Find Out How To Quit, Where To Get Help And Other Facts About Smoking.





One of the most important facts about smoking is the fact that nothing......let me say that again, there is no thing that ages you as much as smoking does.

Another important fact about is that, when you draw on a cigarette the glowing tip reaches 925 degrees centigrade.

When it is heated the tobacco is broken down into chemical elements from which lethal compounds are formed.

•Ammonia

•acetone

•formaldehyde

•hydrogen cyanide

•about 4000 other chemicals (200 of which are toxic) are released into the air becoming irritants, poisons, mutagens and carcinogens (cancer forming elements)

These are the devastating effects that these chemicals have on your body, and on the bodies of people unlucky enough to be anywhere near you;

These facts about smoking should be imprinted on your brain, or your forehead or any other place that will make you, and others, stop smoking.

•Heart disease

•Increased blood pressure

•Raised bad cholesterol

•Lowered good cholesterol

•Decreased blood flow to all the organs (including sexual organs)

•Damage to lining of arteries

•Lung cancer

•Cancer of the throat, larynx and esophagus

•Respiratory illnesses such as asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia and emphysema

•It is thought to increase the risk of peptic ulcers, cataracts and mental decline

•Increased free radical damage to your DNA

•Quicker aging specifically sagging skin, wrinkles and grey hair

•Dental problems

•Female fertility problems

•Loss of bone density and increased risk of hip fractures, especially in post menopausal women

•Degenerative diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis

•Increased risk of diabetes

•Thyroid disease




Wow these facts about smoking are quite frightening! Do remember too that it is not only your own health that is being affected, but also those around you that are suffering the effects of second hand smoke.

To get to any of the many pages in the series on smoking please have a look at the links listed in the right hand column.

For more information on vitamin robbers (which smoking is) go to caffeine addiction and sugar addiction.

Another huge factor in antiaging and your health is the monitoring of your homocystein levels.

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Remember that quitting a tobacco product (pipes, cigars, snuff and chewing tobacco are just as dangerous as cigarettes) can reverse the effects of smoking within weeks.

See all the pages in the smoking series:

•facts about smoking

•ways to quit smoking

•quit smoking naturally

•quit smoking symptoms

•electronic cigarettes

•electronic cigarette reviews


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