Do You Want to Stop Smoking?

Do you want to stop smoking and avoid the following?

• A gradually deteriorating personal appearance due to the combined effect of heat and smoke on your body. These are a loss of elasticity of the skin leading to wrinkles on the face with especially deep vertical lines on the upper lip in time. The skin around the mouth can also suffer yellowish discolouration from cigarettes heat over time, as does the skin of the fingers and the finger nails. 
• An unattractive smile due to a combination of staining of the teeth which becomes more stubborn as time passes, and a stale odour on the breath. 
• An increased risk of developing serious heath problems, shortening your life span and being debilitated during the last years of your life. Smoking causes irritation of the lining of the throat and lungs. It can cause mouth, throat or lung cancer to develop over time. If not causing cancer of the lung there is a high risk of emphysema and bronchitis which can be extremely debilitating due to reduction in lung capacity and function. It leads to increasing difficulty with breathing and increased susceptibility to infectious diseases. 
• An increased risk of macular degeneration, one of the most common causes of blindness in older people, and,

If you are a woman, the extra sex-related risks associated with smoking and birth control pills.

No matter how old you are or how long you have smoked, quitting can help you live longer and be healthier. People who stop smoking before the age of 50 cut their risk of dying in the next 15 years by half compared to those who carry on smoking. Ex-smokers enjoy a higher quality of life with fewer illnesses from cold and flu viruses, and less prevalence of bronchitis and pneumonia.

So what do you think? Do you want to stop smoking now? Do you want to know what happens when a smoker quits?

20 minutes later your heart rate and blood pressure drop.

3 months later your circulation has improved along with your lung function…

Between 1 and 9 months later your coughing and shortness of breath are decreasing. The little hair-like structures called cilia along the lining of the airways and lungs regain their function which is to move mucus away from the lungs, removing contaminants.

1 year later. The excess risk of coronary heart disease is reduced to half that of a smokers.

5 years after quitting : Now your stroke risk is reduced to less than half that of a smoker.

15 years after quitting : The risk now of coronary heart disease is pretty much the same as that for a non-smoker.

The prospect of better health is a major reason to give up smoking but there are others.

Smoking is expensive and a regular smoker can easily rack up a cost of more than £1000 per year! That would be in excess of ten thousand pounds over ten years – enough to buy a new car. This of course doesn’t take into account the cost of treating illness that can occur as a result of smoking or the increased life insurance premiums required from a smoker.

Let’s face it. smoking is much less socially acceptable today than it used to be. Passive smoke inhalation is a known risk making smokers less than popular. Almost all workplaces have some kind of smoking restrictions or rules. Studies show that smokers tend to get sick more often and employers are aware of this.

So, if you want to keep your job, be socially successful, and live a long and healthy life , you might want to consider giving up smoking.

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