SMOKING IS THE LARGEST PREVENTABLE CAUSE OF DEATH -

SMOKING IS THE LARGEST PREVENTABLE CAUSE OF DEATH - by Aanchal P Achipalya- Fitness Guru

Smoking just doesn't harm your body but it also plays mind games with you and kills your soul by affecting your beauty, diet and sleep patterns and complicating the ways you handle stress. This is how lighting up that all consuming cigarette ruins your life:

1. Reduces life expectancy
Smoking reduces life expectancy by 7 - 8 years. This means, every time you smoke, your life expectancy is shortened by 8 minutes.

2. Causes head to toe cancer
Almost all cancers are more likely to affect a smoker than a non-smoker. Smoking regularly makes you a favourable victim for the cancer of the mouth, stomach, lungs, kidneys, cervix, esophagus, larynx, rectum, colon and certain other organs.

3. Impairs your circulatory system
Smoking weakens the heart and the circulatory system so much that many smokers are left wishing for death. Such is the impact of smoking that certain smokers may find it difficult to even walk two steps.

4. Does not let an offspring develop
Smoking affects reproductive abilities, leaving many smokers childless forever. It can make men impotent and cause infertility in women and even lead to miscarriages.

5. Ruins your beauty
Your skin suffers a great deal on account of smoking. Smoking can be responsible for wrinkles on your face and yellowing and staining of your teeth and fingers. Also, it hurries the process of skin ageing.

6. Kills hunger
Smoking can destroy your appetite and also your sense of taste and smell.

7. Gifts you many a sleepless nights
Smoking regularly can make a person insomniac, in turn weakening their over all immune system and wrecking havoc on their health.

If this isn't enough for you to quit smoking, nothing will be. And if you do want to quit smoking, here are some tips to help you walk the tight rope:

- Drink plenty of fluids throughout the day to cleanse your body and to provide it with antioxidants to reduce the free radical irritation.
- Munch on carrot, cucumber, radish and other raw vegetables as oral substitutes to deal with psychological ties to smoking.
- Develop and maintain a positive attitude towards life and stay busy to keep your mind off smoking.
- Get another smoker to stop smoking with you so that you can discuss common problems and get each other's support.
- Exercise, it is one of the healthiest addictions you can develop, which in turn helps you get over other addictions.


Have a nice day,


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