Reasons to Stop Smoking

1. Damages your skin

2. Damages your lungs

3. Damages your teeth

4. Causes various cancers including lung, oral, abdomen, kidney, bladder, and colon

5. Damages your heart

6. Damages your bones

7. Can cause infertility

8. More likely to get colds, flu, bronchitis, pneumonia, and asthma

9. Pregnant women who smoke harm their unborn baby

There are more, but you get the idea. Smoking harms your entire body and hurts those who breath in the second hand smoke. These are all very good reasons to stop smoking.

1. Easier to breath, don't get out of breath so easily

2. Better chance of living a long life

3. Smell better

4. Food tastes better

5. Less likely to die of heart attack or cancer

6. Babies born to smokers are more likely to suffer health problems

7. Save your money instead of giving it to tobacco companies

There are many more benefits you will experience such as no longer having to find a place to smoke while at work or when visiting a friend, being a good example to your children, and the psychological rewards of quitting a bad habit.

There are so many benefits if you stop smoking, and so many negatives to continue smoking, it seems like a no brainer.

1. About 20 minutes after your last cigarette your blood pressure drops down to normal
2. About 8 hours after your last smoke the carbon monoxide level in your lungs decreases to half what it was and the oxygen level increases to a normal level
3. After about 48 hours your chances of having a heart attack have decreased, the nicotine has been flushed from your body, and your sense of taste and smell should be returning to normal
4. About 72 hours after your last cigarette your bronchial tubes, formerly constricted by the poisonous fumes of the tobacco, have now relaxed and your energy level has increased
5. After the first 2 weeks your circulation will improve, continuing to improve over the next ten weeks
6. Within 10 years your lungs will have healed and your chances of getting lung cancer will be the same as a non-smoker

Lots of people smoke to deal with stress. They might have started smoking for other reasons, but they continue to smoke because it helps them relax.

When they try to stop smoking, their stress is elevated, which makes it even harder to quit.

If you smoke to deal with stress, you need to learn how to view situations not as stressful but as regular, every day occurrances. As you successfully work through problems that arise you will learn that problems do not cause stress but it's how you see the problem.

If you see the problem as something you can overcome, then your stress level goes down and it will be easier to stop smoking.