Smoking and Stop Smoking Facts

Smoking is filthy habit that affects health of a person addicted to smoking and imposes lots of other risks on social life of a smoker. If we look back into our past, we will see fewer people were addicted to smoking but it is a dreadful fact that number of people who smoke is increasing day by day. Different research programs have shown that lots of children start smoking every day. Let’s leave “why people smoke” to be discussed on some other day and focus on some facts of habit of smoking and stop smoking. A very painful reality of our society is that around 3000 children smoke their first cigarette every passing day. Few years before, number of people who used to smoke was very low as compared to today. Today I will share interesting smoking facts and some information about quitting smoking:

Social Facts of Smoking

Social life of a person who smokes is badly affected. First of all his confidence starts to lose when he becomes addicted to smoking. His position in society is also affected by this habit. He is prohibited from so many places like gyms, hotels, museums, hospitals etc just because smoking is not allowed on these places. It is the social gathering where a smoker is prohibited on the other hand again it is social gathering that promotes urge for tobacco smoking. There is need to make people known of bad effects of smoking and this teaching should be more common in schools and colleges.  It has been calculated that 2% of high school students are routine smokers and this rate is increasing rapidly. Some research programs show that 3900 students between the ages of 12 to 17 years try their first cigarette each day and 25% of these students become habitual of smoking.

Medical Facts of Smoking

Smoking affects health of smokers and people who are exposed to second hand smoke adversely. Inhalation of cigarette smoke can cause lungs cancer, throat cancer, emphysema, strokes and heart diseases. Complexity of these diseases becomes more and more with continuous consumption of tobacco smoke and become major cause of deaths with heart attacks, high blood pressure and cancer. Cigarette smoke not only destroys health of person who have cigarette in his hands but many deaths are recorded due to illnesses caused by secondhand smoke. Round about 3400 deaths recorded by lungs cancer are caused by secondhand smoke. There is immense need to control this habit of smoking and encourage people for quitting smoking to reduce this increasing number of deaths by smoking.

Facts of Quitting Smoking

Once a person quits smoking habit will give up risks of heart attack within ten years after quitting. People who quit this habit will have only one-half of the risk of dying in next 15 years as compared to routine smokers. Quitting this habit will reduce risk of cancer substantially as compared to continuous smoking. People who don’t smoke should work to promote knowledge of smoking cessation programs and encourage smokers for quitting smoking.