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Stop Smoking
By Brandon | Last edited: July 14, 2008
Remember the last puff you inhaled and that packet of cigarettes which you finished…well, congratulations, it shortened your life by another eleven minutes! In spite of knowing the fact that that smoking is so badly harmful for human health, why do people smoke? Is it a symbol of charisma, machoism, or does it makes a person trendy and cool? It is time that people take a serious check on this habit and kick it out of their lives, forever. This article will help to explain some of the side effects and importance for kicking this addiction.
To begin with, most people who even think of quitting smoking need the reasons to do so and gladly try and avoid them This is also an addiction, much like cocaine, heroin and other drugs, only in a cigarette; it is tobacco that you smoke. The nicotine in the tobacco is chiefly responsible for inducing the addiction. So after the last cigarette that you smoked, slowly your cravings for more begin to increase and reach a point that you become a pack-a-day smoker. This too rises and within no time, a cigarette is something permanent between your fingers. Here are a few devastating effects that you might want to consider.
Firstly, it increases the chance of lung cancer and many other lung ailments by almost 50% and a heart attack by 40%. In fact, 90% of deaths due to lung cancer and lung diseases are attributed to smoking and in America alone, this is responsible for the death of almost 500,000 people every year. Moreover, almost $200 billion is spent on heath care for smoking related ailments. Sleep disturbances, irritability, nervous disorders, breathing problems and a whole cartload of diseases like infertility, improper digestion accompany this so called “cool” habit.
The facts on smoking are abundant and straight-forward and all of them have a common link – death. Smoking kills. Apart from this, these are plenty of reasons to quit smoking and if you want to hear more, you could start by asking the relative of a man who has died from smoking, you may want shut your ears then. Who knows, you might be the one on that death bed. Therefore, I believe that the time has come for you to quit. But then where does one begin to quit smoking?
For great information on stopping the habit, check out 21 Tips and/or 10 Steps that can be used to help you in your fight against the smoking addiction.
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