How Does Cigarette Smoking Affect The Respiratory System

Cigarette smoke when inhaled and exhaled release toxic particles and vapors. When the cigarette smoke enters the nose, to the nasal cavity, paranasal sinus, into the larnyx, esophagus and onward through the body. I want to stop and go back to the beginning of smoke entry. The nose contains external nears or cilia. These cilia try to capture as much of these toxic particles and push them back towards the outside of the nose. Then these toxic particles move through the nasal cavity, up and around the paranasal sinuses, which contains the frontal, esthmoid, maxillary and sphenoid sinus. Let me explain a few fundamentals. The cilia, nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses help filter, warm and moisten the air you breath,

He is a primarily at risk from build-up of secretions on his lungs and potential COPD. His notes say he smoked 20 cigarettes a day up until recently but it does not specify how long he has stopped smoking for. Cigarette smoke can cause hypertrophy and hyperplasia of the goblet cells which leads to the mass production of mucus. Cigarette smoke also has an impact the cilia movement which are used to clear secretions, the smoke in cigarettes makes these cilia smaller and move in different ways which makes them unable to remove the build-up of secretions (Lui, 2012). Damage to the cilia is caused by elements in the cigarette smoke for instance carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide and nitric oxide. Several studies have shown smoking is linked to respiratory tract infections and build-up of secretions in a smokers lungs (Lui, 2012). Mucociliary is a self-clearing mechanism which allows the body to remove inhaled pathogens and other particles. Pulmonary infections and injury to the lungs in patients with COPD and other lung disorders often occurs when mucociliary function is compromised (Lui,

Imagine, coughing for your whole life, over and over again. This will occur when a person smokes and is called “Smoker's Cough.” This happens due to tar sticking to the Cilia. One respiratory disease that stick out to me and that I will talk to you about is Chronic Bronchitis. People with chronic bronchitis have constantly inflamed airways.

Asthma is a long-term lung disease. Those with asthma have sensitive airways in their lungs which triggers a flare up. When this flare up happens the muscle around the airways squeeze tight and the airways swell, become narrows and produce more mucus. (Anon., 2016) All these things make it harder for a person to breathe. Asthma effects the human body’s respiratory system. Asthma causes a spasm and constriction of the bronchial passages and the swelling and the inflammation of the mucous lining. The body responds by defence cells from the immune system, which causes the airways to swell and the muscles surrounding the airways to contract. Which is what cuts off the airflow. While a person is in asthma attack, the asthmatic cannot breathe which

Smoking can bring about lung infection by harming your airways routes and the little air sacs (alveoli) found in your lungs. Smoking can bring about lethal infections, for example, pneumonia, lung growth and emphysema. Additionally smoking causes 83% of deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and smoking causes 84% of deaths from lung cancer (NHS , 2017) . However, there is a considerable measure of terrible illnesses connected to smoking cigarettes. Illnesses like throat malignancy, mouth tumour, bladder growth, lung growth, constant bronchitis, emphysema, and coronary illness are altogether brought about by smoking. Also smoking is addictive. Nicotine is the addictive substance

Exercising helps eliminate all the extra fat and waste that surrounds the heart. Also quitting smoking avails the whole body, especially the heart. Smoking cigarettes causes about 1 in every 5 deaths in the United States each year. (National Institutes of Health). Tobacco has many chemicals that harm the organs in the body. It also damages the blood vessels, which increases the risk of atherosclerosis (Smoking & Cardiovascular Disease (Heart Disease)). The carbon dioxide that is coming from the cigarette binds to the hemoglobin, a substance that is found in red blood cells, preventing the blood from carrying a full load of oxygen that is needed to sustain the body. Making it harder to breath and stressing the heart. Smoking also damages the heart vessels, which affects how well the blood flows around the body making the heart work more. For some people, such as women who use birth control pills and people who have diabetes, smoking poses an even greater risk to the heart and blood vessels. Cigarettes have nicotine in them which produce adrenaline, therefore causing the heart to work harder and gaining a high blood pressure and rate

Growing up, everyone is informed that smoking cigarettes are terrible for you, consistently. As a child, you don’t generally comprehend the thinking behind it. In the world of pathology, Chronic Bronchitis is one of the many effect of smoking cigarettes. Consequently, cigarette smokers are 50 times more likely to get chronic bronchitis than nonsmokers. Which I jokingly refer to the “The Mucus Monster” because of the mucus it produces. Bronchitis is “The inflammation of the lining of the airways, or bronchial tubes.” When your airways are inflamed and/or infected, less air is able to flow to and from the lung and you cough up heavy mucus. There are two types of bronchitis: acute and chronic. Acute bronchitis

