Smoking Is No Longer Cool

As of March 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that about 22% of high school students and 22% of adults in America are current cigarettes smokers, making of this issue a major health concern nationwide. Awareness, however, is not enough to help you quit smoking.

Let’s face it, you know that smoking cigarettes is not a “chic thing” any longer. Advertising through the 20th century pictured men and women becoming socially successful, sensual or fascinating just for the fact of smoking “x” cigarette brand. Today, all of us know that it is not a matter of brands, but a problem of putting your life at risk.

Cigarette smoking is responsible for about 438,000 deaths in the United States each year, remaining as the top preventable cause of death in the country. Furthermore, 38,000 of those deaths are caused by secondhand smoke exposure, so even the non-smoker is exposed to lethal compounds produced by tobacco as it is burned.

When it comes to quitting smoking, learning more about health problems that tobacco causes for your family and yourself may not be enough evidence to stop smoking cigarettes. Every sincere attempt to do so, however, contributes to gradually reducing your addiction to nicotine, and eliminating the many harmful substances found in tobacco smoke.

There are natural products and over-the-counter nicotine replacements such as nicotine gum and patches, useful aids for getting over the addiction to cigarettes. Making realistic goals, setting a date for quitting smoking, and sticking as much as possible to your plans is a must for a healthy life.

Whether this is your first quitting attempt, or whether you have been trying to quit for years — don’t give up.  Just start over again if your attempt fails. As one of the most powerful stimulant drugs, nicotine is an addiction that must be admitted, explored, and battled consistently.

Never try to minimize the problem by saying that smoking is something that you can deal with. Reducing the number of cigarettes you smoke per day does not reduce your chances of getting a serious illness, like a lung disease, cancer or heart stroke.

Exercising, thinking positively and getting involved in activities held in places where smoking is not permitted are just basic, but effective, steps toward a brand new non-smoking day.

RD Warren

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