Table of contents:
- What are the dangers of smoking when breaking the fast?
- Carbon monoxide
- Nicotine
- Fasting can be your practice time to quit smoking
Fasting, your time to do a lot of worship and leave your bad habits. This is the perfect time to change your life for the better. Bad habits, such as smoking, during the fasting month, maybe you can cut back a little. You need to know that smoking when you break your fast can be more dangerous to your health than smoking when you are not fasting. Why so?
What are the dangers of smoking when breaking the fast?
Cigarettes contain many chemicals which are harmful to your health. The main chemicals in cigarettes are carbon monoxide, nicotine and tar. These chemicals are more dangerous if they enter your body on an empty stomach after hours of fasting.
Carbon monoxide
When breaking your fast, your body needs nutrients and fluids to replace the energy lost during fasting. If you smoke immediately when breaking the fast on an empty stomach, your risk of experiencing nausea, vomiting, fatigue, and dizziness will increase.
The carbon monoxide content in cigarette smoke can enter the bloodstream and reduce oxygen levels in the blood. This results in the cells in your body being deprived of oxygen, leaving you feeling tired and dizzy. This gas can also decrease muscle and heart function.
Carbon monoxide in the blood can also increase the level of bad cholesterol in the blood. Over time, this can cause plaque buildup in your arteries and make the arteries hardened, stiff, and less elastic. This in turn causes the blood vessels to narrow and ultimately leads to heart disease and stroke.
Nicotine
Smoking on an empty stomach can also increase your risk of developing lung cancer. The nicotine absorbed by the body on an empty stomach can be greater than when the stomach is filled. Thus, the greater the risk of developing lung cancer.
The nicotine in cigarettes can also have many adverse health effects, such as an increase in blood pressure, heart rate, and blood flow to the heart, as well as causing constriction and hardening of the arteries. All of these things can then increase the risk of a heart attack. Nicotine is also an addictive substance that makes you addicted to cigarettes. This substance can stay in your body for 6-8 hours depending on how often you smoke.
Fasting can be your practice time to quit smoking
Fasting is a time when you have to hold back all your passions, such as appetite for food and drink, including the desire to smoke. So, fasting can be the right time for you to train yourself to reduce the number of cigarettes you consume per day. Not smoking for about 13 hours of fasting per day may be an improvement for you smokers.
The time you smoke during fasting is definitely reduced. You could smoke whenever you wanted, but during the fasting month you can only smoke when breaking the fast until just before dawn. During this limited time, reduce the number of cigarettes you "burn" little by little, so that you will become accustomed to smoking fewer cigarettes. A narrower smoking period during the fasting month may help you reduce smoking.
Start with reducing one cigarette per day, do this until you get used to it and then try to reduce one more cigarette from the previous number. Do this over and over again until you may stop smoking. Even though the fasting month is over, you can continue your efforts to quit smoking. The key is to be consistent.
