Khaberni - The habit of smoking after eating meals has spread, but in Ramadan, it is more harmful as the smoker begins his first moments of breaking the fast with it to cope with the symptoms of deprivation felt during the long hours of fasting.
Dr. "Wael Safwat," the head of the International Committee of the American Society for Smoking Cessation, explains the severe damage that occurs to the smoker when starting their first moments of breaking the fast with a cigarette, saying: "Due to the long fasting hours during Ramadan, the body loses the fluids it was storing and with taking the first cigarette, nicotine strongly returns, causing blood vessels of the body to constrict and increasing the heart rate."
He adds, the long fasting hours have many benefits, as they expel all toxins from the body such as "carbon monoxide," and when taking the cigarette, the smoker feels an imbalance in their body and experiences dizziness and spinning, due to the return of the carbon monoxide toxin, which works to expel oxygen from the body.
Dr. "Wael Safwat" notes that most smokers suffer from various degrees of invisible heart fractures and the first cigarette after Maghrib could be the reason for the significant appearance of the disease and exposure to many heart attacks.
With daily repetition of fasting and the body losing toxins throughout the day and their return in different quantities after breaking the fast, the individual feels the imbalance.
