Reasons To Quit Smoking Cigarettes

No ifs, No butts

There is only one superb way to stop smoking. Kindly stop it- no ifs, no butts. Tobacco is a polluted weed, which surely you don’t need! Records show that 9 lakh Indians die every year- courtesy smoking. Enough reasons to make your choice? Follow on to know how.

How To Quit Smoking Cigarettes 

Over the years numerous people have come to Cancer Patients Aid Association expressing their genuine desire to quit smoking. Yet they are unable to do so. There are both psychological and pharmacological reasons why quitting is so tricky. The nicotine in Cigarettes is potentially as addictive as cocaine and heroine and hence as difficult to give up. Medical aids in the form of patches and chewing gum that release moderate amounts of nicotine into the bloodstream, have been found to be partially successful during the early days in combating withdrawal symptoms.

What Happens After Quitting Smoking

If you smoke, your body is constantly working to try and repair the damage done by regularly inhaling more than 4000 toxic chemicals. Every hour, day, week, month and year that you go without smoking, your health will improve. You will feel immediate benefits when you quit as your body starts to repair itself. Quitting at any age is beneficial and does not only increase life expectancy, it also improves quality of life.

Death of Innocence - An Anti Smoking Poem

I lie in here, beside the whitewashed wall,

My hair is gone, my head is bald,

The room is sterile and it's very cold,

Wish you were here, Dad, I need someone to hold.

An Article On Anti Nicotine & Anti Addictions

Nicotine is as addictive as drugs like cocaine and heroin. No wonder that it takes a little more than will power to kick smoking for good. You know it’s charring your lungs, your breath smells foul, your skin feels like leather, you feel exhausted all the time and you realise you stopped enjoying it a long time ago. So, you decide to stub out your last cigarette and swear no more, never more. You are smoke free for a day, for two, for a month. The pull of cigarette smoke beckons you everywhere – over drinks in pubs, in restaurants, while meeting friends, outside office. You resist. You feel good about it. But one day, you are vulnerable. You crave that fix. Just one, you reason with yourself. You succumb. You are a smoker again. Many smokers will be familiar with this story. After all, it’s the story of their lives. This is not to say that people don’t succeed. But this piece is for those who fail.