Below you will find 10 of the hundreds of reasons one should stop smoking. Read through them all, and see how your life as a smoker would be different if you would quit smoking and start living a healthier life.
1. Bad Odor
Smoking carries with it a very unique odor, that will follow you everywhere. It saturates your clothes, hair, car, home and your breath. You reek of it all day long. No amount of mints or gum are going to get rid of that bad breath, let alone the amount of air freshener it takes to get your house and car back to smelling normal.
2. Lots more Wrinkles
You can always pick a smoker out of a crowd. Aside from the odor that is following them, they have more than 10 times the amount of wrinkles as a non-smoker. Not to mention the greyish pale skin, and yellow teeth and fingers.
3. Your Lungs fill with Toxic Substances
Okay maybe not quite toxic, but they do fill with phlegm, mucus and tar. As your lungs fill with these substances it reduces the amount of oxygen and nutrients between the tissues and bloodstream. Smokers also have a lot harder time breathing. Stop smoking and within 12 hours your lungs begin the healing process.
4. Are you Depressed?
Smokers are twice as likely to become depressed than non-smokers. So if you find yourself down in the dumps or always looking at the world negatively it could be from your daily nicotine intake.
5. Pricey
Have you ever stopped and figured up how much money you spend a week or a month on cigarettes. You might as well roll up six dollar bills, light em and let em burn everyday. Thats almost $2,000 every year, even more if you are paying seven to nine dollars for every pack of cigarettes. What if you smoked your entire life from age 18 til you die at age 65? Figure that up, at six dollars a pack, and one pack a day that is over $85,000, you just burnt a car or a house in some markets.
6. Want to have children?
When you smoke you lower the ability have children. If you a woman it makes it more and more difficult to become pregnant, and if you are a man it makes you infertile, and harder to get a woman pregnant. Not to mention the possibility of having erectile dysfunctions.
7. Problem Pregnancy
If you are pregnant, be prepared to have some difficulties with your pregnancy. Women who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to experience complicated pregnancies, where the fertilized egg begins to develop in the slender fallopian tube instead of the uterus. Because of your smoking, your baby may have a lower birth weight and birth defects too. You are also more likely to deliver prematurely or miscarry.
8. Bad Role Model
If you have children then you'll know what I mean. Children like to imitate their parents. So if mommy or daddy smoke, that makes it cool or ok to do. So be a good role model and stop smoking, if not for you, then for your children or the children you are around.
9. Second Hand Smoke
Not only is it a bad influence to smoke around others, but it kills them too. By the time you child is 5 years old they will have inhaled the equivalence of 102 packs of cigarettes. Children and adults who are exposed to second-hand smoke are at a higher risk of developing lung cancer and other respiratory problems, including shortness of breath, coughing and more phlegm.
10. Smokers Die Young
Smokers die a lot younger than non-smokers, studies have shown that one cigarette will take 7 minutes off your life. Not to mention the higher risk of heart attacks, respiratory problems, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and lung disease.
So I hope that after reading just some of the side effects smoking has on you and the ones you love you are ready to quit. If you are, there are plenty of resources out there for you.
1. Bad Odor
Smoking carries with it a very unique odor, that will follow you everywhere. It saturates your clothes, hair, car, home and your breath. You reek of it all day long. No amount of mints or gum are going to get rid of that bad breath, let alone the amount of air freshener it takes to get your house and car back to smelling normal.
2. Lots more Wrinkles
You can always pick a smoker out of a crowd. Aside from the odor that is following them, they have more than 10 times the amount of wrinkles as a non-smoker. Not to mention the greyish pale skin, and yellow teeth and fingers.
3. Your Lungs fill with Toxic Substances
Okay maybe not quite toxic, but they do fill with phlegm, mucus and tar. As your lungs fill with these substances it reduces the amount of oxygen and nutrients between the tissues and bloodstream. Smokers also have a lot harder time breathing. Stop smoking and within 12 hours your lungs begin the healing process.
4. Are you Depressed?
Smokers are twice as likely to become depressed than non-smokers. So if you find yourself down in the dumps or always looking at the world negatively it could be from your daily nicotine intake.
5. Pricey
Have you ever stopped and figured up how much money you spend a week or a month on cigarettes. You might as well roll up six dollar bills, light em and let em burn everyday. Thats almost $2,000 every year, even more if you are paying seven to nine dollars for every pack of cigarettes. What if you smoked your entire life from age 18 til you die at age 65? Figure that up, at six dollars a pack, and one pack a day that is over $85,000, you just burnt a car or a house in some markets.
6. Want to have children?
When you smoke you lower the ability have children. If you a woman it makes it more and more difficult to become pregnant, and if you are a man it makes you infertile, and harder to get a woman pregnant. Not to mention the possibility of having erectile dysfunctions.
7. Problem Pregnancy
If you are pregnant, be prepared to have some difficulties with your pregnancy. Women who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to experience complicated pregnancies, where the fertilized egg begins to develop in the slender fallopian tube instead of the uterus. Because of your smoking, your baby may have a lower birth weight and birth defects too. You are also more likely to deliver prematurely or miscarry.
8. Bad Role Model
If you have children then you'll know what I mean. Children like to imitate their parents. So if mommy or daddy smoke, that makes it cool or ok to do. So be a good role model and stop smoking, if not for you, then for your children or the children you are around.
9. Second Hand Smoke
Not only is it a bad influence to smoke around others, but it kills them too. By the time you child is 5 years old they will have inhaled the equivalence of 102 packs of cigarettes. Children and adults who are exposed to second-hand smoke are at a higher risk of developing lung cancer and other respiratory problems, including shortness of breath, coughing and more phlegm.
10. Smokers Die Young
Smokers die a lot younger than non-smokers, studies have shown that one cigarette will take 7 minutes off your life. Not to mention the higher risk of heart attacks, respiratory problems, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and lung disease.
So I hope that after reading just some of the side effects smoking has on you and the ones you love you are ready to quit. If you are, there are plenty of resources out there for you.
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