8 Great Reasons to Stop Smoking

Smoking cigarettes is a killer. Every year nearly 450,000 people die from cancers and emphysema, all related to cigarette smoking. This is a very preventable cause of what is a premature death. There’s always an excuse to not quit right now. Here’s some good reasons you quit right now:

1. You smell of cigarette smoke ALL DAY LONG. Your clothing is permiated with the smoke. Do you really want to pick up your niece or nephew, or your own baby, when you smell of this? And the smoke is on your clothes and could affect those little ones.

2. Black Tar it causes carbon dioxide and oxygen exchanges in the body. You will really feel it in your lungs.

3. Second hand smoke kills. Breathing the smoke caused by others cigarettes can cause respitory problems, even lung cancers and heart disease in others. Asthma is more prevelant in children where they are in contact with cigarette smoke.

4. Other causes from smoking: You could become infertile. Females may have a harder time getting pregnant becuase it speeds up the loss of eggs. And in males smoking puts them at more risk of erectile dysfunction. Sperm mutations have also been shown in some studies. It also causes a 25% decline in the oxygen flow to the baby.

5. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or (COPD), feels like there is an elephant setting on your chest most of the time and you can’t do the things you used to enjoy.

6. You are more apt to have high levels of LDL which is the bad cholesterol. High blood pressure and heart disease are more of a risk when you are a smoker. Dying from a heart attack is 2-4 times greater than it would be otherwise.

7. You’ll look older than you are. Why? Smoking staves off the ability for your body to repair the damage done by the environment. You will have deeper wrinkles.

8. It’s expensive. Some packs of cigarettes in some areas cost as much as $9 a pack. So just at one pack a day that can be as much as $3,285 a year. That could help to pay your way to one of the exclusive islands for a nice vacation.