Serious Reasons for Quitting Smoking

By this time, everyone knows the effects of smoking to one’s health, which are lung or oral cancer, heart disease, stroke, and its adverse effects that show for a while in a smoker, such as shortness of breath, dull, dry skin, flaky nails, and thinning hair, such that all these unfavorable effects on a smoker’s health are seriously telling the smoker to decide now and act quickly to stop smoking, as there are serious reasons why smokers should stop, aside from the health risks.

Save money

Cigarettes spending is an expensive habit and government will continue to hike their prices with the intention of discouraging people from smoking, therefore, weighing down the costs spent on cigarettes will actually help a smoker save more by a simple computation of how much money can be saved for a year of not smoking; for instance at $5 a pack a day, a smoker can accumulate as much as $1,825 over a year, such that each year that a smoker quits will multiply more savings from then on and more use of the money saved for a purposeful project.

Endangering others through smoking

With over forty known carcinogens out of inhaling cigarette smoke, this is the effect of second-hand smoke, smoke inhaled involuntarily from cigarette or tobacco being smoked by others, and many smokers are not fully aware of the danger that they are causing to others, that’s why most public areas have strict no smoking rules, which include smoking around other people outside the house; therefore, smokers should think seriously of other’s health and lives.

The signs of premature aging can be avoided

When one is a habitual smoker, a biochemical change can happen in the body where the skin tissue is deprived of oxygen when the blood vessels are constricted, as a result, the flow of blood to the skin decreases, causing the skin to dry out and wrinkle, this effect is one of the biggest problems faced by smokers, like experiencing changes in their skin such as wrinkles and fine lines, dry, leathery skin, which is actually the effect of premature aging; therefore, revive the youthful skin back by quitting smoking.

Avoid smelling like an ashtray

The smell of an ashtray is exactly the smell that a smoker has and which cannot be hidden as it can be smelled everywhere from the smoker’s hair, clothes, immediate surroundings, smell of the hand to the smell of smoker’s breath, and what is worse is that, unknowingly, smokers are not aware that people avoid them because of the smell; therefore, a smoker should seriously consider to quit smoking and enjoy fresh air again in the company of his/her friends.

Have whiter teeth

Smoking results into tainted, yellowish teeth, caused by the effect of tobacco eroding the enamel of the teeth and, later, causing tooth decay or if not periodontal disease, which weakens the gums and loosens the teeth; therefore, a smoker should quit smoking first and, next, visit a dental hygienist to put back the pearly white color of his/her teeth.