Smoking Facts

Understanding a few smoking facts can greatly increase your likelihood of quitting and staying quit. Facts also give you the ammunition you might need to convince a friend or loved one to quit.

Read on for more information about the cost of smoking, smoking's effects on your health, and the effects of second hand smoke.

If you are into numbers, then this article about smoking statistics will be of interest to you. For even more information take a look at these websites.

Cost of Smoking

The first fact you might want to consider is how much does smoking actually cost you in dollars. You would be surprised.

Usually, when you think about smoking related facts, you think about health issues and the effects of smoking on your body. And, of course, you would be right.

Effects of Smoking

Perhaps the most important fact about smoking is that it dramatically increases your chances of getting various cancers and heart disease . Not to mention other types of illnesses.

Smoking dramatically increases your chances of getting cancer. It’s not just lung cancer you need to worry about, either. An enormous percentage of esophageal cancer is cause by smoking or by smokeless tobacco products.

In addition to cancer, you have diseases like emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to be concerned about.

Not only that, but if you’re diabetic, you need to understand the relationship between smoking and diabetes.

Smoking greatly increases the likelihood and severity of heart disease in both men and women.

There are other harmful effects of smoking, which you can get information on here. Something you should know about is the relationship between smoking and stress.

On the other side of the coin, a lot of smokers worry about weight gain when they quit. Read this article about how to quit smoking and lose weight, for more information. You don’t have to choose between the two, being a thin smoker or an overweight ex-smoker. But if you did, becoming and ex-smoker would the by far the healthier choice.

Secondhand Smoke

I’m not trying to send you on a guilt trip, here. If you really want to stay a smoker, feel free--it is your life, after all.

Before you make that decision, though, you might want to consider a few things about second hand smoke.

For one thing, smoking and children just do not mix. Smoking and pregnancy are a very bad combination for the unborn child potentially causing many health issues. Of particular concern is breastfeeding and smoking.

But enough of the negative. Let’s take a look at how quitting smoking benefits you.

Benefits of Quitting

Any discussion of smoking facts would not be complete without mentioning the benefits you get from quitting.

The benefits of quitting smoking are huge.

Your body is truly amazing in how fast it starts to heal itself even just hours after you quit. Within only a few days you will greatly reduce your chances of disease, but you will feel so much better!

There are two other areas of concern I want to touch on. Teenage smoking and women and smoking

Teenage Smoking

If you are like most folks, you started smoking when you were a teen. Teenagers have trouble coming to grips with long-term consequences of their actions. You can read more about teenage smoking here.

Women and Smoking

Heart disease among women has been on the rise. Smoking is partly to blame. Learn more about women and smoking by reading this informative article.

Conclusion

Of course, all the facts about smoking in the world are not going to help if you don't have the motivation to quit. Sure, smoking costs you thousands of dollars, has a huge negative effect on your health, not to mention what second hand smoke does to your loved ones. At some point, though, you have to decide to quit. Unfortunately, no one can do that for you.

I can’t tell you how many people ask me if it is too late to quit smoking. Of course, it is not too late. It sounds hokey, but it’s actually true that the rest of your life starts today. Learn all you can about smoking and what it does to you, then pick a way to quit and at least try.

Whatever you do, do not give up! Most people who quit have to try several times. Surely that’s not too much effort to get your health back!

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