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Delhi,,
Heart patients should avoid smoking and taking coffee early in the morning in winter said Padma Shri & Dr. B.C. Roy National Awardee, Dr. KK Aggarwal, President, Heart Care Foundation of India.
Both smoking and caffeine can acutely raise the blood pressure by as much as 10 mmHg. The rise in blood pressure can be greater in susceptible individuals. The effect is most prominent with the first cigarette of the day in habitual smokers.
In patients with mild high blood pressure, habit of smoking and drinking coffee, elevation of day time upper systolic blood pressure can be up to 6 mmHg during winters.
Heart patients, therefore, should avoid taking cigarette, coffee, tea, with or without a cigarette early in the morning.
It was proved that smoking a cigarette in the first 30 minutes after waking up in the morning increases the risk of getting lung cancer by 79%. According to a recent US study, the morning cigarette increases of risk of getting lung cancer substantially.
The cause of this phenomenon has not been precisely determined, but it seems that if we smoke as soon as we wake up in the morning, the smoke and all its harmful components penetrate the lungs. Still, we must remind the fact that those that feel the need to smoke right after they wake up in the morning are hardcore smokers and they smoke more during the day.
The results of this new study are what the doctor’s advice, who tells their patients who cannot manage to quit smoking to delay the first cigarette of the day for as much as possible.
