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Reasons to Stop Smoking

There are many reasons why people want to stop smoking. They include:

* Better health
* Reduced risk of cancer, heart disease and bronchial problems
* Having more energy
* Breathing easier
* Smelling better
* To save money
* It?s unsociable to smoke

You probably already know this. But did you know:

* Smoking kills more than 114,000 people in the UK every year.
* Most smokers die from one of the three main diseases associated with cigarette smoking: lung cancer, chronic obstructive lung disease (bronchitis and emphysema) and coronary heart disease.
* Tobacco smoke contains many chemical compounds including carbon monoxide, arsenic, formaldehyde, cyanide, benzene, toluene and acrolein.
* One in two long-term smokers will die prematurely as a result of smoking ? a quarter of these in middle age.
* Deaths caused by smoking are five times higher than the 22,833 deaths arising from: road traffic accidents (3,439), other accidents (8,579), poisoning and overdose (881), alcoholic liver disease (5,121), murder and manslaughter (513), suicide (4,066), and HIV infection (234) in the UK during 2002.
* A smoker?s life span is shortened by about five minutes for each cigarette smoked. On average, those killed by smoking have lost 10-15 years of life and thats just the uk.

The Benefits of Stopping Smoking

* After just 20 minutes your blood pressure and pulse return to normal
* After eight hours levels of nicotine and carbon monoxide in your system will be halved
* After one day your carbon monoxide level will be at non-smokers' levels
* After 2 days there is no nicotine left in the body
* After three days your breathing becomes easier as the bronchial tubes begin to relax
* In the long term, stopping smoking reduces the risk of lung and other cancers, heart attack, stroke and chronic lung disease. After 5 to 15 years the level of risk returns to that of a non-smoker.
There is also the smell aspect and the smoke would you put your mouth to a car exhaust no you wouldnt so it's mytimetoquit

As a smoker for twenty years i know how hard it is to quit! but it can be myturntoquit! and give your lungs a well deserved break

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