You must quit smoking if you wish to live
longer and healthier. Longevity has no room for a cigarette smoker. Cigarette
smoking is not a way of life for healthy living for longevity.
Cigarette smoking is the worst health
hazard in America
today. According to the Surgeon General of the United States , approximately
one-quarter-million of Americans die each year as a result of cigarette
smoking. If you wish to age healthily, quit smoking.
(1) Cigarette smoking is one of the three
major factors—the other two factors are high blood pressure and bad
cholesterol—contributing to heart attacks and strokes. A smoker is 10 times
more at risk than a non-smoker.
(2) Cigarette smoking is bad for the lungs,
resulting in emphysema, chronic lung disease, and chronic bronchitis. Cigarette
smoking is also implicated in cancers of the lungs, esophagus, stomach,
kidneys, pancreas, and bladder.
Understandably, it may be extremely
difficult to quit smoking. Many cigarette smokers have been led to believe that
cigarette smoking is just a "habit," not an addiction; they have the
illusion that it is just one of those "bad habits" in life.
Unfortunately, due to its mood-altering effects, cigarette smoking promotes
consistent and repetitive use, leading to tolerance, and subsequently the
cigarette addiction.
According to research, approximately 75 to
85 percent of the 50 million smokers in the United States would want to quit
smoking, but find it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to give
up smoking. That is because quitting always inevitably leads to many
undesirable withdrawal symptoms, including weight gain. If you are among one of
those struggling to fight the addiction, you should exert extra effort to quit
smoking.
Do not erroneously believe that
"filter cigarettes" are safer than regular ones. They are not!
Research studies have shown that smoking lower-nicotine cigarettes may result
in inhaling more deeply, taking longer puffs, and smoking longer to compensate
for the lower level of nicotine. Filter cigarette is as deadly as non-filter
cigarette.
So, if you are still a cigarette smoker,
you must quit smoking!
Stephen Lau
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2018 by Stephen Lau
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