Time To Commit To Stop Smoking
March 27th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
If you’re a smoker, then you’ve probably considered quitting cigarettes in order to bring health benefits. But when is the best time to commit to stop smoking? Many wait for a special occasion, for the end of a stressful time in their lives, or for a New Year’s resolution to commit to stop smoking, but the fact is, the best time is always as soon as possible, not some point in the future. If you stop smoking, you will find a constant regaining of health benefits over a period of weeks, months and years. Here are a few of the benefits that will come to you if you commit to stop smoking:
Short Term Benefits
A lot of the most noticeable benefits come in the first year after you commit to stop smoking, and some will even be noticeable after hours or days. Within the first 24 hours after you quit smoking, you’ll find that your heart rate and blood pressure, as well as carbon monoxide levels in your blood, will drop. If you have a problem with high blood pressure, it’s hard to beat an immediate benefit like that!
Over the next few months, you’ll find that a lot of damaged systems in the body will start functioning better than before. Your smell and taste will return, which makes eating more pleasurable, and your lungs will be able to work better, both for taking in air and in keeping those lungs clean of harmful materials, which in turn will mean less infections. This is because once you commit to stop smoking, tiny little hairs in your lungs called cilia, which catch dust and other foreign materials, start to work like they’re supposed to.
Long Term Benefits
The big, lifesaving benefits that come when you commit to stop smoking are not as noticeable, since they prevent major health problems, but they have been well documented. In the years after you stop smoking, you will benefit from a reduction in the risk of coronary heart disease, most dramatic after the first year and over a period of more than a decade, steadily declining. You will also have a reduced chance of suffering a stroke and of several kinds of cancer. And while being able to smell your food better is a great benefit of not smoking, reducing the chance of suffering from deadly diseases is a more poignant reason to quit. So commit to stop smoking today and enjoy both the benefits that will come to you soon and the ones that will improve your life for years to come.
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Why We CAN Stop Smoking Cigarettes – And It’s Easier Than We Think
February 19th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
Smoking has been noted as being one of the worst habits to affect the physical health of people today. It is a habit that due to its’ social acceptance and “cool” image over time, has been one that has been quick to be taken up in society, and one that is hard to get rid of. It is one of the main factors that contribute to the lifestyle diseases commonly affecting the population today such as cancer and stroke. And the worst part is that the suffering and deaths as a result of smoking is needless. However, the good news is that we all have the decision to either stop smoking cigarettes, or to not start the habit in the first place – it just comes down to choice.
Why People Smoke
People smoke for a number of different reasons however most tend to stem from stress, social trends or social acceptance, and lack of education. Some people begin their smoking habit as teenagers during a rebellious stage or to “fit in” with their peers, whereas others may take it up as adults for similar reasons or due to social acceptance and to help deal with stress. Smoking is a well known stress-reliever which is also highly addictive, making it a hard habit to kick. But although difficult, this does not make stopping smoking cigarettes impossible to do - just a little challenging.
Prevention: Better Than Cure
In order to stop smoking cigarettes, one needs to make a firm decision and a game plan of how and why they are going to quit on order to do so successfully. And because quitting can be such a difficult thing to do, prevention of others taking up smoking is often better than cure. Society today has done an excellent job of making people aware of the dangers of smoking, which has not necessarily been the case in past years.
Today, television ads, magazines and cigarette packets now come branded with graphic pictures of the result of smoking as well as warnings of what cigarettes contain, and what detrimental effect these substances may have on the body. These look to be working, with statistics indicating that less and less people, particularly of the younger generations, are taking up the habit. However in order for this to continue, people need to be constantly reminded of the effects of smoking, which will in encourage those who do light up to stop smoking cigarettes once and for all.
For those who are looking to quit, they need to remember that the most difficult part is starting. Io order for people to stop smoking cigarettes, they need to be aware of the difficulties that they are going to face so that they can prepare themselves for these times. To get through this, there are a number of products and services on the market to help reduce the cravings and enable people to stay-smoke free, however before these can come into play; people need to make the choice to quit themselves. Things like nicotine patches, gum, pills and help-lines are there for support, and to support only. These things may help you to stop smoking cigarettes, but inevitably, it will come down to what you want to do.
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