Stop Smoking Now

Smoking is not only adverse for health of person addicted to smoking but it also destroys health of people who are exposed to second hand smoke. An interesting fact I have seen in people addicted to smoking is that they feel smoking helps them in relaxing them from stress, anxiety, restlessness, loneliness and boredom and they feel their life as boredom and aggravation without cigarette. Some people also think that they will gain weight after they stop smoking. Some people smoke to celebrate special occasions.

People who smoke may feel comfort while smoking but in fact they expose their health to open threats for their health and life. I have never seen a person who smokes and lives healthier but lost of research programs show that more than 33,000,000 people addicted to smoking have given up their habit of smoking and are leading healthy lives. Well I would like to say that a non-smoker can never imagine benefits of quitting smoking but ex-smokers have lots of stories regarding benefits of quitting smoking. Although ex-smokers have gone through painful withdrawal of smoking but now they live healthier lives. Quitting smoking is not so easy but I want to share some tips to give up this habit. You will find these tips helpful enough in stop smoking now or helping your smoker friend to quit this habit:

• First of all make your mind ready to quit smoking and set a quitting date. Highlight the date on your calendar and stick to it. Remember you will become an ex-smoker on this day.
• Quitting this habit is not so easy so ask your friends and family members for your moral support. Ask them to keep an eye on you and stop you from sneaking out to buy cigarettes.
• Smokers want to have cigarette in their free time so you are advised to plan to keep you busy all time. Look for some exercise to keep your mind and head busy.
• Remove cigarettes from your pocket, home, office and car.
• Make your mind that you are saving money by quitting this habit that will be used in beneficial activities. Collect money for purchasing what you have always wanted to.
• Change your way because the shop from where you buy cigarette will create an urge in you to buy again and it will become difficult for you to overcome cravings.

Remember that no other person will quit for you and bear cravings. It is only you who can do something for you and your family but support of people around you can help you to stick to your quitting decision. Keep your desire and determination to become ex-smoker and move towards success with confidence. If you are trying to help your smoker friend, then follow these stop smoking tips to help your friend.

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.