STOP SMOKING

Bad habits grow unconsciously. My father regularly used to tell this quote in my childhood days. I remember these words when I see people who are smoking. They know the consequences of smoking but they are unable to stop because of addiction.

Almost everyone knows that smoking causes cancer, emphysema, and heart disease; that it can shorten your life by 10 years or more; and that the habit can cost a smoker thousands of dollars a year. So how come people are still lighting up? The answer, in a word, is addiction. Once You Start, It's Hard to Stop. Smoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains nicotine, which is highly addictive.

                                                     

Cigarettes contain more than 4,800 chemicals - 69 of these are known to                                                      cause cancer. 

Parents who smoke can create health problems for their children, including exacerbation of asthma, increased frequency of colds and/or ear infections and sudden infant death syndrome. 

The ingredients in cigarettes affect everything from the internal functioning of organs to the efficiency of the body's immune system. The effects of cigarette smoking are destructive and widespread.

highly addictive.

Smoking still remains one of the leading cause of preventable death. Smoking has the dubious distinction of affecting all the systems from head to foot. Smoking causes many diseases like

            High Blood Pressure

            Heart Disease

            Pulmonary Disease

            Vascular Diseases

            Stroke

            Laryngeal Polyps

            Impotence

            Wrinkling of Skin

            Mouth Disease

            Respiratory Infections

            Smoking and Ulcer                             

 Smoking causes delivery complications 

 Increases risk of pre-term delivery 

 Giving birth to low-birth weight baby

 Slows fetal growth 

 Smoking also increases risk of serious health problems to the newborn such as:  

 cerebral palsy

 mental retardation 

 learning disabilities

Effects of Smoking

Several studies have also shown that smoking leads to less stamina 

Interferes with the functions of thyroid 

Causes bone loss leading to bone fractures 

Accelerates the development of the macular degeneration 

Increases the chances of developing multiple sclerosis 

Predisposes to cervical dysplasia

Staying smoke free will give you a whole lot more of everything — more energy, better performance, better looks, more money in your pocket, and, in the long run, more life to live!