We all know now that smoking is not good for you, and quitting is not easy, but with the help of an Electronic Cigarette your chances of successfully quitting smoking have greatly increased.
Cigarettes contain more than 4000 chemicals, and 80 known carcinogens that cause cancer and other life threatening illnesses.
Why should I quit?
Everyone has their own reason for wanting to quit, here are some of the most common ones.
- Improve your health and reduce risk of smoking related diseases.
- Enjoy a better quality of life, be fitter and healthier.
- Be a better role model for your family.
- Have more money in your pocket.
- Smoking won’t dictate your daily routine.
- Improve your image, have better skin, teeth, hair and a smoke free home.
- Reduce the work you have to do to keep your home and car clean.
- Improve the quality of the air in your home.
- Improve your self-esteem and to be better able to deal with the daily stresses of life.
Smoking Facts:
1 in every 2 smokers will die of a tobacco related disease
Most smokers (83%) regret that they ever started smoking
Every 6.5 seconds someone in the world dies from tobacco use = 1.5 million people dying needlessly each year.
How does smoking affect health?
Cigarette smoke contains about 4,000 different chemicals which can damage the cells and systems of the human body. These include at least 80 chemicals that can cause cancer (including tar, arsenic, benzene, cadmium and formaldehyde).
When a smoker inhales, these chemicals are drawn into the body where they interfere with cell function and cause problems ranging from cell death to genetic changes which lead to cancer.
This is why tobacco smoking is a known or probable cause of approximately 25 diseases. According to WHO figures, smoking is responsible for approximately six and a half million deaths worldwide every year.
Smoking is a greater cause of death and disability than any single disease. By 2020, the WHO expects the worldwide death toll to reach 10 million, causing 17.7 per cent of all deaths in developed countries.
Smoking damage
There are hundreds of examples and volumes of research showing how cigarette smoking damages the body. For example, UK studies show that smokers in their 30s and 40s are five times more likely to have a heart attack than non-smokers.
Smoking contributes to coronary artery disease (atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries) where the heart’s blood supply becomes narrowed or blocked, starving the heart muscle of vital nutrients and oxygen, resulting in a heart attack. As a result smokers have a greatly increased risk of needing complex and risky heart bypass surgery. Smoking also increases the risk of having a stroke, because of damage to the heart and arteries to the brain.
If you smoke for a lifetime, there is a 50 per cent chance that your eventual death will be smoking-related – half of all these deaths will be in middle age.
Lung cancer is a difficult cancer to treat – long term survival rates are poor.
Smoking also increases the risk of the following cancers:
Oral
Uterine
Liver
Kidney
Bladder
Stomach
Cervical
Leukaemia
Even more common among smokers is a group of lung conditions called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD which encompasses chronic bronchitis and emphysema. These conditions cause progressive and irreversible lung damage, and make it increasingly difficult for a person to breathe.
Harm to children from smoking
Smoking in pregnancy greatly increases the risk of miscarriage, is associated with lower birth weight babies, and inhibits child development. Smoking by parents following the birth is linked to sudden infant death syndrome, or cot death, and higher rates of infant respiratory illness, such as bronchitis, colds, and pneumonia.
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