation: who will stop constantly decreases the risks associated with these diseases, so that after 10 years is comparable to that of those who have never smoked.

Substances generated by burning cigarettes (you can check the composition of a cigarette), can cause serious damage to the respiratory and cardiovascular systems (heart with repercussions, cerebral, and peripheral arterial circulation), hemoglobin, oral cavity and larynx, the first section of the upper digestive tract, placenta and fetus, urogenital system, pancreas.

Here are some of the effects of smoking on the respiratory system:

-Deterioration in the functioning of the mucus-cycle, with the possibility of infection and inflammation).

-Reduction due to reduced immune cell activity of lymphocytes and macrophages, with a worsening of control of infection.

-Accentuated release of harmful enzymes that cause the destruction of lung parenchyma that it can be concluded in emphysema.

-Increase in bronchial asthma and manifestations.

-Premature aging of the pulmonary system.

-Processing of cellular DNA, cellular transformations, transformation and tumor tissue dysplasia tissue.

We will continue with the damage smoking can cause on your circulatory system:

-Increased heart rate and blood pressure in the placing of circulating catecholamines caused by nicotine.

-Inadequate oxygenation of the myocardium because of concentrations of corbossiemoglobina; polycythemia due to carbon monoxide.

- Increased platelet and blood coagulation as a direct action of nicotine.

-Placing increased noradrenaline with adrenergic discharges, if these stimuli coincide with a period of ventricular vulnerability, can lead to sudden death.

Here are the damaging effects of smoking on the oral cavity and upper digestive tract:

- The stimuli responsible for irritating disorders described above also act on the upper airways, the mouth and the esophagus. Therefore, the smoker is subject to pharyngitis and laryngitis, acute and chronic, dysplasia of the lip and oral cavity, larynx and esophagus and, last but not least, malignant tumors.

-Smoking facilitates the occurrence of gastric and duodenal ulcer.

Moreover, a pregnant woman can cause damage not only to her, but to her fetus as well by smoking. The baby will not develop properly if the mother smokes during pregnancy and the baby can actually die in severe cases. Another great risk is that the baby can be born with serious diseases and infections of the respiratory system.

Endocrine effects and metabolism

-Increased blood levels of catecholamines growth hormone, ACTH, cortisol, prolactin and beta-endorphins.

-Early menopause in women with higher frequency of osteoporosis.

-Smokers tend to have 3-5 kg less than non smokers.

-The carbon monoxide content in the smoke, by binding with hemoglobin forms the carboxyhemoglobin, so in the presence of even low levels of carbon monoxide in the air, determine measurable values of carboxyhemoglobin in the body (no need for transport of ' oxygen).

-The bone marrow may be over stimulated leading to polycythemia.

-The skin takes on a gray color, loses its elasticity and is withered and aged.