Read This Before You Buy Another Pack Of Smokes
By Brent Crouch
Read this fact sheet before you smoke your next cigarette. The health benefits to be gained from quitting, both instantaneously and in the long-term, are too great to be ignored, and so are the dangers of continuing to smoke.

As the actual price of cigarettes steadily rises, so too do the health care costs associated with nicotine. related conditions. It is estimated that in the United States alone nearly $80 billion is spent treating diseases caused by nicotine.

What You Must Know About Smoking

- Smoking cigarettes is the number one preventable cause of all deaths.

- It is never too late to stop smoking cigarettes. Just minutes after you put out your last cigarette, your blood pressure and heart rate will already have lowered and your circulation improved. 24 nicotine free hours and your risks of having a heart attack have decreased. Within a few days of quitting, any lung tissue not yet permanently damaged will begin healing itself.

- 15 completely smoke-free years and your risks of suffering a stroke are no longer significantly higher than those of someone who has never had one cigarette.

- Nonsmokers have a significantly higher energy level than smokers as the carbon monoxide levels in the blood stream are affected by the smoke, causing one to feel tired and lethargic for no apparent reason.

- Smoking contributes not only to lung cancer but also to cancer of the mouth, esophagus, larynx, pharynx, pancreas, and bladder.

- Cigarette smoke causes diseases and illnesses such as emphysema, chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), depression, diabetes, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer's disease.

- Beating the habit can clear up chronic coughing and shortness of breath and reduce your susceptibility to sinus infections.

- Smoking during pregnancy is highly correlated with stillbirth, sudden infant death syndrome, and lower than average birth weight.

Little Known Facts About Cigarettes

- One in every four men smoke, and one in every women continues to smoke despite the numerous and startling health warnings.

- Secondhand smoke, or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is linked to 3,000 deaths each year in the United States.

- Smoking decreases levels of fertility in both men and women and also increases a man's chances of becoming impotent.

- One cigarette contains over 4,000 chemicals including formaldehyde, insecticide, acetone(which you may recognize as nail polish remover) and hydrazine(rocket fuel.)

- 8 out of 10 smokers began their smoking habit before their 18th birthday.

- 8 out 10 smokers also report having extreme withdrawal symptoms when attempting to quit smoking, and the drug nicotine has been likened to heroin in terms of its addictive qualities.

- Nicotine replacement therapy in the form of patches gums, and lozenges is one of the more successful methods of beating the habit, along with prescription meds like carenicline and buproprion.

- Every day, nearly 5,000 adolescents under 18 try smoking for the first time.

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Brent Crouch is the owner of an internet marketing blog, BrentCrouch.com and StopSmokingEtc.com. He has dedicated this site to sharing advice on stop smoking aids and other stop smoking related topics.

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