Bad Effects of Smoking – Makes Your Life Worse

Author: peter hutch
There is strong medical evidence that smoking tobacco is related to more than two dozen diseases and conditions. It has negative effects on nearly every organ of the body and reduces overall health. Smoking tobacco remains the leading cause of preventable death and has negative health impacts on people of all ages: unborn babies, infants, children, adolescents, adults, and seniors.
Smoking leads people to develop health problems like cancer, emphysema (breakdown of lung tissue), organ damage, and heart disease. These diseases limit a person's ability to be normally active — and can be fatal. Each time a smoker lights up, that single cigarette takes about 5 to 20 minutes off the person's life.

How Does Smoke Affect Cholesterol?
Smoking tobacco in any form, even cigars, will have the effect of increasing LDL cholesterol and decreasing HDL cholesterol. It also slightly increases triglycerides. This is a triple whammy because it negatively affects all your cholesterol levels. Cholesterol levels have a direct correlation with coronary artery disease also known as atherosclerosis.

Smoking Cause Heart Disease
The current data demonstrate that the ill effects of secondhand smoke result from many components of tobacco smoke. These include carbon monoxide, nicotine, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and others.
The carbon monoxide produced by passive smoking competes with oxygen for binding sites on red blood cells. This reduces the blood's ability to deliver oxygen to the heart and compromises the heart muscle's ability to use oxygen to create adenosine triphosphate. The carbon monoxide also increases the amount of lactate in venous blood.
What about cigar and pipe smoking?
People who smoke cigars or pipes seem to have a higher risk of death from coronary heart disease (and possibly stroke), but their risk isn't as great as that of cigarette smokers. This is probably because they're less likely to inhale the smoke. Currently there's very little scientific information on cigar and pipe smoking and cardiovascular disease, especially among young men, who represent the vast majority of cigar users.

Smoking Cause Acne In Women
New findings link Acne in women who smoke. Italian researchers from the San Gallicano Dermatological Institute in Rome have found that smoking causes acne in human and affects women the most. They discovered a particular type of acne known as NIA (non inflammatory acne), which is common in smoker. This type of acne in smoker is characterised by blocked pores, large blackheads, which are less inflamed than normal acne.

Increased risk of illness. Studies show that smokers get more colds, flu, bronchitis, and pneumonia than nonsmokers. And people with certain health conditions, like asthma, become more sick if they smoke (and often if they're just around people who smoke). Because teens who smoke as a way to manage weight often light up instead of eating, their bodies lack the nutrients they need to grow, develop, and fight off illness properly.

The report concludes that smoking reduces the overall health of smokers, contributing to such conditions as hip fractures, complications from diabetes, increased wound infections following surgery, and a wide range of reproductive complications. For every premature death caused each year by smoking, there are at least 20 smokers living with a serious smoking-related illness.
Why Did You Fail to Quit Smoking Last Time?
Author: Pete France
I don’t often talk about this to my friends who still smoke, but I am convinced that one of the reasons that I failed to give up smoking so many times was that they would not let me!

What do I mean?

Well, here’s an example. It was one Friday night a long time ago and I had decided to give up smoking. At that time, my Friday night and Saturday nights were basically my whole life! I worked hard during the week and Friday and Saturday nights were my time to let loose and relax in bars and clubs with my friends.

You’re probably thinking that a Friday night was not the best time to decide to quit smoking – you’re right! About three beers later the thought of not having a cigarette was starting to become unbearable. All the girls I wanted to go talk to were smoking too.

So that was my situation. Surrounded by my friends having a great time (and smoking), the great looking ladies having a great time (and smoking). So……next thing you know, I’m having a great time (and smoking).

I initially thought that my apparent total lack of willpower stemmed from the amount of beer coursing through my system and reducing my ability to resist a smoke. But that wasn’t the real reason. It was a contributory factor, certainly, but it wasn’t the determining factor.

The real reason I think that I had a pack of cigarettes that night is that my friends who smoked did not want me to leave their ‘private smoking club’. Strange, but the more I think about it, the more I think it’s true.

Maybe it’s because smoking is a ‘them versus us’ activity, where the smoker is the ‘little guy’ valiantly fighting for his or her right to taint themselves with this peculiar habit.

“At least they didn’t stop me smoking, damn it”

The smoker will cry, victoriously raising a nicotine stained hand up to the skies, before noisily hacking their lungs up into a hospital kidney dish and passing over to the other side.

Sorry. I do get carried away sometimes. The danger of the smug ex-smoker I guess.

Back to my theory. I think that when a friend of a group of smoking friends expresses their desire to quit smoking, the others in the group (albeit subconsciously) try to prevent you from doing so. The reasons are not because your friends do not like you or don’t want you to be happy. Quite the opposite. They like you, so they don’t want you to leave their inner circle.

Be aware of this and be prepared for it. That way you are expecting it to happen and can plan a strategy to stop it becoming yet another failed giving up attempt.