Smoking Effects Preventable

Simply put, there cannot be said that any smoking effects that are good, not for the smoker, their children, pets or even the environment.

The most devastating of these is that smoking kills. One out of every two smokers will probably die by middle age directly as a result of the cigarette habit. Smoking lung cancer is the biggest preventable cause of death according to today’s statistics. Heart disease among smokers is even more prevalent than cancer. Unbelievable but true.

So what exactly happens when you smoke ?

First of the smoking effects is that you become addicted to nicotine, the active drug contained in tobacco. As a result, and like in most addictions, you have to keep smoking, and many times there is an increasing craving  so you need more cigarettes than when you first begun. And what begun as fun turns into a nightmare when many discover that they would wish to stop but cannot because of the addiction.

Your health is affected.

Heart rate  and blood pressure become elevated and so your heart and blood vessels become strained. Oxygen is cut off and blood flow is slowed down. Breathing becomes difficult as airways become clogged up and let in less air into the lungs.
Smoking diseases set in, ranging from coughs and colds all the way to chronic bronchitis and emphysema. And progressively the muscles, lungs, brain, body organs and tissue have less and less oxygen to function and the whole body is in bad health.

If however you kick the habit, the smoking effects begin to reverse immediately and the body begins to repair itself. Progressively, you begin to enjoy health and longevity. Now that is the good news!