Category: Quitting Tobacco

Best part is recognizing the early signs of harms of tobacco and quitting right away! If these early signs are missed, at least one should not oversee the late signs of tobacco harms and should quit in this stage. They are the warning signals to stop – either refrain from in-taking tobacco or bear the fatal consequences!

But it is really pathetic that patients visit the doctor when complications of tobacco use are very much evident and make the patient sick. In the third stage of tobacco use, it is too late and the diseases have started to occur in the body. There are many fatal problems experienced where seeing a specialist becomes compulsory! Treatment of the complications takes the priority. Quitting at this stage will help and will take longer time but the damage is already done!

In this stage, the patient will have developed serious illness of one or the other forms given below. They will need both a specialist and cessation expert to cure their disease and to help them quit their habit of tobacco respectively. At this stage the patient will lose their finances at a very heavy and rapid rate that could have been saved had they quit in time! These diseases are:

1. Heart attack
2. Cancer of colorectal, liver, lung, bladder, cervix, oesophagus, kidney, larynx, pancreas, stomach, oral, and pharynx; acute myeloid leukaemia
3. Oral Lesions
4. Cardio Vascular Diseases
5. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
6. Eye Diseases
7. Rheumatoid Arthritis
8. Bone Fractures and lower bone density
9. Chronic kidney diseases
10. Peripheral Vascular Diseases – Bergers disease

Most of the people in India repent for not quitting early only when met with life threatening diseases. With this blogs, I intent to spread this word that self-awareness and detection at the right time will help the tobacco user to seek expert’s help immediately so that the losses are not heavy in the future. The finances can be saved, the life expectancy can improve; one can enjoy more with their family and children and of course have a better healthy life!

One should take care of their health and always advice the younger generation “TO BE SMART AND DO NOT START”. Quitting at the nascent stage will not cause devastating and heavy harms as it does in the later stages.

Let us pledge to quit tobacco before any complications arise.

If you are a tobacco user who wants to seek assistance and help to quit, download the app here: Google Play Store

This app will help you explore more on tobacco and yourself by telling you your addiction level, type of addiction, your willpower index, expenditures, finding a doctor for help, self-assessment, and much more!

Whenever you decide to quit, you can visit us at Tobacco Wellness Centre, Sector – 30, Noida Medical Centre, Noida and seek counselling from our cessation expert to win over tobacco.

The best way to stay healthy is adopting MED and aborting use of MEDICINES.

How and when should you recognize that you must quit your habit of tobacco?

If anyone finds you smoking or chewing, their immediate advice is “Please quit your habit. It will harm your health.” And your reaction to them verbally or non-verbally is very obvious – “Oh common! You don’t have to tell me all that. I don’t need to quit now. I know when and how should I quit. Let me enjoy my moment now! Don’t spoil it!”

The kick that tobacco gives, refrains you from quitting tobacco. Tobacco will definitely harm your body. People keep differing in their need to quit tobacco. Recognising early signs tobacco has started on your body would save you from the later complications.

Let me quickly tell you these early of signs and symptoms of tobacco use that will help you understand the changes occurring in your body and also encourage you to make up your mind to quit as soon as possible!

When you begin to smoke or chew, there is a great sense of relaxation experienced. You are jollier, happier and energetic than before. You are absolutely convinced that tobacco is doing you good and that you must sustain this habit. But then the damage starts to reap in. Let’s see the first signs of deterioration smoking or chewing causes:

• Wrinkles on Skin
• Stained teeth
• High BP (Blood Pressure)
• Throat irritation
• Change in voice
• Loss of appetite
• Nausea
• Poor sense of smell and taste
• Dizziness
• Increased Heart Beats

• High cholesterol
• Yellow fingers
• Slower healing of wounds
• Bad breath and smell in clothes
• Constant Irritation increasing on a daily basis
• Shortness of breath and increased difficulty in breathing over time
• Increased stress and tension
• Nutrition deficiency
• Fall of immune system leading to more diseases very often
• Respiratory symptoms like coughing, phlegm, wheezing, dyspnoea
• Loss of confidence, energy and enthusiasm
• Altered Lipid metabolism
• Increased inflammation
• Depletion of Antioxidant micronutrients
• Oxidative Stress
• Start of cravings
• Giving away social activities for tobacco

If you are smart enough to realize these symptoms, you will forge ahead to quit right away. In this stage your consumption is minimum thus reducing your need of medication. Only counselling will be sufficient to win over smoking, chewing or any form of tobacco.

Adopt the new mantra to be healthy – MED! Free yourself from all medicines!

In the next blog we would talk about the late signs of harms due to tobacco consumption.

In case you would like to know further about the signs and damages caused due to tobacco use, download our app on Google Play Store

It has lot many details that can help you understand the impact of tobacco, understanding your addiction level, type of addiction, your willpower index to quit, your expenditures, etc. You can explore more details and use it to also seek assistance for quitting. Download the app, register, take pledge to stay away from tobacco and refer to all your friends to create awareness and help them.

Whenever you decide to quit, you can visit us at Tobacco Wellness Centre, Sector – 30, Noida Medical Centre, Noida and seek counselling from our cessation expert to win over tobacco.