Facts Of Smoking

Smoking And You

Here are some important statistics to consider as reasons for quitting smoking.

By quitting smoking you'll reduce your chances of getting the following cancers:

• Kidney
• Bladder
• Cervix
• Lung
• Larynx
• Esophagus
• Pancreas
• Mouth
• Stomach
• Leukemia

Smoking causes about 440,000 deaths each year. Of those

• 159,600 are caused by cancer
• 142,600 are caused by heart disease

What you may not know is that a whopping 40,000 plus deaths caused by cigarette smoking are second-hand effects, that is they do not happen to the smoker, but to those around the smoker.

Smoking And Others

The facts of smoking are that the harm from your smoking is not limited to you.

There are almost 1,000 deaths each year caused by house fires started by smoking. Almost 1,000 infants each year die from second-hand smoking causes.

It's estimated that 38,000 people die each year from cancer and heart disease caused by second-hand smoke.

You can find this and more information at the following website: www.smokefree.gov.

So What?

Of course, we always think the bad things are going to happen to others, not to us. So, despite the odds we keep smoking. Look, it's easier to fool yourself than to take the kind of action required to quit smoking.

But what you need to do is to quit!

The facts of smoking are that on the average a man will reduce his life expectancy by 5 years, if he's a regular smoker. For a woman, it's three years.

What you need is a way to quit that works for you.

There are several paths to choose. You can try nicotine replacement, cold-turkey, hypnosis, laser treatment, or drugs such as Chantix. There are dozens of books written about quitting smoking. Joining a groups is a good idea.

I've written a book detailing my father's remarkable method for quitting smoking, called The Harold Cole Method.

What's great about Dad's method is it almost completely avoids those awful withdrawal symptoms.

Whatever you do, do something! You owe it to yourself and to your loved ones.