Eat areca is addicted. What should I do?

1, eat areca is addicted and needs to quit. Areca catechu has long been proved as a first-class carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. It contains a lot of arecoline and alkaloids, among which alkaloids will react with oral mucosa, which will make oral mucosa fibrosis and increase the chance of cancer.

2, quit betel nut and quit smoking, hangover is the same, need to have strong willpower, also need to quit it, this is the key to quit addiction.

3. Betel nut withdrawal can be carried out by substitution and gradual subtraction at the same time. After you get addicted to betel nut, you can eat a piece of chewing gum instead, or you can only eat one-third of betel nut, one for three times, gradually reduce your addiction and finally quit.

4. Another key condition for quitting betel nut is that the compatriots around you should quit together, otherwise it is difficult for a person to stick to it.

5. How to prevent eat areca from becoming addicted: Choose betel nuts produced by regular manufacturers to eat, and the content of additives will be less. When you are in eat areca, you can eat in small quantities or intermittently, and limit your daily consumption. It is recommended to eat raw betel nuts instead of processed dry betel nuts.

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According to CCTV reports, as early as 2003, the World Health Organization recognized betel nut as a first-class carcinogen, along with arsenic, hexavalent chromium, dioxins and formaldehyde. However, due to the lack of relevant standards, betel nut is still sold as food in China.

According to statistics, at present, the annual output value of betel nut industry has reached 654.38+000 billion yuan, with hundreds of thousands of employees. At present, betel nut can be bought everywhere in the market, and betel nut advertisements can also be seen everywhere. In China, there is no national standard for the production and sale of betel nut, but only the local standard in Hunan Province, which only regulates the processing technology and additives of betel nut, and does not mention the carcinogenic problem of betel nut itself.

Tan, deputy dean of the School of Public Health of Central South University, said that betel nut is really not suitable as a food, because it is required that the food is completely harmless. "(Betel nut) is produced according to food. I think it may become misleading. We can't recommend it to the people as a harmless food. "

Tan said that betel nut can be classified as tobacco, but not as food. There is a sentence on the cigarette case-smoking is harmful to health. Take betel nut as an example, the same method can be used. It is necessary to tell the people that chewing betel nut is harmful to their health, and then the people will weigh whether to eat or not.

It is reported that India is the country with the largest consumption of betel nut in the world, and the incidence of oral cancer ranks first in the world. Betel nuts now commercially produced in India have been required to be labeled as obviously harmful. Some experts have called for China to take relevant measures as soon as possible, label the ingredients and contents of betel nut itself on betel nut packaging, give a full warning, and rationally regulate betel nut industry.

Oral cancer caused by chewing betel nut for a long time was once an endemic disease, with high incidence in India and Pakistan where betel nut is abundant, as well as in Taiwan Province Province, Hunan Province and Hainan Province of China. In recent years, its sales have been expanding. According to a series of consumption data published by Taobao 20 1 1, betel nut is the most addictive snack in China.

Why does long-term chewing betel nut cause cancer? Experts explained that betel nut contains a large amount of arecoline with cytotoxicity. After the oral mucosa reacts with it, it can lead to oral mucosa fibrosis, which is a precancerous lesion of oral cancer and can develop into oral cancer in severe cases.

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People's Daily CCTV survey shows that betel nut carcinogenic experts say it can be labeled as a warning that chewing betel nut is harmful.