Give Up Smoking - An Introduction To Kill The Habit That's Killing You!

We’re Creatures of Habit...
 

“Form good habits…be a good person” is the universal motherly advice every one of us can recall when we scratch the realm of our memories. Tiny tots and youngsters are forever bound, protected and guided by their seniors and elderly in order to help them on to tread the path laid on time tested principles of honesty and good behavior. Yet sometimes unknowingly they take the forbidden route just to prove things for the heck of it.

 

Due to the extreme stress, strain and stretch of the competitive world around any person today is more susceptible to succumb to pressure and buckle under it. Here’s where the need for addiction in any form arises which however provides only temporary solace rather than erasing the real cause. We sometimes latch on to it and slowly get further and further suck into its false whirlpool leading us to lose our will power.

 

An addiction simply adheres itself to our self-belief eroding it gradually by digging into it. We just remain a shade of our previous selves hereby taking a short cut to a track that leads us to more acute physical and mental problems.
 

The Ugly Truth On Smoking
 

- Tobacco usage causes more than 430,000 adult deaths per year in the United States.

 

- Around 5 million under 18 years will die prematurely from smoking-related diseases.

 

- More than 4,000 chemicals have been identified in tobacco smoke of which at least 43 cause cancer in humans and animals

 

- Exposure to passive smoking, 3,000 nonsmokers die of lung cancer every year.

 

- 150,000 to 300,000 infants and children less than 18 months experience lower respiratory tract infections. Asthma and other respiratory conditions often are triggered or worsened by tobacco smoke.

 

- Smoking among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders varies between 18% to 40% (including 9% to 13% females)

 

- Tobacco use is linked with numerous adverse health outcomes, disability, and death across a spectrum, including heart disease, cancer, and chronic lung disease.