The Bad Effects Of Cigarette Smoking

It is a well established fact that smoking cigarettes is very bad for your health and the health of those around you.  Each stick contains hundreds of carcinogens that negatively affect your body.  Once you begin to smoke cigarettes you become addicted.  The power of theses toxic chemicals keep you needing more and more of the nicotine and other addictive chemicals.  Despite the fact that the long term effects of smoking have been proven and tested, people continue to smoke.

Smoking not only affects your body and mood, but is the single most preventable cause of death.  Specifically, if you have high cholesterol and smoke you have two major controllable risk factors against you.  Studies have shown that smoking lowers the good cholesterol in a person's body, which increases the risk factor for heart disease. There are other risk factors, such as cancer, being overweight, lack of physical activity and high blood pressure. 

Smoking decreases your ability or tolerance for physical activity, i.e., you get tired faster, will start coughing, etc.  Lack of physical activity makes it harder for an individual to obtain a good level of cholesterol and fitness. After a person quits smoking, their risk factors are cut in half after a year of no smoking.  The longer you do not smoke, the lower your risk factors to heart disease or other diseases decreases.

Additionally, second hand smoke is also dangerous.  In fact, many studies have shown that second hand smoke can be even more toxic than the smoke the person inhaling the cigarette ingests.  So by lighting up, smokers with friends and children are placing those loved ones at serious risk..

The chances are you know someone who has contracted cancer who was a smoker.  Although not always lung cancer, smokers have much greater risk of contracting cancer than those are smoke free yet people continue to smoke.

Although it takes longer for your lunges to return to its natural states, the positive thing about quitting smoking is that the lungs will regenerate themselves and "clean" themselves.  What this means is that if you are able to quit smoking your lungs will clean up over time..

Smoking is also extremely expensive.  Depending on where you live in the world a pack of 20 cigarettes can cost between $3 and $5 USD depending on the brand you smoke.  If you smoke a pack a day that is between $80 and $120 per month!  If you smoke 2 packs a day you can double that and multiply by 12 or between $1000 and $20Yes... I00 per year on something that not only useless but has been proven to poison your body and make you and your loved ones very sick!

The addictive power of cigarettes has actually spawned a niche industry and now companies are making profits helping people get off of their addiction to smoking.  While many of these patches, gums, and fake cigarettes may work many are just temporary trying to ensure you use their products more time which improves their profits.

Allow me to again emphasize the fact that you do not no what you are missing until you quit this bad and poisonous habit. Surely it will be challenging and frustrating at first bu, as soon as you quit, you will start realizing the benefits and with patience and dedication, every passing day will feel better than the previous one in terms of your breathing ability, seeing ability, smelling ability, exercising ability and your over-all physical and mental health.

The bottom line is the best way to quit smoking is to NEVER GET STARTED!  Smoking doesn't make you cool and it does not make you in a better mood or smarter in any way. All it does is make you feel a bit numb and dizzy, smelling bad and increasingly sick.  The opposite is true and eventually it will make you very sick and even kill you if you do it long enough so don't start and if you are already smoking then make it your mission of most priority to stop asap. Keep trying seriously until you over-come and achieve VICTORY. It will be one of the best decisions you make in your life and you will not only gain back your precious health but, you will gain more confidence AND you will enjoy life more. Smoke addiction is a form of slavery, free yourself.