Smoking is one of the most dangerous habits you can pick up and it’s even more dangerous for people with asthma or heart problems. Smoking includes products filled with tobacco and is inhaled into the lungs through a cigarette, pipe, cigar or bongs.

The most common form of nicotine smoking today involves the cigarette. It is so popular that over one billion people across the world are smoking tobacco today.
Most people started smoking during their  teenage years just to look “cool” then become addicted with little will to quit.
It’s a heavy price to pay financially and with your health.

Smoking is a major health risk because it can lead to heart attacks, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and even cause birth defects of children born from women who smoked while pregnant.

Smoking it’s not only a danger to the person holding the cigarette. Secondhand smoke has also caused  health problems to people who do not smoke but are in the company of or near smokers.

Smoking has become such an important discussion because of its side effects that any advertisement promoting smoking, cigarettes, or tobacco products has been banned from television and magazines.

The death rate in the United States from smoking has reached almost 500,000 deaths per year and some experts predict that 1/3 of Chinese men will have their lives shortened because of complications from smoking.

It is estimated by doctors across the globe that people who smoke will live somewhere between 2.5 to 10 years less than non-smokers. Close to one-half of male smokers will die due to an illness from smoking. The main forms of cancer caused by smoking are lung, kidney, breast, larynx, bladder, esophagus and colorectal cancer.

There are a variety of ways for smokers to quit their bad habit. Tobacco and nicotine are extremely addicting drugs that can be difficult to pull away from.

Some ways of quitting smoking are using nicotine replacement therapies which include gum and the patch, hypnosis, quitting ‘cold turkey’ and acupuncture.

Smoking is a dangerous habit, especially for people with pre-existing heart conditions or asthma. Smoking bans are a result of the effects from secondhand smoke. Despite the difficulty of breaking the bad habit it can be done and can be done in enough time to prolong life.

What is your secret for quiting or not ever smoking?
Insights for current smokers are welcomed as well.

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