10 Reasons To Quit Smoking
- Mariza Avgoustides
- Apr 7, 2020
- 2 min read
1. Tobacco use can lead to tobacco/nicotine dependence and serious health problems.Quitting smoking greatly reduces the risk of developing smoking-related diseases.
2.Smoking can increase the likelihood of having a stroke by 2 to 4 times. Strokes can cause brain damage and death.
One way that stroke can cause brain injury is through a brain aneurysm, which occurs when the wall of the blood vessel weakens and creates a bulge. This bulge can then burst and lead to a serious condition called a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
3.Smoking can make bones weak and brittle, which is particularly dangerous for women, who are more prone to osteoporosis and broken bones.
4. The immune system protects the body against infection and disease. Smoking compromises this and can lead to autoimmune diseases, such as Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis.
Smoking has also been linked to type 2 diabetes.
5.Smoking causes around 30 percent of all cancer deaths in the U.S. In the case of lung cancer, around 80 percent of all deaths are caused by smoking.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in both men and women; it is extremely difficult to treat.
Tobacco smoke has around 7,000 chemicals in it, and around 70 of those are directly linked to causing cancer.
6.Perhaps the most obvious part of the body affected by smoking is the lungs. In fact, smoking can impact the lungs in a number of different ways.
Primarily, smoking damages the airways and air sacs (known as alveoli) in the lungs.
Often, lung disease caused by smoking can take years to become noticeable, this means it is often not diagnosed until it is quite advanced.
7.Smoking can cause bad breath and stained teeth, as well as gum disease, tooth loss, and damage to the sense of taste.
8.Women who smoke can find it more difficult to become pregnant. Women who smoke when pregnant increase a number of risks for the baby, including:
premature birth
miscarriage
stillbirth
low birth weight
sudden infant death syndrome
infant illnesses
9.Smoking reduces the amount of oxygen that can reach the skin, which speeds up the aging process of the skin and can make it dull and gray.
Smoking prematurely ages the skin by 10-20 years and makes facial wrinkling, particularly around the eyes and mouth, three times more likely.
10. Clearly smoking is deadly and by smoking you are leading yourself to death and that will not only affect you but it affects the people that love you.
I am glad to see a very detailed approach to a real and huge issue.
Reading the article carefully, I find references, which come from an in-depth effort of information and documentation, of the subject under consideration.
Having been a smoker for 52 consecutive years, I initially recognize points of reference, which I might have avoided (blindly ???), to record, in an effort, to escape indirectly from my thinking and my addiction.
At the same time, I get a direct, careful and understandable picture of the extent of the damage that such a common habit does to the human body.
I hope that the public exhibition of this position, which, in a very understandable way, encourages and aims to help…
It's been close to twenty years, that I almost quit smoking. Even though I've had some very few cigarettes within those years (during summer time mostly), I've never even thought of getting back to my bad old habitual relation with it. So, even if someone who quits for good as a start, has a week moment, needs to continue with the effort, without disappointment. Time makes it easier every day. And the goal will be reached. It can be forgotten at the end!
Well done Marizaki!! Congratulations!!
I also used to smoke, many years ago, until I had bronchitis 2 times in one year! I quit smoking right away! The best defense against bronchitis is not to smoke. Smoking damages the bronchial tree and makes it easier for viruses to cause infection. Smoking also slows down the healing time, so that it takes longer to get well. Finally, after reading in another article that people who used to smoke and had passed bronchitis had more chances to have lung cancer than a usual person who smokes took the decision to quit!!
You probably haven’t heard this before. I used to smoke many years ago until my father had a stroke. Thank God he survived it. For me it was the time where I realized what I was doing was leading to where my father was already at. I didn’t want that to happen to me as well so I quit smoking. It’s been around 18 years now and I am very proud of the wise decision I made back then.
Well done Mariza! My story is quite simple! After my mother passed away from lung cancer, I promised myself that I had to do my best in order not get this horrible disease! I managed that on the 31st December 2018 after 25 years of smoking! I have never felt healthier in my life! Keep up the good work!