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The first thing that happens when you smoke a cigarette is that you inhale a noxious mix of nicotine, various irritants and carcinogens into your lungs, stunning your cilia the tiny, hair-like projections that line your airways and making them do their job less effectively, says Lion Shahab, professor of health psychology at University College London

Surveys from 2016 and 2018, for example, found that daily smokers who believed nicotine products like patches and vapes were much less harmful than cigarettes were more likely to use those products when trying to quit smoking

If the vein is constricted, it can cause your face to swell

This article was published with the assistance of generative AI and edited by The Korea Times.