Cigarette Smoking Nutshelled

Here are some brief facts and notes about smoking and danger to others and why it is important to quit as soon as possible:

• It is a high importance to note that tobacco smoking poses threat not just to the smoker's health, but also his family members, coworkers and others who breathe the smoker's cigarette smoke, called secondhand smoke.
  
• Each year secondhand smoke is associated with as many as 300,000 cases of bronchitis and pneumonia among newborns to babies of eighteen months of age.
  
• Statistics say, if both parents smoke in the family, a teenager is more than twice as likely to smoke than a young person whose parents are both non-smokers. In households where only one parent smokes, young people are also more likely to start smoking.
  
• Pregnant women who smoke are more likely to bear infants whose weights are too low for good health of a child. If all women stop smoking during pregnancy, about four thousand newborns would not die each year.
  
• Secondhand smoke from a parent's cigarette increases a child's chances for middle ear problems, causes coughing and wheezing, and worsens asthma conditions.
  
• Remember, smoking is an addiction. Cigarette smoke contains nicotine, a drug that is addictive and can make it very hard, but not impossible, to quit.
  
• Actually, more than 400,000 death cases in the United States each year are from smoking-related diseases. Smoking greatly increases your risks for lung cancer and many other cancers.
  
• Ex-smokers have better health than current smokers. Ex-smokers have fewer days of illness, fewer health complaints, and less bronchitis and pneumonia than current smokers.
  
• Stopping smoking cuts the risk of lung cancer, many other cancers, heart disease, stroke, other lung diseases, and other respiratory illnesses.
  
• Stopping smoking makes a difference right away - you can taste and smell food better. This happens for men and women of all ages, even those who are older. It happens for healthy people as well as those who already have a disease or condition caused by smoking. Your breath smells better and your cough goes away. And the quality of your lifes improves significantly.
  
• Stopping smoking saves money. A pack-a-day smoker, who pays about two bucks per pack can, expect to save more than 700 bucks per year. It appears that the price of cigarettes will continue to rise in coming years, as will the financial rewards of quitting.
  

Some Indisputable Reasons To Stop Smoking Now

If you haven't had the real impulse and motivation to stop smoking yet even though you may have heard how bad smoking can be to your health, you may need some more sound reasons to try and quit this bad habit. Let's consider them, here they are:

Brain Damage

Yes, no matter how frightful it sounds, it's really so. As a matter of fact a part of the senior population that smokes tobacco can experience a swift decline in their mental powers than does those who don't smoke. People with the effects of Alzheimer's disease as well that smoke cigarettes will notice the faster decline of their mental abilities than those people with Alzheimer's that are not addicted to this habit. When you smoke, you are clogging your arterial blood vessels. In this case you are at increased risk of stroke and this can speed up mental decline. To put it straight, those who are habitual tobacco smokers risk damage to the brain and can speed up the onset of a variety of diseases.

Smoking and Erectile Disfunction in Men

You would never believe that the consequences of smoking would get you in the bedroom, but many investigations show that it can and often does. Many men that suffer from erectile disfunction are puzzled about the real reason. But it it may rest in the pack of cigarettes that you smoke. It is statistically proven that those men who smoke a pack of cigarettes a day or more have more than a fifteen percent chance of having trouble getting an erection than those men who didn't smoke cigarettes.

Smoking and Immune System

Anyone who smokes cigarettes is at a higher risk for developing lupus and other conditions that affect the autoimmune system. Conditions of the autoimmune system include damage to your tissue, pain as well as inflammation. If you stop smoking today, you can bring down this risk considerably.

Smoking and a Developing Baby

Though many moms waiting for a child are aware of the risks that may tell on their baby they still light up a cig. But don't you know that moms who smoke during their pregnancy almost double the risk of their children being a victim of sudden infant death syndrom. Though many cases of sudden infant death syndrom can be traced to bed sharing habits, many investigations showed it was a particular danger for the child if the mother smoked throughout her pregnancy.

Smoking, Snoring and Sleeping Disorders

Bear in mind, if you smoke you are probably having a hard time at night breathing, because smoking impacts on every aspect of your respiratory system. Often smokers are violent snorers. What's more, they can also experience episodes of sleep apnea. It happens when you stops breathing for a short period of time while at sleep. This results in tiredness, depression, lack of attention, fatigue the next day. Severe smoking leads to insomnia in many cases.

And you can get rid of these problems and more and never come back to them if you just stop smoking. Today is as good a day to begin a new life! So what are you waiting for?

My Counter-smoker's blog

Greetings, everybody! Whether you are a smoker or not I welcome you here. For the first time I'd like to say a few words about myself and my blog that you are reading now.

Well, my name is Sam Mitchel. I'm a confirmed follower of the natural way of living and an ardent abstainer and counter-smoker. That's why this weblog is called Counter-Smoker. Here I'm going to collect and post the most useful, original, and, probably, the most effective articles about fighting tobacco smoking. I hope not only smokers will benefit from my articles. I'm positively sure that people who don't smoke will never try it and those who were smokers once and quitted this bad habit will never get back to it again after reading my Counter-smoker's articles.

Anyways, I hope to see you soon here again. Any kind of feedback is more that welcome.

Sincerely yours,
Sam