Benefits of Giving Up Smoking

StopSmokingCoach — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:01:50 +0000

There are many benefits to giving up smoking. The human body is incredibly resilient and it can heal from many years of damages caused by such activities as smoking cigarettes. There are many information sources out there on and offline about the health benefits on giving up smoking. These sources include government run websites, personal blogs, and corporations that sell quit smoking aids. Unfortunately, while most of them are fine source of learning the health benefits to giving up smoking, they fail to describe the benefits that an average Joe can truly relate to. So without the complicated graphs and medical mumbo jumbo, let’s discuss about the practical benefits to giving up smoking.

The first thing you notice about most smokers is their inability to enjoy an active life. I can attest to this as a former smoker myself. It is a common knowledge that smoking cigarettes diminish the lung capacity.

First and foremost, you can say goodbye to just about every sports activity you’ve enjoyed over the years once you start smoking. An active lifestyle creates an energetic person and is not the other way around. If you haven’t been smoking for long, you may think this does not apply to you, but you truly feel the effect of smoking after a full year or two of smoking cigarettes.

Your social life, the relationships with your friends, family, and colleagues, they all change overtime due to your smoking habit. At first you smoke because it makes you feel good, then because you need to, and finally, you smoke because you are completely addicted to cigarettes. The places you can be, the things you can do, and the people you meet get limited because of your addiction.

One aspect of your life that gets hit hard when you start smoking is the romance in your life. If you had a girlfriend, boyfriend, or spouse before you started smoking, then you know firsthand smoking is a big issue with them.

If you are hoping to date someone new and you’ve picked up a smoking habit as well, you’d be surprised to learn that some surveys show that over 90 percent of non-smoking singles won’t even entertain the idea of dating a smoker. You’ve just reduced your dating pool to about 20 percent of the population.

There’s also the benefit of possibly saving a large sum of money. There was the largest hike for taxes on cigarettes in 2009 and the last time I checked, there was a plan to increase the tax by another $1.49 which would be a record hike. This means that in areas that cigarettes are the most expensive, such as New York, you would be paying as much as $10 per pack. But even if you live in an area that for a long time retained a low cigarette price, you would still be paying in the upwards of $6 per pack.

The latest figure I’ve seen suggest that an average smoker smokes one pack a day. This means that an average smoker can save nearly $4000 a year. Can you use an extra 4 grand? I know most of us could and just imagine how much interest your money would have accrued in a period of 10 years had you put your money in a C/D account.

Lastly, do you dread the feeling of being left with just enough cigarettes to survive the evening until your bed time? I know the feeling of wanting that insurance, that extra pack that assures you that you will not run out of cigarettes until you sleep, and that you will have a pack waiting for you as you wake up in the morning. So won’t you run out at 1am in the morning to the nearest 24hr convenient shop for your fix? Whether you would like to admit it or not, you’ve become a junkie.

The benefits of giving up smoking are in the dramatic improvements in the quality of life. Your smoking habit touches so many aspects of your life, that once you quit, you’ll notice the positive changes take place in parts of your life that you never imagined would have been affected by your habit. Stop smoking today and I promise you the benefits to kicking the habit will not let you down.

Benefits of quitting smoking

StopSmokingCoach — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:48:21 +0000

If quitting smoking ever crossed your mind, you might have wondered about the benefits to quit smoking. Unfortunately, too often smokers think they’ve done too much damage to ever recover fully. The thought couldn’t be further from the truth and inflicting more damage to your body could never be the solution.

The fact is, you are alive only because your body is busy recovering as soon as you put your cigarette out. If the damage was permanent and your body never recovered, it should not take a genius to figure out that all smokers should be dead not long after picking up smoking habits. Your body keeps you alive even as you pump in so many toxins hour after hour, cigarette after cigarette. Now imagine you completely stop the cycle. You stop smoking and your body can continually heal itself without being overwhelmed by toxins from the smokes you otherwise would have inhaled. It’s quite simple, if you break damaging part of the cycle. Only the recovery part of the cycle remains and that is the biggest benefit of quitting smoking.

Smoking increases blood pressure. But blood pressure rapidly decreases as soon as you put out that cigarette. When you quit smoking, your blood pressure will decrease to your normal state. Naturally this will also lessen the chances of heart attack. You will also reduce the risk of coronary heart disease as oxygen level in blood increases to normal state.

Stay cigarette-free for several years and the risks for developing cancer will decrease. Those include lung cancer, pancreas, throat, larynx, bladder, kidney, and mouth. Eventually your body will make complete recovery.

For many long time smokers, aforementioned benefits of quitting smoking might not be enough to lure them into cigarette-free life. Maybe you need benefits that are more trivial but ones that touch you and those around you in a more personal manner. Well, remember the last few family gatherings? Have you ever been scolded by the children how stinky you were? Adults are generally politically correct and they normally will not point out to how much you reek of cigarette smoke. Children are different story though. If you are stinky, they’ll let you hear about it. If you haven’t noticed, your cousins and or your siblings cringe when you kiss their children. The last thing they want is that sewer you call a mouth making contact with their children’s cheek. Your girl friend or boy friend, they only put up with you because they love you. Truth be told, the smell of organic matter decomposing might be the only thing that smells worse than your breath. Trust me, I know, I was once a smoker as well. Your house, car, clothes, and everything that you touch have that distinctive disgusting smell.

It’s quite easy to list the benefits to quitting smoking and that’s because there is no downside to counter argue. Also, the physiological benefits of quitting smoking are too many and too important to ignore. But ultimately quitting smoking will benefit you in so many small yet meaningful ways, that it’s impossible to list them all. Free yourself from the negative cycle, you can gain so much by giving up just one thing, “cigarettes”.

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