Written by Stuart Stevens | Thursday, 27 December 2007
You may be thinking of quitting in the New Year? Our research at Ukmedix News shows that positive reasons for quitting such as feeling healthier and smelling better are extremely good motivators, but at the same time you need to consider the negative implications of continuing to smoke. The following are a number of reasons why you should quit smoking for good.

Every time you have a cigarette you damage your arteries and make them permanently harder and less elastic. This greatly increases the chances of you suffering from heart disease and dying a slow and painful death. Quitting smoking for a five year period can bring your heart disease risk to a level close to people who have never smoked. If you quit for fifteen years the likelihood of you suffering from lung cancer also comes to a level close to that of people who had never smoked.
One of the most terrible illnesses that smoking causes is emphysema. People who suffer from emphysema are prisoners in their own bodies as they are unable to move around and do normal things without getting very out of breath. Emphysema patients often have to go around with a tank full of oxygen by their side and can’t do simple things like going up the stairs. Emphysema is a disease that has no cure.
There are so many different illnesses and conditions caused and aggravated by smoking that the chances of you getting right through your life without suffering from one of them are extremely slim. Maybe you’ll be lucky…. and you will only suffer from erectile dysfunction as opposed to dying a slow and painful death.
If you fail to give up smoking this New Year and in a few years time you become serious ill from a life threatening illness you will regret having not given up this year, you probably will regret it more than anything you ever regretted in your life….
