Time to quit smoking

Everyone has heard about the new law being passed around campus about the clean air act.  This act has been trying to crack down on smoking around the campus completely.  This is a hard ban to put on a campus where a lot of students smoke.  All in all, now is the perfect time to quit smoking completely.  Smoking does a lot more to your body and to your health than you think.  Smoking can cause damage to your body that is not curable.

There are three major problems that smoking and tobacco use can leave on your body; you can develop heart disease, cancer, and lung problems.  According to Ehealthmd.com, smoking is responsible for 30 percent of all heart attacks and cardiovascular deaths, 30 percent of all cancers, 87 percent of all lung cancer deaths per year, and 82 percent deaths due to emphysema and chronic bronchitis.  These are huge issues that can occur in your body that cannot be cured.

Other than the changes to your organs, it also makes obvious changes to your skin, making it age quicker, having yellow fingernails, and having yellow teeth.  Smoking also quickens the disease of osteoporosis, which is a disease that weakens all the bones in your body.  This allows you to break bones easier and to become weak when you are older.

Smoking during pregnancy is worst than smoking when you are not perceiving a child.  Smoking harms and damages an unborn baby inside the womb.  It also increases the chances of having a miscarriage, premature baby, or even a death of a baby.  When you smoke while you are pregnant, you reduce the child’s weight by a half of a pound.  This half of a pound can be crucial to the child’s health because the child could only weigh to be only 3 or 4 pounds.  This makes it harder for the child to survive their first month.

The child can also develop ADD or ADHD and behavioral issues when they are older, while having less of an IQ than an average person their age.  This is serious because not only are they suffering the first month of being premature, but they have to suffer the rest of their lives having to deal with ADD or ADHD, and having a lower IQ.

It is very important to stop this habit now and not have it affect your life later.  According to Americanheart.org, it is said that people who quit smoking are more likely to have their heart failure to improve.  There are plenty of ways to get help with quitting, and ways to prevent it completely.  First ways to get help is going to the counselors on campus and to set up an appointment.  They can suggest helpful tips and ways to prevent smoking.

Other tips would be to keep yourself busy.  This will make it harder for you to take time out to smoke.  Also to surround yourself with people who do not like to smoke because this will eliminate temptations.  Find replacements for smoking, rather than reaching for a cigarette grab a hard candy or drink coffee instead.

A major tip for smokers are if you do break down and decide to have a cigarette, make sure you do not give up!  Start new right then and keep going.  Overall, you just feel so much better when you have stopped smoking completely.  When you are thinking about quitting, begin an exercise workout.

Working out and exercising helps your body get rid of stress and all the damages that cigarettes cause.  Yoga is a great way to start with exercise because it really concentrates on your breathing, and deep breathing can help you take away an urge to smoke.  Yoga is a great class to learn how to breathe correctly and to ease your body into exercising.  Exercising also helps you drink more water.

Drinking water can help you in many ways and most people do not drink enough water, but it also helps you flush all the nicotine out of your body.  Quitting can help your body, your future and your lifestyle.  It will save you so much money over time for not buying tobacco. products and can save your life. goals.  Set a date to when you want to stop smoking and set a limit of cigarettes a day (with each day you lessoning the amounts of cigarettes).

Be positive about quitting and always be aware of why you want a cigarette.  When you figure out the problem of why you want to smoke, than sooner or later you can eliminate that issue.