VVD is a disease that includes a set of symptoms that indicate a malfunction of the vascular system.
In modern medicine, vegetative-vascular dystonia is considered as a combination of various symptoms, and not as a separate disease. The main feature is that its symptoms cause the malaise of the whole organism.
Before diagnosing a patient with VSD, the doctor must rule out other dangerous diseases.
Smoking is especially dangerous for VSD. Why and what it can lead to, we will consider in the article.
A smoker should know that smoking and IRR are incompatible. Nicotine stresses the cardiovascular system, which already suffers a lot.
Where is the VSD?
Many experts agree that dystonia is a consequence of a psycho-emotional shock. After this, the general condition of the body worsens, which leads to a malfunction of all organs.
Causes:
- Emotional overload.
- Protracted depression.
- Constant stress.
- Weak immune system.
- Physical overload.
- Insomnia.
- Spinal problems.
- Smoking, alcohol and drugs.
General
Do not talk about how harmful is such a habit as smoking. We have all heard and read many times that smoking leads to lung cancer. In addition, the condition of the skin and hair of the teeth is significantly deteriorating. With VSD, smoking is especially dangerous, since it significantly undermines the work of the whole organism. The chances of recovery in this case are practically nullified.
Against the background of dystonia, which negatively affects the functioning of the nervous system, symptoms such as panic attacks, depression, and various phobic reactions can develop.
Smoking only exacerbates all these manifestations.
Many smokers, in order to calm down, light a cigarette after a cigarette, than saturate the body with harmful substances, which in turn has a detrimental effect on the body.
Summing up, we can say that smoking only exacerbates the IRR, which can lead to irreversible consequences.
VDS after smoking
Despite the fact that many smokers claim that quitting smoking does not improve their condition, but rather, on the contrary, this is far from the case. Of course, one or two days will not change anything in the body. You must understand that you smoked for a long time and saturated your body with harmful substances. Accordingly, it will take a lot of time to remove them from the body.
Scientists have proven that refusing cigarettes improves the body's defenses and eventually normalizes them. Symptoms of VSD after quitting smoking begin to gradually recede.
What is the danger of smoking during autonomic-vascular dystonia?
Smoking with a disease of the nervous system can be not only harmful, but also dangerous. This bad habit significantly worsens the condition of the vessels, which in turn can lead to various diseases, as well as disrupt the functioning of the heart system as a whole.
Unfortunately, not all smokers can immediately pay attention to the symptoms of VVD. They are very similar with the negative manifestations of the heavy smoker. A person, perceiving such manifestations as a consequence of his negative habit, closes his eyes to them. They turn to the doctor, as a rule, in the late stages of the disease, when long-term and intensive treatment and, accordingly, a complete rejection of their addiction are already required.
Smoking and upset
Smokers with VSD should take into account a number of factors:
- Nicotine causes tachycardia. A non-smoking healthy person has a calm heartbeat - 70 beats per minute. A smoker has a heartbeat of 80-90 beats per minute. This, in turn, prevents the heart from filling up with blood in full.
- Carbon monoxide, which enters the body along with smoke, does not allow it to be saturated with oxygen. This negatively affects the work of all organs, and especially the heart.
- Nicotine inflicts a large and often irreparable blow on the nervous system.
- A large amount of it affects the decrease in the hormone that is responsible for blood thinning, prostacyclin. Thanks to it, blood pressure decreases, which eliminates the formation of blood clots. The hormone is also responsible for the normal narrowing of blood vessels.
- All smokers have high cholesterol. This in turn leads to the formation of atherosclerotic plaques that cause a heart attack or coronary heart disease.
- Nicotine also replaces acetylcholine. This is a substance that controls the cells and tissues of the body. Nicotine is similar to him in the transmission of impulses, which leads the bodies astray. As a result, the smoker exhibits chronic overwork, feels irritable, a person begins to complain of memory, and becomes inactive. The body ceases to recognize acetylcholine and already needs nicotine, which, in principle, leads to dependence.
All these negative manifestations have a detrimental effect even on “healthy” smokers. And with vegetative-vascular dystonia, nicotine is not only harmful to health, but dangerous.
Negative manifestations after one smoked cigarette
One of the dangerous manifestations can be an increase in blood pressure, which can lead to a stroke. Even after one cigarette, the smoker begins tachycardia and vasoconstriction.
Also, often smokers have panic attacks and psycho-emotional arousal.
