NYC Sees The Benefits When People Stop Smoking - News Aura

New York City Smoking

New York City has seen a decline in the number of smoke related deaths, as numbers of smokers in the city have dropped. Cardiovascular disease is down 27%, cancer is down 9%, and respiratory disease is down 12%.

Health Department Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley says “Smoking still kills more than 7,000 New Yorkers each year, and thousands more will suffer smoking-induced strokes, heart attacks, debilitating lung diseases and cancers. It’s never too late to quit smoking. We want to help smokers to do just that.”

Did you know that there are benefits when you decide to give up smoking? For starters, there are a lot of hazardous factors that may cause death and can’t be prevented such as alcohol abuse, drug abuse, accidents, and diseases that are not 100% treatable, apart from all of this factors, cause of death will be prevented when you stop smoking. Once you quit smoking. More years will be added to your life. Most people know about all of the harmful effects of smoking but sometimes especially when you have been doing the habit almost half of your life, the compulsion to smoke is really very, very irresistible. Even if we know all the benefits that we would get once we stop smoking, quitting is really not that easy. It’s always easier said than done.

The good thing is even if you’re having a hard time quitting the smoking habit; it will be a good start to acknowledge the fact that smoking is bad for your health. This acknowledgement may lead to the possibilities of taking steps to gradually stop smoking. Even if you haven’t officially committed yourself at least you’re open to the idea of quitting to smoke.

There are a lot of ways to stop smoking. All you need is a lot of determination and self-discipline. Finding out about all the health problem’s and diseases that smoking can cause you might be a helpful step for stopping. Smoking may cause cervical cancer in women, for pregnant moms this can cause premature birth, low birth weight, and also miscarriages. It may be the cause of impotence for smoking men, other health problems include strokes, heart diseases, lung cancer, pulmonary diseases and osteoporosis, brittleness of the bones which results to higher susceptibility to fractures. Your taste, sense of smell and breathing will also be affected by smoking.

Physiological and physical dependence to smoking is caused by the nicotine in tobacco or cigarettes. You might be determined to stop but the desire to smoke will always be stronger making it very hard to resist. It is explained to be a complex form of smoking addiction. Unpleasant withdrawal effects are experienced when smoking is stopped and sometimes it becomes the reason for continuing the habit all over again. Breathing secondhand smoke may also cause potential health risks. Non-smokers who are living with people who smoke will increase their risk of having lung cancer and heart diseases by 25%.

Think of all the benefits you will gain when you stop smoking for good. First of all, it will be granted the pleasure of living a longer life and improve the quality of your health. You’ll have more money to save and because smoking is the cause of damage and wrinkled skin, you will start to look better too.

Support and encouragement from family and friends will make it much easier for you to stop smoking especially smokers who seek professional help. They will have much higher chances of successfully quitting to smoke than smokers with willpower to depend alone.

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