Smoking Effects

Yes it is true that to give up smoking can be very difficult, maybe even more difficult than giving up cocaine, but it can be done and it has been done. If you are making that decision to quit, you will find immense benefits from recovering health, well-being and psychological freedom that you will not believe you were tied up by just that cigarette and that incredible urge for another puff.
Why Give Up Smoking?
The first reason is that of general health. Harmful and toxic chemicals such as nicotine are eliminated from your body as quickly as 48 hours after your last cigarette. Smoking is a killer and is the biggest cause of preventable death in the UK and in America. Second-hand smoking also causes serious disease in the non-smoker and more so for children, infants and the unborn. The list of disease is long:

• lung cancer

• pulmonary diseases

• heart disease

• cervical cancer in women

• stroke

• impotence among many others.

Smoking not only affects your breathing, but your other senses too like sight, smell, taste. The smell of smoke hangs around your breath, hair, hands, clothes, bedding and house more or less permanently.
Smoking is very expensive and you will be amazed at just how much money you save by quitting cigarettes.

How Do You Give Up Smoking?

• The first thing is to make the decision to quit and to stay with it.

• Set a definitive date on which to begin your program.

• Before this date, remove from around you and destroy all cigarettes, ash-trays and other smoking paraphernalia.

• enlist support and encouragement from family, friends and also your doctor, letting them know of your stop smoking plan.

• Support groups such as Nicotine Anonymous are also available and offer invaluable help.

• See the doctor for advise in case you may need Nicotine replacement therapy by way of gum, patches or inhalers to help cope with withdrawal symptoms and the craving for a cigarette.

• Stay away from smokers as far as possible, from smoke-filled rooms and from situations that easily trigger the urge to smoke.

Enjoy smoke-free living at last. To give up smoking is a good and the right step. Feel encouraged to take that step today.