Benefits of quitting smoking
When you stop smoking you gain some benefits at once. And even more of them will develop over time. These rewards will improve your everyday life a great deal.
- your breath smells better
- your teeth get whiter
- no more smoke smelling clothes and hair
- yellow fingers and fingernails disappear
- food tastes better
- the sense of smell returns to normal
- climbing stairs or housework no longer leave you out of breath.
Cost
A better health is a main reason for quitting, but still there are some other reasons.
Smoking is an expensive habit. If you want to figure out how much you spend on smoking, just multiply the amount of money you spend on cigarettes every day by 365 (days per year). The sum may surprise you. If you multiply that by the number of years you have been smoking - the amount may shock you.
It is useful to multiply the cost for smoking per year by 10 for the upcoming 10 years. When you get an amount - ask yourself what you would do with that much money instead of destroying your body.
This covers only cigarettes cost but no other possible costs, such as higher life and health insurance rates, and likely health care costs due to tobacco-related problems.
Social Acceptance
No doubt, smoking is less socially acceptable now than it was in the past.
Nowadays most of the workplaces have their own smoking rules. There are employers who prefer to hire non-smokers. A lot of public places such as concerts and even sporting events are largely smoke-free. Even your friends may ask you not to smoke in their homes or cars. Sometimes it can be not easy to find a place to smoke.
Health of people around you
Smoking hurts the health of people around you. Passive smoking is the reason of thousands of deaths each year from lung cancer and heart disease in healthy non-smokers.
If a mother smokes, there is a higher risk of her baby developing asthma in childhood, especially if she smoked while she was pregnant. Smoking is also linked to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and low-birth weight infants. Babies and children raised in a household where there is smoking have more ear infections, colds, bronchitis, and other lung and breathing problems than children from non-smoking families. Passive smoking can also cause eye irritation, headaches, nausea, and dizziness.
Setting an Example
If you have children, you probably want to set a good example for them. When asked, nearly all smokers say they don't want their children to smoke, but children whose parents smoke are more likely to start smoking themselves. Choose better future for your children by by quitting now.
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