Why You Should Quit Smoking TODAY |
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There are more then billion smokers in the world.
Amongst them there are many who decided to stop this habit but in the end they gave up because they could not resist the temptation and “have just one more smoke”.
Some have to abandon this bad habit due to health problems.
If it is still hard for you to resist cigarettes this article might motivate you to stop smoking – today.
This article contains information about health risks of smoking and reveals the benefits you will have once you stop with this bad habit.
Dangerous Consequences of Tobacco Smoke
Cigarettes contain more than 600 ingredients which release more than 7.000 damaging substances of which 69 can cause cancer.
By inhaling tobacco smoke those substances are entering lungs and are spread through blood to other organs and the body as a whole.
Besides the fact that your clothes, skin and hair have an unpleasant smell, inhaling tobacco smoke speeds the process of aging by changing the structure of your skin.
Sense of taste and smell become “numb” so you are enjoying your food less.
If you are out of cigarettes you become anxious, ill-tempered and angry.
You often cough but by coughing you are not removing the toxins, they remain trapped in the lungs.
Negative changes encountered by smokers:
- Yellow nails, fingers and teeth
- Wrinkled skin
- Weaker sight
- Reduced appetite and bad breath
- Unpleasant caught
- Inclination to cold, flu and bronchitis
11 Serious Health Reasons to Say NO to Cigarettes
Smoking not only contributes to the process of aging but it seriously endangers the health of your body.
Nicotine affects the cardiovascular system – it causes clamping of blood vessels, induces the production of blood clots, it “steals” good cholesterol and substitutes it with the bad one, damages the blood vessel walls and causes their calcification.
With every cigarette you smoke and every year of smoking the risk of the following diseases increases:
- Lung cancer
- Oral, throat and esophagus cancer
- Blood clots
- Heart diseases
- Brain stroke
- Diabetes type 2
- Atherosclerosis
- Kidney and liver cancer
- Stomach and colon cancer
- Leukemia
- Rheumatoid arthritis
Additional risks for women include uterine and breast cancer, early menopause, problems during pregnancy and infertility.
Additional risks for men include erectile dysfunction and infertility.
Positive Effects of Non-Smoking
Even the first non-smoking day brings many small and positive changes, but keep in mind that to reduce the risk of serious diseases such as cancer it takes about 10 years.
Try to ignore occasional tensions and headaches – allow your body to adjust to positive changes.
Except short-term and long-term benefits, you will also experience positive financial gain by saving money which you usually spent on cigarettes.
Short-term benefits:
- Pleasant breath
- Wither teeth and fingers
- Your skin, hair and clothes don’t have an unpleasant smell
- Food tastes better
- Lower blood pressure
- Better circulation
- Slower heart beat
- Cleaner lungs and deeper breath
Long-term benefits:
- One year after – risk of heart attack lowers for 50%
- In 2 years – normalized sexual function
- From 5 to 15 years – brain stroke risk is the same as in non-smokers
- In 10 years – lung cancer risk lowers for 50% (if you smoked one pack a day)
- In 15 years – coronary heart disease risk is the same as in non-smokers
Those who have the love to smoke while drinking coffee should replace coffee with mint or balm tea to stop this bad habit.
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