Why should you quit smoking?

There are a handful of serious reasons to stop smoking, and maybe the most important is that your habit could kill someone else.

• Each year roughly fifty thousand people around the world will die from their exposure to second-hand smoke. It is also significant to note that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States discovered that male smokers will lose 13.2 years of life and females 14.5 years simply because of their smoking habit.
• The most well-known side effect of using tobacco products is the development of cancer that it often causes. There is not just a single form of this deadly disease connected to tobacco, and people can die from lung, mouth, larynx, throat, esophageal, kidney, pancreas, stomach and bladder cancers that result from their choice to continue smoking.
• Smoking also increases the heart rate and blood pressure and makes a smoker twice as likely to die from a heart attack as a non-smoker. In addition to this, smoking also causes blood vessel diseases such as peripheral vascular disease that narrows the vessels which carry blood to the limbs and the brain and can lead to everything from strokes to impotence in men.

Someone who stops smoking is going to see dramatic improvement in their health right away. Within one year after quitting the risk of heart disease is cut in half of that of a smoker, and within five years the chance of stroke is that of a non-smoker. This clearly points out that quitting is the healthiest option available.

What is it that makes smoking dangerous:

• The ingredient common in cigarette is nicotine which is three times more lethal than arsenic and is frequently used as a very effective pesticide.
• The inhalation process actually delivers nicotine immediately to the brain with every single puff taken.
• If the smoker takes only ten drags on each cigarette that will still translate to ten solid doses of nicotine in a five to ten minute time period.
• Nicotine delivered in this way heads straight to the “reward pathways” of the brain and provides this area with an increased level of dopamine.
• This produces a brief sense of euphoria – roughly ten seconds for any single drag on a cigarette.
• Because nicotine is also something that the human body can develop some resistance to, the average smoker is going to increase the number of cigarettes needed each day to continue to get the same results from their usage.
• Hence the reason that nicotine is both a deadly and remarkably addictive poison. Not only does nicotine have an impact on the brain however, it also constricts the arteries throughout the body, causes over exertion in the heart muscle, and can show effects on almost every bodily organ. It does all of this so covertly that few notice anything but the good sensations that the smoke has created in the reward centers of the brain.

How to quit smoking:

• The best way to begin the process of smoking cessation is to meet with a doctor to discuss all of the options. It is important to accept that you are probably addicted to nicotine and this is going to make the process somewhat difficult.
•  Most smokers don’t think that they are suffering from addiction, but nicotine is the primary component of the modern cigarette and it is one of the world’s most addictive substances.
• This means that you should consider the best replacement therapy for your needs. There are gums, patches, lozenges, sprays and inhalers that all work differently to supply the quitter with a small stream of nicotine throughout the day. The one you and your doctor choose is going to have to meet your lifestyle and your smoking habits.

Source:

http://www.smokingkills.com/article/the-right-way-to-quit-smoking/

aanirban.chowdhury-SCIT MBA(ITBM)2013-2015