Today is World No Tobacco Day. Whatever reason has pushed you towards smoking, Today is the day to quit smoking. Choose health, choose life, and be smoke-free.
Smoking kills more than 80 lakhs people every year across the globe.
According to the WHO
Smoking damages your airways and alveoli found in your lungs further causing lung disease. Tobacco smoking causes most cases of lung cancer.
Smoking weakens your immunity and damages your lungs. This increases your chance of getting COVID-19.
As per WHO
Nicotine is present in maximum amount in tobacco which is very harmful to health. A person gets 1-2mg of nicotine from each cigarette (on average).
What happens when you smoke?
- A person starts feeling thirst, anxious, brain not working properly.
- They lose sense of smell and flavor.
- Your skin and lips turn dry and black.
- You will have difficulty in breathing or suffocated.
Tobacco is responsible for 25% of all cancer death globally. Use of tobacco, nicotine increase the chances of complicated disease like cancer, heart disease, respiratory diseases.
Hence nicotine present in cigarettes makes a person addicted to drugs and hence it becomes difficult to quit smoking.
The long term side effects of smoking are devastating. Smoking causes 2/3rd of lung cancer deaths globally.
Smoking causes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In this lungs are filled with mucus containing causing painful cough and difficulty in breathing.
It also causes Asthama, emphysema, pneumonia, chronic bronchitis, and lower respiratory infections.
Who are second-hand smokers?
Second-hand smoking or Passive smoking is the inhalation of smoke from surrounding active smokers. That means if someone smokes cigarettes, cigars, or pipes or any tobacco products around you then you are inhaling that smoke unknowingly.
Do you say that you don’t smoke? But you are in constant touch with family/friends who smoke. Dear, you are passive smokers. How? As they expel out the smoke, you inhale it. Remember this smoke travels to the lungs.
Passive Smokers are at risk especially children or pregnant ladies. Their chances of getting respiratory infections, heart diseases, stroke, or even lung cancer increased.
Remember while smoking you are not only affecting yourself but people around you including your loved ones. So today on WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY, determine to quit smoking and choose life.
The benefits of quitting smoking:
- When you quit, it’s easier to breathe.
- You can start recognizing the sense of smell and flavor.
- You will get Sound sleep
- Your appetite will improve.
- Your digestion will improve.
- You feel less anxious, irritable.
- Your skin regains its old luster and glow.
- Your heart rate and blood pressure drop.
- Within 2-12 weeks, your lung starts functioning normally.
- After 1-9 month, decrease in coughing and shortness of breath
Refrences: http://www.nhp.gov.in/no-smoking-day_pg https://www.who.int/tobacco/wntd/en/
The benefits of not smoking are too highs than smoking.. It’s good to not smoke or call it quits. Very beneficial article
Smoking is indeed a very harmful habit, not just for smokers but also for the people around them. A wonderful article.
The world knows the hazards of smoking, and yet it is an irony that people still use tobacco in some form or the other. Be it a stress buster or to create an impression, the effects are going to be the same, disastrous!
Such an informative post… what i like a most is the way you show the benefit of quiting it.
That’s a very informative and helpful.post. I hope people who smoke understand the side effect and stop smoking.
I have seen a friend suffer coz of excessive smoking. Seriously this bad habit is not worth your life.
The best thing i liked is the way u mention the benefits of quiting the smoking. Very informative post it is.
This is really a well described post about why people should quit smoking as soon as possible. The thing is you can’t change some people until they get their reality check.
I truly believe posts like this this should reach far and wide so that people know the mistake they are committing and correcting them timely
its really very hard for the people to quit smoking,but there’s nothing in this world you wont quit. if a person has dedication,then they can take a small step to protect them and even theri family members.
This is one piece if information that should reach as many people as possible ; sharing it to many more. Great write up
Quitting smoking as early as possible can save many lives. Thanks for motivating with this reminder post. Smokers, you must read it!
Quoting tabacco at the right time is necessary. In fact I would say don’t make this tobacco habit at all.
This is indeed a motivating post. I m surely sharing this with everyone I know, who smokes. Quitting smoking can save many lives