Even after one puff, arrhythmia and dizziness may appear.
A smoker suffering from dystonia should be aware that the symptoms of VSD during smoking are significantly exacerbated.
Subsequently, the smoker is in a vicious circle, which leads to depletion of the nervous system. Stress and tension make a person smoke a cigarette after a cigarette, which further worsens the course of the disease. Over time, the "snowball" is growing, and stopping it already becomes simply unrealistic.
How does smoking affect the heart during VSD?
As already explained earlier, nicotine affects the walls of blood vessels, carbon monoxide limits the flow of oxygen into the body. As a result of this, all the resources of the cardiac system gradually begin to deplete.
One of the dangerous symptoms is considered to be increased blood clotting, which inevitably can lead to a stroke, myocardial infarction or pulmonary infarction. Elevated levels of nicotine leads to an increase in cholesterol, and this, in turn, leads to the formation of atherosclerotic plaques.
Experts say that the combination of VSD and smoking sooner or later leads the smoker to a hospital bed in the cardiology department.
Respiratory system diseases
Very often dystonia leads to respiratory distress. A smoker several times stronger feels all the negative symptoms of this ailment:
- Lack of oxygen.
- Pant after smoking a cigarette.
- Dizziness from lack of oxygen.
As a result of nicotine abuse, a disease such as bronchial asthma can develop.
The relationship of smoking and panic attacks during IRR
We all know about the negative effects of nicotine on the body. But not all smokers understand how serious the problem can be.
Not many people know that most cases of panic attacks are associated with such a bad habit as smoking.
Smoking during VVD and panic attacks many times increase the chances of a heart attack and are strictly prohibited.
If you do not go into the details of psychopharmacology, it can be noted that nicotine increases the level of adrenaline and glutamate. This is what leads to a "narrowing of consciousness."
This condition is especially aggravated with a sharp rejection of cigarettes. The condition may be similar to when a person smokes a cigarette with narcotic components or, as they call it popularly, “weed”.
Properly selected drugs will help to get rid not only of PA, but also of a bad habit. First of all, anti-anxiety drugs are prescribed. They will help the smoker not only get rid of the main problem, but also facilitate the course of the IRR. At the next stage, the patient should be prescribed drugs aimed at combating smoking. Effective and less traumatic for the psyche will be a method of gradual reduction in dosage. A sharp rejection of nicotine will destabilize the work of all organs. In order for the body not to experience such stress, you can resort to help with a patch, nicotine pills or electronic cigarettes. These auxiliaries will provide only a small intake of nicotine in the body, gradually reducing its level.
The help of a qualified specialist will not be superfluous. High-quality psychotherapy with studies of all problems will help to quickly and least stressfully cope with the problem of smoking, neurosis, PA and VSD.
As with PA, VSD, smoking in case of neurosis is especially contraindicated. Many smokers are mistaken in thinking that cigarettes help them cope with stress. Nicotine only masks the main symptoms of the disease, driving them inside.
Reviews
According to reviews, VSD and smoking are not compatible things. The disease after prolonged abuse of cigarettes takes on an aggressive form, and for medical reasons it is necessary to refuse them. With the abandonment of a bad habit, the sense of smell is aggravated, the work of taste buds improves.
Getting rid of bad habits
Quitting smoking, especially if you have been smoking for more than one year, will be very difficult. But what you get in return is incommensurably greater. One of the main benefits is health. How to make it as safe as possible for the body?
The first thing that can help is a psychological attitude. A person must himself be aware that to quit a bad habit is what he needs first of all. Auxiliaries may be chewing gum, tablets, plasters, sweets.
In the presence of VVD, neurosis, PA during refusal of cigarettes, it is best to seek help from a specialist who will prescribe the correct treatment.
During smoking cessation with VVD, the help of a psychologist or psychotherapist will be important. It all depends on how the disease proceeds and what consequences it brings.
If the reason for the IRR was the rejection of cigarettes, then the symptoms will pass after one month.
Things to remember when quitting cigarettes:
- Drink as much clean water as possible to remove toxic substances that have accumulated during smoking from the body.
- Do not drink coffee or alcohol during therapy. These substances dull a sense of self-control.
- Get plenty of fresh air.
- Regular physical activity will help a lot. They help fight insomnia and reduce symptoms of VSD.
If smoking is the cause of VSD, quitting such a bad habit should be immediate. Learn to enjoy life as it is. Love and take care of yourself.