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Facts About Quitting
Quitting Facts
- A one pack-a-day smoker who pays $4 per pack will save almost $1,500.00 per year.
- Quitting reduces a person's chances of having a heart attack or stroke.
- Quitting reduces a person's chances of getting lung cancer, emphysema, and other lung diseases.
- Quitting smoking substantially decreases the risk laryngeal, esophageal, oral, pancreatic, bladder, and cervical cancers.
- Smokers who quit before age 50 have half the risk of dying in the next 15 years compared to those who continue to smoke.
- People who quit, no matter what their age, live longer than people who continue to smoke.
- Quitting means better smelling clothes, hair, breath, home, and car.
- Quitting means climbing stairs and walking without getting out of breath.
- Quitting means being free of my morning cough.
- Quitting means more energy to pursue enjoyable physical activities.
- Quitting means more control over your own life.
- Immediately after quitting smoking: you never again have to deal with the hassle of leaving your workplace, someone's home, your own home, a restaurant, or other places to smoke.
- When you quit smoking, you stop hurting those around you. The secondhand smoke from your cigarettes can make your family and friends have more colds and asthma attacks. It can also put them at risk for heart and lung diseases, and even lung cancer.
- Quitting helps prevent your children from smoking.
- Parents who quit reduce the number of coughs, colds, and earaches their child will have
- In the short term, quitting smoking reduces respiratory problems, dental problems, nervousness and depression.
- Quitting smoking cleanses your body of harmful substances. More than 4,000 individual compounds have been identified in tobacco and tobacco smoke. Among these are about 60 compounds that cause cancer.
- Quitting smoking during pregnancy lowers the risk of birth defects to your unborn child.
- Quitting smoking during pregnancy lowers the risk of having a stillborn baby, a baby born too early or prematurely, or an infant with low birth weight.
- Quitting smoking reduces wrinkles and yellow spots on your fingers, and gives you a better sense of taste and smell.
- When you stop smoking you have fresher and better smelling clothes, hair, and breath.
- When you stop smoking, things will taste and smell better.
- When your home is smoke-free, it will smell much better.
When you’re ready for a richer, more satisfying life free of that tired old addiction, contacting us is the very first step. We can confidentially explore your needs and desires, and if you should decide to succeed, we’re here to finally make it happen. You can become a non-smoker. Each person we help is different, but all can experience an abundant life with a more satisfying balance, greater joy, and an enriched sense of well being. You can become a non-smoker now.
If you should desire to schedule a session or should like additional information, please feel free to call 623-776-3296 or email info@itworksforyou.net anytime, and we will reply in one business day or less.
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Source: US Department of Health and Human Services and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
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