Why Do Smokers Take Risk With Death?

Any sane organism in our eco system would be opposed to the idea of injecting poison into its system. In fact that’s how survival works. Our bodies are tuned to keep poison out of our system. Have you noticed how you throw up every time you drink more alcohol than you can handle? This is a protection mechanism to ensure that your liver does not suffer or that you don’t become brain dead. If such a mechanism did not exist there would be no end to how much alcohol you would drink. Eventually the alcohol would play its part of depressing your nerves, inducing toxins into your blood stream, increase the bile content in your liver and when all of this happens at a high level you simply die. Each living organism has a protection mechanism, which ensures survival. In fact even when someone takes poison, as a step to commit suicide, the body tries its best to eject the poison through vomit. If the poison is too strong it overcomes the body’s protection mechanism and claims the victim.

Body’s Protection Mechanism Against Smoking

Have you seen how your body reacts to your first smoke. It makes you cough, there is a sick feeling in your stomach, you feel repulsed at the taste and the feeling of fumes entering your lungs. As a youngster you will ignore these signs from your body which says "don’t inject me with such poison". You would, on contrary, go on with the effort of learning to smoke. I remember it took me around a week or so to get my smoking perfected. There were several lousy days when my body reacted to such a gross practice on my part. I had throat pains, developed ulcers in my mouth, I felt sick in the stomach with a loss of appetite, I felt my sex drive visibly reduce. These were the initial days. I ignored all these signs and headed onto becoming a smoking pro. I learnt to inhale deep and keep the smoke inside my lungs for 30 seconds or more till I felt some kinda high (which was mostly due to the carbon mono oxide numbing my brain). With time I started smoking two packs a day and my body would react to it by becoming extremely lethargic and numb.

Human Body Is A Powerful Protector

Most smokers curse their body for not being able to handle a few volumes of smoke. The opposite is true. Your body does a great job of protecting you against the toxins present in the fumes. Consider the amount of smoke, which is filtered by your lungs, at the rate of close to 40-60 cigarettes per day I had lasted for years. If the body were weak some organ would have gotten stale by all the misuse that was inflicted. Can you imagine putting your mouth across the exhaust pipe of your car and inhaling all the fumes, which was emitted? If you feel disgusted at the idea, just know that this is quite what you are doing every time you smoke a pack of cigarettes. That’s a lot of smoke and a lot of toxins. Your body manages to live but it’s impossible to perform at optimal levels. You will live below par and always at a huge disadvantage compared to non-smokers. Compared to a smoker a non-smoker’s body has more time to devote to other activities than just filtering toxins day in and day out.

Why Does the Body Gives In?

It would be great if our bodies stayed at the level of efficiency they work at during our young days. The truth is that everything in nature is exposed to decay and our bodies slowly lose their vitality as we age and finally give in to death. No one can avoid death and no one can avoid the slow degradation of the body as we grow in age. Your lungs are not quite as strong, your digestion is weak, your bowel movement is awkward, your kidneys don’t function that well, your heart becomes weak and your brain gets fuzzy, welcome to old age. A non-smoker would get to see a slow degradation as he goes through life and enters old age. A smoker will get to see the same sign as he goes into middle age or even sooner depending on the cigarette intake. A good majority never enter middle age, their bodies cave in to the toxins.

Not all human bodies come with high immunity, the survival of the fittest would get at work here. If you are extremely fit you might last your smoking till middle age or slightly more, but if you are not lucky enough to have a fit and immune body it’s a cinch that you will acquire a deadly disease by the time you hit middle age or sooner. Cancer can afflict you, if your genes are not resistant to cancerous toxins, within a year of smoking. The body gives in because it follows the law of nature "survival of the fittest". If your body is weak and you smoke, it will make it weaker and you die. If your body is quite strong but you make it weak through smoking, then it will die because you are no longer fit enough. The nature always wants evolution to give birth to stronger species. When you inflict your body with toxins and it becomes sub optimal then nature does not want you to breed since your body condition is weak. Hence it inflicts impotence within you. It’s logical if you look at it.