Giving Up Smoking - Why You Should Start Today
There’s as many reasons for giving up smoking as there are people trying to quit. You yourself must find the right reason for you to stop smoking. If you already have health issues, it should surely include the fact that you may feel much better and have far fewer symptoms if you stop, and will be giving yourself a much better chance of remaining healthy for much longer. But there are plenty of other reasons for giving up smoking.
If you are a young adult or teenager, who sees middle age and sickness as remote possibilities, and smoking as exciting and dangerous, the best attacks on smoking are the way it makes you look and smell.
You can also add the environmental pollution of cigarette ends and the way big business exploits Third World nations, keeping their populations in poverty while they make huge profits by putting land that should be growing food under tobacco cultivation.
Pakistan uses 120,000 acres, and Brazil half a million acres of their richest agricultural land, to grow tobacco. And as the multinationals are now promoting their product very heavily to the developing world, no one who smokes can claim to be really concerned about the health of the Third World. Is this as persuasive an argument for you to stop (or not to start) as any about health or looks?
If you are a more mature woman, looks may be the key. Smoking ages you prematurely, causing wrinkles and giving a pale, pasty complexion. If you smoke you will probably experience the menopause at an earlier age than normal, even in your mid-thirties, which can destroy your plans to have your family after a career.
For men and older women, the prime motivation is better health. The statistics for men and women in their sixties who smoke are frightening. More than a third of men who smoke fail to reach pension age. So giving up smoking has an impact on everybody’s life literally all over the world.
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