This World Lung Cancer Day, Take the Pledge to be Smoke-Free

Majority of people believe that smoking is cool. They inhale a cigarette and suddenly their mind and body reach to another level, their whole body running with a strange kind of energy that satiates the motive of living. That’s why most people inhale this poison several times a day, sometimes even sacrificing their appetite to buy one.

Around 6.5 trillion cigarettes are sold every year, proportioning to 18 billion cigarettes per day. And it’s funny nearly an irony, all smokers know what lethal harm can cigarette do to their body. But still, the numbers of smokers are rising day-by-day, juggling with their lives, like it’s a game.

Today on World Lung Cancer Day, we will explicate all the knowledge you want to absorb and why keeping them safe could add other long enchanting years with your loving family.

Why are these airbags necessary to take care of?

You always thank the environment for your every breath and why not? It gives us oxygen. But you ignored the one big player you should owe to which are your lungs and respiratory system. Lungs play a very crucial part in our living and every breath you take, inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide, therefore, your lungs are the one who needs huge respect.

Breathing starts from nose and mouth, followed by the food pipe. When you inhale oxygen it travels through the pipe and it got divided into passages called bronchial tubes. The passage then ensues to bronchioles passing through the lungs. This then gets transferred to the heart following the path of balloon-like air-sacs called Alveoli.

What is Lung Cancer?

It can be called as a mutation of lung cells that act abnormally and inflicts the lungs with a very high rate of expansion. These cells form tumors in the lungs, blocking the path to breathing making a person choking to death.

Sometimes, other cancer cells also spread in lungs( metastatic cancer) but it should not be confused with lung cancer. Lung cancer is the highest death earner has accounted for first in killing people alone, combining all the cancers.

The tumor can be divided into two parts

• Non-small cell lung cancer
• Small cell lung cancer

While non-small lung cancer finds its origin on the outline of lungs, small lung cancer starts initially from the cells.

How cigarette can turn your life into a nightmare

Cigarettes are made up of 69 constituents and transform into 4000 volatile and non-volatile chemicals when burned. A single cigarette is instilled with Ammonia, Benzene, Arsene, Lead, Toxamine and many other harmful chemicals your ears will not get delighted to hear. The smoke of a cigarette when inhaled sticks on the walls of lungs containing small hairs specially gifted by God to clean the pollutants from our lungs. Excessive smoke creates huge amounts of tar which can block your way to life.

Do you know if all the constituents by which cigarette is made, if got directly injected through a syringe or injection, the person will die immediately?

Apart from that, it doesn’t only affect your solitary life, the ripple of the drop goes far and the consequences can be born by your family also.

This World Cancer Day give a surprise to your family by taking the quit smoking initiative and revert back to live. We know it can be hard, but your hard work and determination can melt even the highest mountains.

Take a pledge to quit smoking and join others in your group and see the spirit of life that is waiting to be lived.

Refer a Case Study – From Flabby to Fit