Smoking is the leading cause of death for both men and women in
the United States. About 420,000 deaths occur each year as a result of
smoking cigarettes. Individuals who smoke are likely to develop peptic
ulcer disease, and are more likely to develop cataracts, as opposed to
non-smokers. People, who smoke, are ten times more likely to die from
larynx cancer, esophagus, chronic obstructive lung disease, including
emphysema. The risk becomes even higher if cigarette smoking is combined
with alcohol use or with occupational exposure to certain types of
toxic substances, such as asbestos.
Many individuals continue to
smoke knowing these dangerous conditions, because they believe that
smoking has benefits like stress relief, anxiety, pleasure, or weight
maintenance, thinking that quitting smoking is difficult and won’t be an
easy task to accomplish. Individuals who quit smoking however have a
significantly lower life expectancy than continuing smokers. When
smokers can quit at a young age, it is a huge benefit because they are
exposing themselves relatively to fewer cigarettes.
Smokers
experience symptoms such as persistent coughing, chest pain, and
breathlessness. The fear of dying is what leads a lot of people to stop
smoking cigarettes. It takes 2 or 3 serious efforts before this mission
can be accomplished and sometimes may take even longer. Smoking
cessation is usually a learning process in which mistakes made in the
first attempt help improve odds of success during the next attempt. It
is a slow process, which requires hard work. When the person finally
hits the actual “quitting day”, the person stops smoking and it can be
called as the final stage.
Many doctors give advice to all
ex-smokers to avoid alcohol temporarily after quitting, since drinking
alcoholic beverages seems to induce relapses in cigarette smoking.
Because smokers use cigarettes to relieve anger, anxiety, and
frustrations; quitting often makes it difficult to get through their
daily routine. Those people may want to visit a psychologist, who may
help them cope with their new problems or concerns.
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