Protect your health
The top reason to give up smoking is to protect your health. Tobacco smoke contains addictive nicotine, as well as a whole range of other harmful chemicals, including carbon monoxide, formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. Smoking can cause problems including various cancers, heart disease, strokes, impotence, and osteoporosis.
Save money
A 20-a-day smoker spends around $1,500 each year on cigarettes. That does not include the cigarettes that you give away to other smokers. Life insurance would be significantly cheaper if you are a non-smoker.
Protect the health of others
Smoking not only hurts you but others around you. Second-hand smoke puts others heath at risk. Restaurants and bars are typical places where second- hand smoking is at its worst. Smoking at home not only makes your home smell but puts your family and roommates at risk.
Do it for your family
Second-hand smoke can be just a harmful as smoking. Give up smoking for those people who care about you. Smoking reduces you life expectancy. Chances are your children will live a depressed life without you there.
Save your looks
Smoking causes premature ageing. People who smoke skin are far more wrinkled, pale and generally damaged than to people who don’t. Smoking also stains the teeth.
Smell better
Smoking makes you smell like smoke.The smell of smoke stains your hair and clothes. It is usually obviuous that someone has been smoking.
Avoid smoke getting in your eyes
Smoke can lead to your eyes looking yellow. It also can lead to sight damage.
Be more sociable
Smoking can lead to you not having responsible friends or discluding you from other non smoking groups.
Avoid fertility and pregnancy risks
Smoking can have a major impact on a person’s ability to have children by affecting women’s ovaries and men’s sperm counts. Smoking whale Pregnant can harm your child. Low birth weight, premature birth, abnormal bleeding, and even miscarriage can happen during labor if you smoke.
Feel better
Smoking will probably leave you short of breath because of the tar it contains, which inhibits your lungs ability to extract oxygen from the air you breathe. Giving up smoking will have you feeling better.
Here are your top 10 reasons why not to smoke. So please for your sake and others around you quit smoking!
Resources:
http://www.realbuzz.com/en-us/link_from_homepage/index?pageID=1267
Sites to help you quit:
http://www.quitnet.com/
http://www.smokefree.gov/
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/ped_10_3.asp
http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/
