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Nicotine On A Smoker's Body

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1. Smoking decreases the chance for a person to regenerate faster. The research’s states that the specific chemical Nicotine found in cigarettes stimulates the release of catecholamine’s which acts on the central nervous system causing vasoconstriction on blood vessels around the body (Sorensen,2012) which results in reduced red blood cell flow around the body which carries oxygen molecules that are in charge f metabolic rates of cells during the healing process of the body. Smoking also increases the chances of reduced stem cell proliferation, increase chances of infections (Giannoudis et al.,2007) and also an increased influence on intracranial atherosclerosis in patients with acute ischemic stroke (Ambrose and Barua, 2004). (108 words) …show more content…

Nicotine is one of the main chemicals that acts on a smokers body because acts as adrenergic agonist which has similar functions to the other neurotransmitters such as adrenaline in the body where it stimulates the central nervous system when absorbed in the body, smoking causes an acute increase in blood pressure and heart rate, Nicotine also stimulates the release of catecholamine release which is responsible for vasoconstriction of blood vessels in the body on which slows down the oxygen redistribution by hindering blood flow and increase systolic pressure (Green et al.,1986). Smoking also causes the degeneration of the alveoli in the lungs which results in hypoxia where reduced oxygen gas exchange occurs in the red blood cells because of the reduced amount of alveoli available to do the gas exchange one of the physiological effects of this is that smokers have a larger time to heal there bodies because oxygen is one of the vital molecules needed to stimulate metabolic activity in the mitochondria of the cells that keeps it from functioning and with decrease oxygen exchange from lungs to blood the body is unable to heal itself faster (El-Zawawy et al., 2006). (194 …show more content…

Research from the articles states that with smoking cessation life expectancy of smokers who quit at a younger age at an age range of 25-34 may increase their life expectancy longer with an estimated gain of 10 years of life in comparison to smokers who quit at a later age smoke at a more advance age may only gain with an estimation of 6-4 years of there lives unless acted upon by other factors that contributes to there deaths other than smoking. One of the benefits of smoking cessation is that your body will be able to regenerate at a faster rate because the degeneration of alveoli has been ceased due to quitting smoking and with other major physiological changes increase chances of stroke, lung disease has been delayed and metabolic abnormalities that causes bodily harm at a cellular level is reduced. Smoking cessation at the youngest age possible will make all possibilities of developing of some kind of long term disease will benefit the person’s life physically and psychologically.

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