At present, one person in the world dies from diseases caused by smoking every 10 seconds. Every year, at least 3.15 million people worldwide die from smoking diseases, and this number is increasing. The number of smokers in China has reached more than 300 million. More than 15 million cigarettes are consumed every year, accounting for more than 30% of the world's total consumption.
From a health perspective, it is imperative to quit smoking. But for those smokers who have difficulty quitting smoking for a while, drinking tea is the best way to reduce the harm of smoking. Because the tea polyphenols, vitamin C and other components in tea have a degrading effect on various harmful substances contained in cigarettes, while drinking tea and smoking, the toxins can be continuously removed with the tea and excreted through feces.
Smokers often drink tea has 4 major benefits
1. Drinking tea often can reduce the possibility of smoking-induced cancer
Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 chemical substances, more than 50 of which are carcinogens, and absorption through the respiratory tract is most conducive to the spread of carcinogens in these cigarettes throughout the body. Long-term smoking may not only cause lung cancer, but also esophageal cancer, and drinking tea has anti-cancer and anti-cancer effects. The tea polyphenols in tea can inhibit the release of free radicals and control the proliferation of cancer cells.
Free radicals are a group of harmful "garbage" produced when the human body consumes oxygen in the process of breathing and metabolism. It exists in almost every cell of the human body and is a major hidden danger and "time bomb" of the human body. Studies have shown that free radicals are also an important cause of gene mutation and carcinogenesis. Under normal circumstances, the human body is in a dynamic balance where free radicals are constantly produced and eliminated.
It is worth pointing out that cigarettes are free radical generators. According to measurements, people can produce 10-17 free radicals every day of smoking, and smoking will destroy the original dynamic balance. Excessive production of free radicals increases the possibility of human body carcinogenesis.
The main catechins of tea polyphenols in tea are an antioxidant and a strong inhibitor of free radicals, which can inhibit the occurrence of tumors caused by smoking. The tea polyphenols in green tea have a strong ability to scavenge free radicals, and they have a strong scavenging effect on superoxide anion free radicals.
2. Drinking tea often can help reduce radiation pollution caused by smoking.
According to estimates by the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, a person who smokes 30 cigarettes a day will receive the same amount of radiation from the cigarettes in his lungs as his skin undergoes fluoroscopy on a chest X-ray machine approximately 300 times in one year.
Drinking tea can effectively prevent radioactive substances from invading the bone marrow and quickly excrete strontium 90 and cobalt 60 from the body. The catechins and lipopolysaccharides in tea can reduce the harm of radiation to the human body and significantly protect the hematopoietic function effect. Clinical trials of using tea tablets to treat mild radiation sickness caused by radiation show that the total effective rate can reach 90%.
3. Drinking tea often can prevent cataracts caused by smoking
Scientific research has found that smoking is becoming the enemy of eye health and can cause cataracts. Researchers at Harvard University Medical School in the United States found that compared with those who never smoked, people who smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day are twice as likely to develop cataracts as non-smokers. The more they smoke, the more likely they are to develop cataracts. The greater the sex.
In my country, 4% of blind people with unknown causes are caused by smoking. Canadian scientists have discovered that drinking more tea can prevent cataracts. They believe that cataracts are caused by free radicals generated by oxidation reactions in the human body acting on the lens of the eye, and the anti-oxidant metabolites produced by the decomposition of tea polyphenols in tea can prevent the oxidation reactions that generate free radicals in the body.
In addition, scientists from the Center for Nutrition and Aging Research of the United States Department of Agriculture have found that the incidence of cataracts is closely related to the level and concentration of carotene in human plasma. In all patients with cataract, the concentration of carotene in their plasma is often very low, and the incidence rate is 3 to 4 times higher than that of normal people. Tea contains much higher carotene than ordinary vegetables and fruits. Carotene not only prevents cataracts, protects the eyes, resists nicotine, and detoxifies smoke. Smokers drink tea to protect their eyesight.
4. Drinking tea often can supplement the vitamin C consumed by smoking
Because smoking can promote the combination of vitamin C in human serum with carbon monoxide, nitrosamines, nicotine, formaldehyde and other oxidative carcinogens in smoke, and then transform into non-toxic compounds or non-mutant substances to be excreted from the body, greatly reducing the content of vitamin C, leading to The large accumulation of trash in the human body-free radicals, has left hidden dangers to the human body and aggravated the damage effect of free radicals on various normal cells.
For example, inhalation of harmful substances such as nicotine increases the concentration of oxygen free radicals in cells. Oxygen free radicals have a harmful effect on human cells and can easily cause cancerous reactions. American researchers have found that regular supplementation of a certain dose of vitamin C can avoid the harm caused by smoking. Because vitamin C has an antioxidant effect, it can inhibit the generation of oxygen free radicals and protect human cells from damage.
The content of vitamin C in tea is rich, especially green tea. Under normal circumstances, the extraction rate of vitamin C in tea can reach about 80%, and the vitamin C in tea soup is rarely destroyed at a temperature of 90 degrees Celsius.
All in all, although drinking tea often has certain benefits for smokers, the purpose of this article is by no means to encourage people to smoke, nor is it that drinking tea can alleviate the harm of smoking and can unscrupulously smoke.
On the contrary, because the harm caused by smoking is huge and painful for both individuals and society, quitting smoking is the general trend and a wise move. Drinking tea can only be used as a remedy in the process of smoking cessation to minimize the harm of smoking. For your health, completely quit smoking is our ultimate goal.