How to Quit Smoking Now - [Article]

Research found that smoking-related death occurs everywhere in the world for about every 8 seconds, every year. As soon as we remove the blinders and look very carefully about nicotine addiction and the damage that it can cause, the sooner we can pull away from dangerous effects and be safe. Health Alert do provides us with in depth look at such topics about health and medicine in current time. 

 

 

Many people that are currently using tobacco or smoking products, joined the millions of smokers who participated in the American Cancer Society's annual Great American Smoke-out program, just simply by agreeing to stop smoking for a 24-hour period of time. This is an event wherein the people who joined the single event were transformed into a "former smoker" and now they are lead to the way to a healthier lifestyle for the twenty-first century. The consequences of using tobacco are the following. 

 

 

You will have a greater chance of getting lung cancer, 10 times greater than a nonsmoker. You have a greater chance of having heart attack, twice than non-smokers do. Cigarette smokers have a chance of being linked with emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Tobacco or smoke contains almost 4,000 chemicals in it. Many of these chemicals are poisonous and almost 40 of them are linked to cancer. 

 

 

Smoking pregnant women have their increased risk of having a low birth weight infant or stillborn baby. Cigarette smoke is more harmful and very bad to people who inhale it, especially those who does not smoke. Children living in a house with smokers are twice as likely to pick up and imitate the habit when they grow up. 

 

In quitting the smoking habit you must develop a plan to take control of your addiction. Pick a day when to stop smoking. You can do it every November, during the Great American Smoke-out, there are millions of other Americans will stop smoking too that will also inspire you. Tell some one in your family and also your friends about your plan so that they can remind you time to time. Because you will also need their encouragement when you feel the urge in smoking again. Quitting smoking is not that hard it is just your discipline that will help you more.