Why Quit?
There are many reasons to quit, just look at the information we found about what’s in cigarette smoke.
Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known cancer-causing (carcinogenic) compounds and 400 other toxins. These include nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, as well as formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, and DDT.
Nicotine is highly addictive. Smoke containing nicotine is inhaled into the lungs, and the nicotine reaches your brain in just six seconds.
Nicotine in small doses acts as a stimulant to the brain. In large doses, it’s a depressant, inhibiting the flow of signals between nerve cells. In even larger doses, it’s a lethal poison, affecting the heart, blood vessels, and hormones. Nicotine in the bloodstream acts to make the smoker feel calm.
As a cigarette is smoked, the amount of tar inhaled into the lungs increases, and the last puff contains more than twice as much tar as the first puff. Carbon monoxide makes it harder for red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout the body. Tar is a mixture of substances that together form a sticky mass in the lungs.
Most of the chemicals inhaled in cigarette smoke stay in the lungs. The more you inhale, the better it feels—and the greater the damage to your lungs.
Just the information provided above should be more than enough, but read through our site, and we’ll tell you more reasons. You can go through the forums and community to read more about other members and why they quit.
The moment you smoke your last cigarette your body will immediately benefit. As well as the health benefits you will have more energy, vitality and more money in your pocket.
Every day that you refrain from putting a cigarette to your lips is another day to reclaiming your life back. You will notice that when you quit smoking that your food will taste better and your sense of smell will have improved.
When you quit smoking you will notice that your clothes, body and hair will no longer have that strong pungent stink.
If you need more reasons to quit smoking try these:
Within minutes of having your last cigarette your heart rate and pressure will reduce.
The levels of carbon monoxide in your blood stream will drop after 12 hours since you smoked your last cigarette.
After 3 months the health and functioning of your lungs starts to improve. Your risk of coronary heart disease also falls.
In the first 9 months of smoking your last cigarette you will gradually see and feel an improvement in your respiratory system.
Your risk of coronary heart disease will reduce to 50% compared to a person who smokes.
Your risk of having a stroke is reduced compared to that of a smoker after giving up for a period of 5 years.
After 10 years of smoking your last cigarette your risk of getting lung cancer is reduced by 50% compared to that of a person who smokes. Your risk of other forms of cancer also drops.
If you have quit smoking for 15 years or more your risk of heart disease will be the same as that of a non smoker.
You will be considerably more well off and be able to afford the little luxuries in life from the money you save by not buying cigarettes.