It turns out that this combination of habits can trigger harm to the body! Smoking and coffee consumption have been shown to be highly positively related; smokers consumed more coffee than non-smokers and, in smokers, smoking weight was associated with higher coffee consumption.
What’s the danger?
According to research by Charalambos Vlachopoulos, MD, and several other researchers from the Cardiology Department of Athens Medical School, Greece, caffeine and cigarettes consumed together can interact and produce negative effects on the heart.
The results of another study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology showed an increased risk of stiffness in the arteries was more likely to occur in participants who drank coffee and smoked together.
The combination of coffee and cigarettes can accelerate heart damage because the nicotine content in cigarettes and caffeine in coffee can make the heart work faster. One more thing, both can also cause hypertension.
Given the known harmful effects of smoking and widespread interest in the health effects of coffee or caffeine, which have been implicated (often as a protective factor) in a number of diseases including cancer, depression, and diabetes.
How do they damage the body?
Because the effect is the same, caffeine in coffee and nicotine in cigarettes work to reinforce each other. When the heart works too fast due to the effects of these two compounds, the burden it carries will increase so that over time it will be damaged quickly.
Smoking induces the cytochrome P450 1A2 (CYP1A2) enzyme, which is the main enzyme involved in caffeine metabolism, and smoking experimentally decreases plasma caffeine levels.
Therefore, accelerated elimination of caffeine by smoking tobacco may lead to increased caffeine tolerance and coffee consumption. There may also be behavioral associations, as cigarettes and coffee are often consumed together.
Nandhita Nur Fadjriah
(FIR)
