Smoking pervades into so many different aspects of your life negatively

Do you want to know some fascinating facts about smoking? Well then read on. Did you know that when you quit smoking the body starts to change within twenty minutes? Your blood pressure already starts to decrease, your pulse rate will drop and the temperature of your feet and of your hands will increase.

Want some more? Smoking cigarettes increases the level of toxic carbon monoxide in your blood and when you quit smoking after eight hours the level of this toxic compound drops to a normal level and at the same time levels of oxygen in your blood which are decreased due to smoking go back to normal. Within just one day the chances of having a heart attack due to your smoking has already decreased and scientists claim that just two days later your ability to taste food better and to smell more clearly is improved due to the fact that your nerve endings start to regrow.

Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 different chemicals of which at least 60 are known to be compounds that can cause cancer. In America over 400,000 people pass away every year from smoking and it is estimated that on top of this passive smoking kills almost 40,000 non smokers every year. If you are a smoker the most likely thing to kill you before your time is up naturally is your cigarette habit.

Smoking pervades into so many different aspects of your life negatively that anyone who thinks objectively about it could not possibly ever consider smoking. You are more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction which could ruin an otherwise healthy relationship, you are more likely to die wheezing and coughing in a hospital bed, you are more likely to have a poorer quality of life as you are less mobile and less active due to lung and heart problems and the list goes on and on.

Yes, we know it’s difficult to give up smoking but take the psychological step and admit that you want to quit and that you hate the habit and you know that it is killing you and you are half way there in giving up. There are many smoking cessation treatments available not least the new wonder drug Champix made by Pfizer which actually works on the brain to make you not want to smoke.