Why To Quit The Habit Of Smoking

We all have heard that smoking is bad for health or smoking kills but many of us do not exactly know how harmful smoking can be and the risks associated with smoking cigarettes. If you are not a smoker and any of your friend or family member used to smoke cigarette while you are around them then, you are also at risks of various types of disease as you are inhaling the smoke that is produced from a cigarette. 

Smoking a cigarette not only harms the active smoker but, also the passive smoker. So, everyone should know about the harms and risk associated with smoking so, that a non-smoker can advice others to stop smoking.  There are various adverse effects of smoking and many people in the world die at an early stage because of smoking. A cigarette contains tobacco and the numbers of deaths that are due to tobacco are more in number in comparison to other such as death due to accident, suicide and other disease. 

Smoking causes cancer and it is one of the harmful disease that can lead to death. Smoking increases the health risks and smokers are at high risks of coronary heart disease in comparison to non-smokers various types of cardiovascular disease are caused due to smoking. When a smoker smokes a cigarette then, the blood vessels inside his body gets narrowed as blood circulation is reduced. With this the smoker is at risk of peripheral vascular disease.

People who smoke cigarette have various reasons when they are asked why they smoke. Some smoke to stay cool and others smoke to reduce their tension and stress, but the truth is that smoking only increases the level of stress and it will only harm you and your body.  Many people become smokers as they have smokers in their family or their friends used to smoke cigarettes.  Most commonly youngsters are seen smoking cigarettes and this starts when they enter college.  Young people never starts expecting that they will be addicted to smoking cigarettes, but  this happens with many of them and with the span of time addiction to smoking increases and in the later stages it becomes difficult to stop smoking cigarettes. 

You might have heard people who are smokers saying that “I really want to quit smoking, but I am not able to do so’ or ‘I know I will quit someday’ these statements are common. Many of the smokers actually try hard to quit smoking and finally after many efforts they succeed in accomplishing their task to quit the bad habit of smoking, but this is not the case with all.

 

The reason why the remaining people are not able to give up smoking is the addiction to nicotine which is an addictive substance. Breaking the habit of smoking becomes hard because of nicotine with which the smoker’s body and mind is used too and the deficiency of nicotine increases the desire to smoke cigarette. The person won’t feel normal till he smokes a cigarette. 

Many quit smoking devices are available in market and various medicines are available with which user can try to leave smoking. Electronic cigarette are also used by many smokers as a safe alternative to smoking. These cigarettes do not have tobacco which contains chemicals causing cancer such as Formaldehyde, Toluene and many other toxins  and chemicals such as Arsenic, Benzene, Beryllium, Cadmium, nickel etc. Electronic cigarettes are battery operated device and they can be used at public places such as public transports, malls, airports in many countries. These cigarettes are not prohibited at those places where regular cigarettes are usually banned in various countries.