Why Quit Smoking
There is so much good reason as to why quit smoking is very important to ones health and it can all be summed up as it makes good sense. Health sense for you as the smoker, for others around you and for the environment, and it even makes dollar sense in terms of money and time you make from stopping.
The most important reason not to smoke is your health. Smoking is the single largest preventable cause of death in the US and indeed in the world and there is no benefit derived from smoking. On the other hand, if you stop, the benefits are immediate and progressive :
- In 20 minutes, your blood pressure drops back to normal
- In 8 hours oxygen levels in your bloodstream return to normal
- In 48 hours all nicotine will have left your body, your sense of smell and taste are restored and there is reduction in your chance of having a heart attack
- In 72 hours your bronchials go back to normal and energy levels increase
- In 2 weeks your circulatory system is revitalized
- In 3-9 months problems of wheezing, coughing, breathing fade away and your lung capacity improves by 10%
- Within a year risk of a heart attack has dropped by half
- In 5 years the risk of having a stroke is the same as that of a non-smoker
- In 10 years your risk of lung cancer is the same as that of a non-smoker.
Why Quit smoking is a good idea for the health of those around you. Passive smokers including children, infants and unborn babies especially where the mother is the smoker are at risk of serious heart, lung and respiratory disease including the risk of death through lung cancer from second hand smoke.
The money you will save from cessation of smoking is astronomical, money that could go into buying or investing into benefits that will be yours for a lifetime.
Quitting cigarettes even saves you time. Do you know that a lot of time and energy goes into buying cigarettes, making sure you have enough to last the night, finding the lighter, emptying the ashtrays,and in some places these days even finding a place to smoke uses up time?
So why quit smoking, because there is not one good reason to keep smoking.
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i stopped smoking a couple of months ago and it was very difficult to stop my cigarette cravings. nicotine patches helped me a lot to quit smoking.
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I have difficulty Quitting Smoking . Now i am trying these Nicotine Patches so that i can Stop Smoking as soon as possible. I hope these nicotine patches works.
It is one year now since I Quit smoking and I don’t think I’ll ever smoke again. My life improved a lot, in new ways I never thought of in connection with quitting smoking. For instance, my life in hotel rooms got better. Before, I used to ask for a smoking room whenever I checked in a hotel. Smoking rooms have a bad smell, regardless the hotel category or cleanliness. Maybe they don’t smell if the hotel is new but this I cannot tell. Many times I had to endure that bad odor, being ashamed to go and ask for another room at the reception. I noticed that improvement from the first time I checked in a hotel as non-smoker and I was impressed of the nice flowery scent of the room.
i have not been smoking for about 2 years now thanks to nicotine patches and a lot of self-discipline. the withdrawal symptoms i got from quitting smoking was not nice though.
Write a list of reason you LIKE smoking. It may seem counter to your needs to quit smoking but ignoring why you like smoking & why you continue to smoke is important so that psychologically you can overcome these things or leave them behind or replace them with something. Ignoring them basically means when cravings hit those reasons subconsciously attack your reasoning & resolve.