How Your Smoking Affects Your Loved Ones

Your cigarette, cigar or pipe smoking doesn’t only have an affect on your health. The U.S. Surgeon General’s report “The Health Consequences of Smoking,” released in 2004, states it has been proven that smoking (or living with a person who smokes) can cause disease in nearly every organ of the body, in men as well as women. This means that every time you “light up” you are potentially damaging the health of your children, your spouse and your loved ones.

It is a fact that second hand smoke (also known as environmental tobacco smoke or ETS) is a major cause of children’s illness. As children have developing lungs and have higher breathing rates than adults they run the greatest risk of health effects. In children under the age of 18 second hand smoke has been linked with pneumonia, lower respiratory tract infections, upper respiratory tract irritation, increased severity of asthma and asthmatic symptoms. It has been associated with sudden infant death syndrome, middle ear infections, upper respiratory tract infections (colds and sore throats) and cancers and leukemia. Japanese researchers just released a study that suggests that second hand smoke may affect childrens gums. 70 f the children of smokers had a brownish or black pigmentation of their gums.

Statistics show that approximately 3,000 non-smoking adults die of lung cancer each year as a result of second hand smoke. Second hand smoke has been linked to nasal sinus cancer, cancer of the cervix, breast and bladder. Second hand smoke also causes an increased risk of death from heart disease.

If you must smoke, it is essential that you protect your loved ones, especially children. Don’t smoke in your home. If you must smoke, smoke outside. Do not smoke in your car when your children are with you. Make sure that childcare providers and others who work in your home or around your children do not smoke.

The fact is that it’s not only your own health at risk when you smoke. You quitting will make your loved ones healthier, and happier too.

Author: Brian Gill please check out The Non Smoker

My True Story

Started Smoking at the age of 16. A pack of 20 a day at the age of twenty then 25 a day at thirty and just last year I was smoking over 30 smokes a day.

One of the hardest things about giving up smoking was not the fear of what might happen during giving up nor the cost but it was simply that I would have to look back on all the years I had smoked and try and justify why I did.

That being said I faced that demon and researched the hell out of the topic ” How to stop smoking” as painless as is possible.

I found it.

I completed the program and so did my wife and I am happy to say we are both non-smokers and have been since April 2008.

Why am I sharing this. The program I used does not require you to pay for aids, patches, drugs or anything actually. It worked because it really is so simple and anyone, yes anyone no matter how long they have smoked could complete this program and stop smoking forever.

I am not going to push the program here but will happily tell you where to go to find it.

Just click the picture if you are ready to stop smoking.

If you have a better way to stop smoking I am sure more readers would love to hear about it or have you had experience with the program I used? I would be glad to hear your positive comments here. I say positive because I did use the program and the only way it could not work for someone was for them to not follow it 100%.

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