Quit Smoking Now
Do you want to quit smoking now? But why do you find it hard to stop smoking?
When smokers lit cigarettes, the nicotine from the cigarettes goes into the brain. Nicotine gives smokers good feeling. But the feeling can only last for awhile. Once the body is accustomed to nicotine, smokers will puff again to feel good. Finally, the smokers will be addicted to nicotine the same way as heroin and cocaine.
Tobacco smoke contains 4,000 toxic chemicals which causes cancer, heart disease, stroke and emphysema. It doesn't matter whether you're smoking cigarette, cigar, pipes or chewing smokeless tobacco, you reduce your life by 14 years of more.
Smoking threatens the people around you through passive smoking. Passive smoking is responsible for bronchitis and pneumonia in infants. In the United Kingdom, it causes 1,000 deaths every year. As governments becoming aware of the dangers of second hand smoke, the introduction of smoking ban are implemented in some countries.
Can you find a safe way to smoke?
No. All kinds of cigarette can harm your health as long as they emit smoke. Reducing the number of cigarette cannot protect you. Your health is still in danger. Using low tar cigarette often ends up smoking more to get the same nicotine effect.
Are you safe if you smoke and don't inhale?
No. You are still exposed to second hand smoke. Your risk of lung cancer is not removed. Smokers who use pipes or smoke cigar, often don't inhale, have a higher risk of oral cancer.
How can passive smoking be threatening?
Those who don't smoke inhale environmental tobacco smoke as the result of your smoking. They have the same health hazards as smokers. Their health risk depends on their exposure level and duration to second hand smoke.
When you are pregnant, should you quit smoking?
Yes. Cancer-causing chemicals from the tobacco smoke can pass on to fetus through your placenta, tissue, and blood.
Will the filters make any difference?
No. Cigarette filters cannot remove the toxic from cigarette smoke. They can only reduce the tar and nicotine.
Smoking doesn't benefit you. If you persist to smoke, your chances of developing smoking-related illness increase. Quit early to add on more years to your live. If a smoker quits smoking for 15 years, the smoker's health risk is the same as those who never smoke. Let your children and your spouse understand the meaning of smoking and health risk in their lives.