Benefits of quitting smoking
July 9, 2008
Smoking is highly prevalent and widely encountered in all the social circles. The advertisements in the media and cigarette puffing heroes in the movies further add fuel to the fire projecting macho images of the smokers. The adolescents are under constant peer pressure to take that first puff and then become part of the smoking club for ever. Higher the status, more refined the smoking becomes. One starts on cigarettes and experiments with cigars. The terrible hindsight is that nicotine addiction of smoking slowly overpowers weakening your will to quit smoking.
REASONS TO QUIT SMOKING
- All scientific researches till date have pointed out towards to the adverse effects on health and vitality of the smokers.
- There is definite evidence that the life span of smokers becomes less as compared to the non smokers. The average years that get lessened are five.
- The incidence of onset of all kinds of cancer (like lung cancer and bronchitis where smoke chokes the lining of alveoli that are responsible for exchange of fresh gases) increases comparatively higher in smokers
- Smokers get tired out more easily
BENEFITS OF QUITTING SMOKING
The health benefits of quitting smoking are evident slowly as one proceeds through various stages of quitting with full family support:
1. The life expectancy rises, you shall be able to live longer with your children and see them prosper.
2. Even the persistent cough is there no longer.
3. You reduce the risk of cancer, asthma and constriction in throat.
4. All lung diseases and esophageal cancer risk diminishes.
5. Smoking is directly related to the problems of infertility. So if you decide to quit smoking, the fertility rate may get improved actually.
6. The smokers put the ladies and children at the equal risk unknowingly. Such a condition to which non smokers are subjected to is called passive smoking. The passive smokers suffer the same health problems.
7. If you are a woman and stop smoking, the chances of having fetal malformations are reduced.
Thus smoking is very detrimental to the overall health. The benefits of quitting smoking and increasing your lifespan as a result shall strengthen your will to make healthy choices for your near and dear ones. Life is a precious gift to be savored with blooming health. So, it is high time that the smokers steel their resolve to quit smoking and as the proverb goes that well begun is half done.
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