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If you are a smoker you have thought about giving up smoking, this is for sure. Of course you know about some of the harmful effects of smoking and maybe you feel not as productive as you were before you started puffing stress away. We want to try to motivate you giving up that ugly habit.
Stop Smoking
Stop smoking is not easy. If you have tried it before you are nodding right now. Fortunately giving up smoking can improve not only your health, fitness and life in general but also your life expectancy. Try not to wait until your current pack is finished or until a certain stressful situation is behind you, try to stop smoking as quickly as you can!
Quit Smoking
If you quit smoking your health will benefit from it immediately. If you quit smoking you will dramatically reduce the risk of developing cancer, heart, lung and various other diseases. This way you will also have no problems with gangrene or amputation.
Quit smoking also means that you protect the health of others. Secondhand smoke is highly underestimated. It can cause people suffering from disease like Asthma, cancer or glue ear and premature death in children and adults.
Quit smoking today and improve your breathing and general fitness. You will also rediscover your gustative nerve, food and drinks will taste more intensive and better.
Effects of Smoking
First of all the most negative of all effects of smoking is that it kills you. Another negative effect of smoking comes from the mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide a smoker inhales. Both chemicals increases the heart rate and blood pressure for a short period of time. This stresses your heart and blood vessels and can cause heart attacks and stroke.
Smoking Facts
Smoking facts usually drive people to give up smoking. We have some shocking smoking facts for you as well. For example the figure that every year 390,000 Americans die from smoking. That is because people who smoker have more than twice the risk of heart attack and two to four times the chance of cardiac arrest of a non-smoker. This means, when you give up smoking rapidly reduce your risk of dying from a heart disease.
The smoke of a single cigarette contains more than 4,000 different chemicals of which 43 are well known cancer-causing. Along with 599 ingredients and additives 400 different deadly toxins like nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide, pesticides, formaldehyde, cadmium, ammonia, benzene, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, DDT, fungicides and nickel can be found in a cigarette.
One in two longterm smokers die because of their habit. One out of four smokers dies in his middle age because of smoking. Maybe that is because tar coats his lungs. The regular smoker who has 20 cigarettes a day consumes up to 210 g of tar each year.
