There are no clinical studies on how many minutes less you will live if you smoke a cigarette. However, smoking is harmful to health and may affect life expectancy. Smoking in general may lead to respiratory diseases, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
1. Respiratory diseases: Smoking is an important influence on COPD, especially with age, diagnosed with COPD, each infection will also increase the progression of the disease, cough, phlegm, wheezing symptoms worsening, frequent episodes of respiratory failure in severe cases, but also may induce the risk of lung cancer, affecting life expectancy.
2. cardiovascular disease: common disease for myocardial infarction, smoking will destroy the vascular endothelium, affecting lipid metabolism, the formation of plaque, plaque rupture leads to myocardial infarction, if the treatment is not timely will quickly deprive of life. After repeated myocardial infarction, myocardial function decreases, reducing the length of life.
3. Cerebrovascular disease: the impact of smoking on blood vessels, not only on the cardiovascular impact, on the whole body of the blood vessels will have an impact, so that vascular spasm, stenosis, occlusion, leading to insufficient blood supply to the brain, cerebral infarction and other diseases, so that the patient’s quality of life declined, once paralyzed in bed, decubitus ulcers, pneumonia in the fall, the prognosis is worse, shorten life expectancy.
Smoking is harmful to health, patients are advised to quit smoking to avoid life-threatening diseases. If there is any discomfort, they should seek medical attention promptly.