Compelling reasons for not smoking

Posted by Ann Brown | January 31st, 2010 in Quit Smoking Reasons, Smoking and Health Care | 1 Comment »

reason to quit smoking

Is it bad to smoke? o Is it just propaganda? One in 5 women in the U.S. smoke despite all government efforts to raise awareness about the dangers of this vice. In Latin America, the statistics are better but many women live surrounded by absorbing snuff smoking even during pregnancy.

Why is it important to quit smoking
There are many reasons to quit smoking these are a few:

Smoking causes health problems:

1 – Smoking increases the risk of several types of cancer, lung cancer being the most common but also increases the risk of other cancers such as cancer of the throat, mouth, larynx, esophagus, pancreas, kidney, bladder, cervix, stomach and leukemia, or blood cancer.
2 – Increased risk of serious pulmonary problems such as emphysema, chronic bronchitis, bronchitis and pneumonia.
3 – Health Issues in the heart and arteries such as aortic aneurysms, atherosclerosis, or hardening and narrowing of the arteries and increases the organism’s tendency to form blood clots.

4 – People who smoke may develop periodontal diseases (gum) disease, bad breath, stain teeth.
5 – Increases the risk of cataracts
5 – can cause stomach ulcers
6 – Among smokers the healing takes longer. It takes longer to heal from any illness and recover from operations. Anesthesia is risky but you quit several days before surgery.
7 – Greatly increase the risk among women suffer strokes

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One Response to “Compelling reasons for not smoking”

  1. Tena Virga says:

    I smoked cigarettes for most of my life and quitting was difficult. I bought all of the quit smoking gadgets but not one helped me stop. Then I saw the e cigarette. The e-cigarette uses a nicotine juice that holds only nicotine. No poisons at all. They have actually changed my life.

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