Quit smoking for your health

Inhale of Nicotine along with smoke to the body from mouth is basically Smoking. Those people, smokers and other tobacco users, are more likely to develop disease and die earlier than people who do not use tobacco. If you smoke, you may worry about what it is doing to your health. The reason is “Nicotine”. It is a drug found naturally in tobacco. It is as addictive as heroin or cocaine. Over time, a person becomes physically dependent on and emotionally addicted to nicotine. The physical dependence causes unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when you try to quit. The emotional and mental dependence (addiction) make it hard to stay away from nicotine after you quit. 

Why to quit?

• There are more than 4,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke. Some of them are also in wood varnish, the insect poison DDT, arsenic, nail polish remover, and rat poison. The ashes, tar, gases, and other poisons in cigarettes harm your body over time. They damage your heart and lungs. They also make it harder for you to taste and smell things, and fight infections.
• Cigarette smoking is associated with deficiencies in auditory-verbal learning and/or memory, general intellectual abilities, visual search speeds, processing speed, cognitive flexibility, working memory and executive functions, across a wide age range.
• Many people with fatal heart attacks or strokes are autopsied, there are often precancerous lesions found that indicate that if these people had a few more years to live they would have eventually succumbed to these smoking induced diseases.
• Smoking is a principal, preventable cause of premature death in the developed world. It is a major cause of coronary artery disease (CAD), a condition where the blood vessels supplying the heart muscles become narrowed leading to chest pains (angina) or heart attacks.
• It affects everything from blood vessels associated with hearing, to the skin blood supply that shows itself in wrinkles, early aging, hair loss and tooth loss.

Ways to quit

• Decide for sure that you want to quit. Promise yourself that you will do it. It is okay to have mixed feelings. Do not let that stop you. There will be times every day that you do not feel like quitting. Stick with it anyway! Find reasons to quit that are important to you. Think of more than just health reasons. For example, think of:
• How much money you will save by not buying cigarettes, check here!
• The time you will have for yourself instead of taking cigarette breaks, rushing out to buy a pack, or searching for a light.
• Not being short of breath or coughing as much.
• Setting a better example for your children.
• You will feel healthier right away.
• You will have more energy and better focus.
• Your senses of smell and taste will be better.
• You will have whiter teeth and fresher breath.
• You will cough less and breathe better.
• You will be healthier the rest of your life.
• You will lower your risk for cancer, heart attacks, strokes, early death, cataracts, and skin wrinkling.
• You will make your partner, friends, family, kids, grandchildren, and coworkers proud of you.
• Your children will be healthier (fewer ear infections, coughs, and severe asthma attacks).
• You will be proud of yourself.
• You will feel more in control of your life.
• You will be a better role model for your children.
• You will have more money to spend.
•  You won't have to worry: "When will I get to smoke next?" or "What do I do when I am in a smoke free place?

References

• http://www.smokefree.gov/qg-thinking-impact.aspx

• http://smokefree.nhs.uk/

• http://whyquit.com/

• http://www.cancer.org/Healthy/StayAwayfromTobacco/GuidetoQuittingSmoking/guide-to-quitting-smoking-why-so-hard-to-quit