The effects of cigarette smoking in Pulmonary Edema. First, this discussion will inform readers of cigarette smoking on normal lungs, then how cigarette smoking affects lungs impaired with pulmonary edema. Initially, the smoke inhaled from a cigarette will enter the lungs and travel deep to the alveoli as a person inhales. Alveoli is where gas exchange takes place to oxygenate the blood that is carried throughout the body. Gasses from the inhaled smoke are absorbed into the respiratory tract and toxins and carcinogens are deposited into the alveoli (NCBI, 2010). Since public health officials have informed the public of the negative health effects of prolonged smoking, it is common knowledge that smoking causes cancer, heart disease, and

The lungs need to stay versatile so they can successfully move oxygen into the body and carbon dioxide out of the body. By smoking, you are really bringing carbon monoxide into the body, which is harmful. Tars and different chemicals will settle on the cilia of the lungs and can't be expelled; which additionally corrupts the usefulness of the respiratory framework. Two conditions that create when a man smokes are emphysema and bronchitis.

The damaged tissues- cilia, mucous membranes, alveoli, and capillaries-are all affected by smoking, but in different ways. The cilia’s purpose is to filter out dust and other particles that flow through the nose. However, the Cilia gets clogged with cigarette toxins -methane, carbon dioxide, and arsenic- and this causes their functions to slow down for hours at a time, making their system much less efficient, as well as the mucous membranes to secrete excessive amounts of mucous, causing symptoms of a cold. The toxins build up a layer of mucus and tar which the cilia are unable to breakdown. Tissues within the mucous membranes increase, so more clogging occurs from smoking. This excess mucous can fester an infection and this overwhelms the

Cigarette smoking leads to changes in the lung cells, which in turn, causes swelling and

To begin, exposure to passive smoke as a child harms the function of the respiratory system by causing illnesses to develop in the lungs during childhood. Children who were exposed to passive smoke are highly prone to develop respiratory illnesses. For instance, asthma is one of the most common illness caused by exposure to passive smoke. Studies show that there is an increased risk of asthma in children associated with maternal passive smoke exposure by 20% to 85% (Burke et al, 2012). Through these statistics, we can quantitatively show how harmful exposure of particles from tobacco smoke is to the lungs of children and the possibility of developing asthma at childhood from passive exposure through the mother. Asthma is a respiratory condition resulting from particles in the bronchi of the lungs leading to breathing difficulty, whereby causing an inflammation of the air passages in the lungs due to particles affecting sensitivity of nerve endings (Asthma Society of Canada, 2015.) Particles such as nicotine from tobacco affect the sensitivity of the nerve ending in the airway leading to irritability resulting in buildup of mucus in airway. These particles easily pass through our passage way ,because they damage the mucus lining, so they are not easily blocked, which is why they enter into the lungs causing irritation triggering an asthma attack. While examining 133,800 to 161,600 asthma related cases, it was found that children during early childhood from two months to five

To begin let’s talk about the many, many health risks that are caused from smoking. I’ll start off with the biggest consequence smoking causes. Cancer. According to the CDC.gov website, nine out of ten lung cancers are caused from smoking cigarettes. And although lung cancer is the most common cancer associated with smoking, it is definitely not the only one. Smoking can cause cancer anywhere in the body. From the mouth to the colon, nothing is safe from cancer when you smoke. According to betobaccofree.gov, the chemicals in cigarettes harm your blood cells and damage your heart, increasing your likelihood of developing aneurysms, cardiovascular disease, Coronary heart disease, and strokes. Smokers also develop mouth sores and ulcers and as stated on deltadentalins.com, smokers are about 4 times more likely than non-smokers to develop gum disease. Smokers experience muscle deterioration because blood and oxygen are restricted and can’t reach the muscles.

Smoking increases the risk of suffering from heart diseases, stroke, other lung diseases and other respiratory illnesses. The body develops horrific reactions to the daily onslaught of smoking. It damages the blood vessels in the legs and arms for example, which lead to restricted circulation and even amputation of the limbs. Also, a smoker addict will eventually start getting eye irritations (which leads to blindness), foul smelling hair, hair loss and even start developing a loss of smell. All of these reactions are due to the dangerous chemicals cigarettes contain.

     The large particles in cigarette smoke, commonly known as “tar”, collect in the branching points of the lungs. The tar contains carcinogenic compounds that increase the risk of lung cancer. The small particles in cigarette smoke, including carcinogens, irritants, and corrosive chemicals, collect in the small air sacs in the lungs and damage them. These air sacs are where the blood absorbs oxygen from the air. When the small particles from the cigarette smoke are absorbed into the blood