Need Of Quit Smoking

Smoking is a hazard to your health; you know this as a general statement because its one piece of advice that's featured on the cigarette box itself. But still many people continue to take up smoking. When cigarettes first came into the public domain, the dangers of tobacco were not well known, or well researched. But as time passed, medical science began looking into what was becoming an addiction. Steady and persistent research began to reveal the killing effects of smoking, and now cigarette manufacturers are legally bound to display the truth of smoking towards health on the very box.

The most vulnerable segment of society that can fall prey to the habit of smoking is the students from high school and up wards. This relatively big market segment and many industries offer one product or the other to it. That's all fine, but when it comes to cigarettes and smoking, the youth are simply set up for disaster. For many smoking is all about looking ‘cool' and ‘fitting in'. Awareness programs in educational institutes have always been active, but peer pressure has proven to be a force to reckon with. As part of an effort to help all smokers make the decision to quit their tobacco, this article will take a detailed look at all the hazards that smoking poses to the smoker.



For starters, smoking causes lung cancer. While you smoke, tar from the cigarettes coats the inner lining of the lungs. This makes absorption of oxygen by the lungs incredibly difficult. You can witness this personally if you ever hear a smoker and non-smoker cough. The smoker's cough tends to rattle with the sound of unhealthy, weighed down lungs. A non-smoker will have a loud, strong cough, evidence of healthy and clear lungs. Every organ of the body needs oxygen to function properly and that oxygen comes in the form of oxygenated blood passing through the lungs. A smoker's blood is low on oxygen and therefore their organs receive less than required oxygen. The result is that smoker's vital organs suffer. Among these is the brain, research is now proving that smoking leads to bad memory and dangerous levels of forgetfulness. The strain put on a smoker's body die to this oxygen deficit can lead to Emphysema, a disease that will slowly rot the lungs and cause a slow death. The Emphysema may cause chronic bronchitis and the strain can lead to heart and lung failure.

Mothers who smoke bear children with less than average weights. As these children grow up in households with smoking parents, they are in great danger of asthma from the second hand smoke. Many are born with the disease.

Smoking also causes heart diseases; in fact one in every death due to heart failure is the direct result of smoking. Among the youth this ratio is alarmingly higher; it's three out of four. Smoking causes fat to build up in the arteries and veins. The blood vessels become narrow and the heart cannot have its needed supply of oxygen, the result is you suffer a stroke. In more aggravated conditions, this is the main cause behind heart failure.

It's sufficient to say that in light of the above health and life hazards posed as a direct result of smoking, you have every rational reason in the world to quit. Do yourself and those who love a great favor and start the journey today.

• John Palsson
• 25/11/2008, 8:59 PM
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