Cigarette smoking is addictive, even in smaller dosages, stimulates and tranquilizes psychoactive effects. Tobacco Smoking makes us feel high for some time for nicotine, an alkaloid inside. Consistent studies show that it is a slow killer that impacts your health, however that impact is not felt visible but early revealed in MRI. MRI is a great revealer and saver.
Tobacco Smoking a social habit?
Tobacco or Cigarette smoking or now a day called vaping is illegal in many countries but it was not earlier. The smoke has very tantalizing sensations indescribable in words. We don't know in details how the practice of burnt Tobacco inhalation, and released from the mouth was practiced using pipes and cigars. The practice is believed to have begun as early as 5000–3000 BC in Mesoamerica and South America.
Visible Tobacco Smoking Indications
There are visible indications of knowing smoking tobacco habit: either always there, even if it is the start. There is typical burnt tobacco smell from mouth post single smoking session. On more repeated sessions, one can see burn marks in between fingers and at times formation of trough lips. But more than that there is gradually degradation of appetite and falling energy levels. In the second stage, the health parameters further reportedly get deranged. In later stages the more conspicuous symptom starts emerging like coughing, breathlessness, dizziness, etc. The period for each staging varies, maybe after 1-2 years for the initial stage to arrive. The visible features may come later and can be deceptive at times. What if we see no external changes but there are persistent internal changes happening due to tobacco smoking. This concerns.
Smokies Controls : Confirming Assessment
We know smoking Kills but to stop it requires courage and self-control. There might be some control operating seeing visible changes. But to get to know more alarming control measures upon internal changes. Sometimes internal body changes are subtle without any obvious physical discomfort or pain. What if we get to know these subtle internal changes in time, will it help us retain control over our habits and mend them necessarily. How to know the internal changes beforehand? It is very much possible with MRI. Periodic MRI can get us to know the state of internal organs and systems.
MRI as Smoking traction and Control
MRI is an imaging technique that provides Radiologists with a wealth of information that could track health if the habitual smoking individual. We all know that MRI scans can show organs, bones, muscles and blood vessels in detail. But the systems mostly compromised in the case of Tobacco Smoking is a pulmonary system, digestive system, circulatory system and nerve system. Radiology goes to normally unseeable parts of these systems and gives us proper indication of impact.
Radiologists generate primary LUNG MRI reports, Cardiac Angiography Reports and Contrast MRI Brain report to access the level of damage done by smoking.
But at times there are risks of typical findings missing out hence increasingly referring physicians in Europe prefers secondary opinion. This could be made even better with a second opinion panel situation where your lung or cardiac and brain are studied by 3-4 Radiologists.
The results help further with good advice to retract the habit of smoking or awareness takes us to voluntary controls. Hence, the most important tool is MRI. The primary report and second opinion could come as easy help.