Stop Smoking Tips

Do you REALLY need to ask why it’s good to stop smoking?

You’d have to be living under a rock for the past 10 years if you haven’t heard the news casts, been bugged by friends and relatives, given the ‘talk’ by your doctor or read in a magazine all of the nasty things that happen to your body with each and every puff of the cigarette.

But let’s assume for a minute that you know the general things that go wrong but you aren’t sure what happens to the body on the short term and the long term. Let’s take a quick minute to review them to help you find a great reason to top smoking.

1. You are 10 times more likely to die from cancer of the mouth, throat, and esophagus than those who don’t smoke.
2. 12 times more likely to die of lung cancer or some form of lung disease
3. 10 times more likely to die of cancer of the lanynx
4. 6 times more likely to die of heart disease
5. 2 times more likely to die of a stroke
6. Tobacco causes more than 430,000 deaths of adults per year in the US
7. 5 million under 18 will die prematurely from smoking related diseases
8. There are over 4,000 chemicals identified in cigarettes – over 43 of which are known to cause cancer in humans
9. Over 3,000 people exposed to passive smoke die of lung cancer each year
10. Between 150,000 and 300,000 children less than 18 months experience lower respiratory illnesses each year with an exacerbation of asthma triggered by smoke.

I said “10 reasons” but here are two more that are really important to remember:

11. Smoking of any and all cigarettes damages your health
12. Filtered cigarettes don’t filter out the chemicals that do the damage

Then here are some statistics about people who smoke:

1. More men smoke than women
2. American Indians or Native Alaskans have a higher rate of smoking than other ethnic groups
3. People with 16 or more years of education are the least likely to smoke.

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