In this article we are going to tell you what happens in your body that leads to hypertension when you smoke. Let’s begin at year one and then see what happens if you smoke up to 30 years. We will also have a look at the risk of an apopleptic stroke.
We will have a look at what happens during the first five years, between the 6th and the 15th year, between the 16th and the 25th year and up to 40 years of smoking. We will just act on the assumption that the amount of cigarettes smoked each and every day is about 17 which means approximately one pack, or the most common amount of cigarettes that an average smoker smokes every day.
 |
Year 1 – 5 Smoking cigarettes makes your body absorb more than just nicotine out of the cigarette. The body absorbs far more substances that are being transported all through the body. Some of them can cause cancer, others are toxic, most of them are health damaging. Many of those substances start depositing in the blood vessels. As a result of this process the diameter of the blood vessels in the body starts to shring down over the years. Doing sports can slow down this process, but it will not be able to stop it. Blood Pressure Level: Normal Risk of a Stroke: Low |
Year 6 – 15
Smoking cigarettes has made your body absorb and deposit toxic waste for years now, and your cardiovascular system is taking serious damage. It has absorbed much more toxic substances, than it could get rid of, which has caused some of you blood vessels to narrow down to 40% of their normal diameter. Due to this effect blood has to be pumped faster and harder through your blood vessels to ensure, your body is still getting enough oxygen to keep living. This way the heart is forced to work up to 70% faster than it should. For being able to pump such amounts of blood through your body, it is necessary for your body to discharge your heart. The natural reaction of the body is to raise the amount of blood, to raise the pressure, and to ease the heart’s work this way. In combination with the shrinking volume of your cardiovascular system the effect can result in hypertension. In some cases even an early stroke before the age of 30 is not yout of question. Together with the risk of a stroke the risk of a heart attack is also raising, as the narrowing down of the blood vessels diameter does also affect the heart.
Blood Pressure Level: Increased
Risk of a Stroke: Realistic
|
Year 16 – 25 Your cardiovascular system has taken significant damage as it is filled up with fat toxic substances. Some of the blood vessels in the body are narrowed down to only 15% of their normal diameter, the blood supply in many parts of the body is insufficient. A quite possible result of the long pollution process can be a smoker’s toe, or leg. In both cases the affected extrmity has to be amputated and the risk of a heart attack is reaching high levels as some parts of it are also affected by the narrowed down blood vessels. The extreme narrowing down of the blood vessels in your body makes it necessary to incrrease the blood pressure to a dangerous level to keep the heart from collapsing under the exposure of pumping blood through a vascular system that is significantly damaged. |
Though this measure is being taken to keep the heart working, the risk of a heart attack is high at this point. The risk of a stroke is raising at an increasing speed.
Blood Pressure Level: High
Risk of a Stroke: High
Up to Year 40
There’s not much left to say here. The risk of suffering from at least one disease caused by smoking cigarettes is at almost 100% now, considering smoker’s leg, toe, lungs, chronic coughing, heart attacks, strokes and different types of cancer. Wide parts of the cardiovascular system have taken irreparable damage. The blood pressure is at a very high level, due to pounds of toxic substances being stuck in the body’s blood vessels.
Blood Pressure Level: Extreme
Risk of a Stroke: "Matter of Time"
At this point an spoplptic stroke is only a matter of time, as the probability of expeciencing one during the following ten years is at almost 100% if you don’t die from another cigarette-caused disease earlier. The only way to reduce the probability of a stroke is to stop smoking at once, and for good. There’s no way around that.
===========================================================
If you are planning to stop smoking, let us inform you, that we have a lot of helpful tools on SmokefreeACES.com, that will help you to succeed! One of them is the Smoker Smack Report, an E-Book that has been written to ease the start of a smoke free life.
Download the Smoker Smack Report…
===========================================================
