Smoking is hazardous for your health and contributes to the development of many chronic diseases such as lung cancer and throat cancer. Moreover, you can not escape the clutch of smoking, if you are addicted to it at large. Smoking harms every organ of the body and the sooner you quit, the sooner you can reap the health rewards and other advantages of being a non-smoker.
Here’s a list of ten reasons to stop smoking:
1- Smoking reduces Immunity:
Research suggests smoking increases your chances of picking common disease hence it is sometimes referred to as glue for the disease. Smoking lessens the Immune response. It depresses the antibody cells that are supposed to help fight pathogens( Disease-causing agents).
2-Quit smoking and save money:
Apart from having the hazardous effect of your health smoking is also heavy on your pocket. If a person smokes one pack a day one pack costs 20 dollars (Price keeps increasing). After one year he has spent 7,300 dollars! Keeping the same number in mind 20 years of smoking costs 146,000!
3-Smoking makes you look older:
Smoking is surefire that makes you look older and haggard. Smoking deprives the skin of oxygen and nutrients resulting in uneven skin tone and wrinkles. Quitting smoking can enhance your appearance. As blood flow gets better with time, your skin receives more nutrients and oxygen. This can help you to have a youthful look and healthier complexion.
4-Number one cause of Lung cancer:
Smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer across the globe. Lung cancer claims more lives each year than prostate, ovarian, colon, and breast cancers combined. Smoking causes the majority of lung cancers, both in smokers and in people who are exposed to secondhand smoke in the contaminated environment.
Consider watching this video to know what happens after you stop smoking.
5-Smoking may lead to blindness:
Research suggests that smoking increases the risk of developing Uveitis: inflammation in uvea(eyes middle layer), Cataracts: clouding in the lens of the eye and Glaucoma: damage in eyes optic nerve that may lead to permanent blindness.
6-Smoking has hazardous effects on Fertility:
In men smoking damages sperm, reducing its ability to fertilize an egg. Smoking causes accumulation of plaque in arteries, resulting in obstruction of blood flow which may lead to erectile dysfunction. In women, smoking fastens the rate of loss of fertile eggs. Apart from that smoking increases the chances of developing prostate and ovarian cancer, pregnancy complications such as ectopic pregnancy; a condition in which the embryo attaches outside the uterus.
7-Smoking severely affects family life:
Smoking exposes your spouse, children, and even pets to secondhand smoke, It increases their risk of developing breathing complications. Research findings suggest that children who grow up watching their parents smoke are more likely to smoke when they grow up.
8- Smoking increases the risk of developing Dementia:
Smoking can boost your risk of dementia(loss of memory). It’s not necessary that everyone who smokes will get dementia, but quitting smoking is thought to reduce your risk down to the level of non-smokers.
9-Smoking disrupts the sleep cycle:
According to research conducted in 2011, people who smoke are 2.5 times more likely to also suffer from sleep apnea( interruption of breathing during sleep). Cigarette smokers are more prone to insomnia if they smoke regularly and close to bedtime.
10-Smoking slows wound healing:
Nicotine acts vasoconstrictor that decreases nutritional blood flow to the skin, resulting in impaired healing of injured tissue. Smokers suffer from greater post-surgery complications as compared to nonsmokers.
Smoking is like a slow poison, it slowly eats up all your body. Quit smoking before it’s too late!
Until Next Time,
Team Doctor ASKY!