After quitting smoking, your body is always wrong? The good news: these discomforts are normal
Old Wu, who is in his 50s, is an old smoker. Because he smokes all the year round, he will cough when he smokes. To this end, his family repeatedly persuaded him to quit smoking, but in the end it was all over. Once his wife was hospitalized because of illness, Lao Wu realized the importance of his body, so he made up his mind to quit smoking.
In the process of quitting smoking, although many times he became addicted to smoking, but Lao Wu also endured it. But recently he has started to feel that something is wrong with his body:
Insomnia at night is a common occurrence, and then the temper becomes easily irritable, depressed and so on.
Later, Lao Wu consulted the doctor. The doctor said that this is a normal "withdrawal reaction". As long as you get through it, you will be successful in quitting smoking.
Hearing this, many smokers may be curious, isn't quitting smoking good for health? Why is there still discomfort? How to get over these discomforts after quitting smoking? Let me tell you the story below!
There are many harmful components in cigarettes, and nicotine is the main substance that induces smoking addiction. Once the human body inhales nicotine, it will stimulate everyone's nerve cells, causing the nerve cells to secrete more dopamine, so people will feel happy.
Once a smoker quits smoking, the intake of nicotine in the body will be reduced, and the nicotine originally in the blood will also be metabolized by the body, and the dopamine in the body will drop. There is a "withdrawal reaction" like Lao Wu's irritability, depression, and even insomnia.
Above, the "withdrawal reactions" of Lao Wu after quitting smoking include depression, insomnia, etc., but not everyone who quit smoking has the same "withdrawal reactions", because everyone's physique is different, and smoking Age is also different. Common symptoms of "withdrawal" include the following:
- Dizziness
Because smokers smoke for a long time, their brains will be in a state of long-term hypoxia, and after smokers decide to quit smoking, their brains will slowly return to normal. It takes a period of time for the brain to adapt from a long-term hypoxia state to return to normal. Therefore, people who quit smoking will experience dizziness, a kind of "withdrawal response".
- Insomnia
When smoking, the harmful components in cigarettes can inhibit the work of the brain. Once the quitter quits the cigarettes, the harmful components will not inhibit the brain, and the brain will return to a normal state. In this process, the brain will be in an excited state for a short time, which will cause insomnia in people who quit smoking.
- Mood changes
Smokers always have a dependence on smoking. Once they quit smoking, this psychological dependence will make the quitter feel irritable, and even irritable and anxious.
- Increased appetite
Many people will find that they have gained weight after quitting smoking. Some middle-aged people who quit smoking think they are getting fat in middle age. But it may actually be a "withdrawal reaction" after quitting smoking. After quitting smoking, the body's functions are slowly recovering, especially the taste and digestive system will also slowly recover, so the food intake will increase and the weight will increase.
The "withdrawal response" is most obvious when you first quit smoking. As long as you stick to it, the "withdrawal response" will gradually disappear. If you want to survive this period of time better, you must know how to deal with the "withdrawal reaction".
· Change your lifestyle
If you want to survive the most difficult period of "withdrawal reaction", you might as well change your existing habits.
First of all, stay away from people who usually smoke with you, and avoid all behaviors that can generate the desire to smoke. Secondly, it is necessary to change the way of smoking, such as the posture of holding the cigarette, the posture of smoking, and so on. If there is a mood change, you can choose to do housework, find someone to chat, eat snacks, etc. to divert your attention.
·Conducting sport exercises
To get rid of smoking cravings, people who quit smoking can do some physical exercise properly. Physical exercise can not only divert your attention, but also control the weight gain caused by quitting smoking, make your muscles stronger, improve lung function, and improve insomnia symptoms after quitting smoking. .
· Reasonable diet
After quitting smoking, you can try to adjust some of your dietary structure to make your diet scientific and reasonable. People who quit smoking may wish to eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, eat less fatty foods or sweets, and also avoid irritating foods, which can quickly help you quit smoking.
Identify the purpose of quitting smoking. If you suddenly quit smoking on a whim, the failure rate can be said to be 100%, but as long as the purpose of quitting smoking is clear, in the process of quitting smoking, anything that hinders smoking cessation will not be easily affected.
Seek help from others. Many smokers can't quit smoking because they feel that quitting is uncomfortable, and the family members around them cannot understand this pain.
But in fact, quitting smoking is not a matter for one person. You might as well find a trustworthy person around you to help yourself. When you want to smoke, he can stop you in time, and when you feel down, he can relieve you. Let you not be alone on the road to quitting smoking, but also strengthen your willpower.
With aids. Quitting smoking simply by not smoking cigarettes may not have such a high success rate, especially for smokers who have smoked for a long time. In fact, you can also use some auxiliary tools to quit smoking, such as asking the doctor to prescribe some drugs for smoking cessation, or drinking some health tea that nourishes the lungs, etc. If you want to get over your mouth addiction, you can choose to eat some chewing gum.
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