10 Reasons To Quit Smoking

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.