Nicotine is a drug and like any other drug you can get addicted to it. This does not mean you can not quit smoking cigarettes though. Quitting takes willpower and the determination to go through with it.

After you have been smoking for a while your brain literally rewires itself and associates activities like having a coffee,tea talking with friends with smoking. That is why you tend to get get sudden cravings.

The fact you are reading this means you are determined to stop smoking. Here are some very good reasons why you should stop smoking right now. keep them in mind each time you want to have a cigarette. Write them down and keep them with you.

1. From the first day you quit smoking your lungs start to clear out. You may experience a lot of coughing for the first few weeks,but this is a good sign. It just means all the tar and

junk is leaving your lungs. With each passing day your lungs are breathing more freely.

2. The risk of lung cancer and other diseases will drop dramatically over time. By smoking you are playing russian roulette with your health.

3. The tone and texture of your skin will improve dramatically.Smoking damages your skin by reducing blood flow to capillaries. The effect of this is premature ageing,your face will wrinkle and your skin colouring will change. Do you want to be old before your time?

4. From the day you quit the risk of having a heart attack decreases dramatically and continues decreasing.

5. Cancer caused by smoking is not a myth it is a fact. Tobacco smoke contains at least 50 known cancer causing agents. The risk of lung cancer is highly elevated in smokers. if you do not gamble with money why gamble with your health?

6. You are spending money every day that could go towards other things. Have you ever worked out how much a week you spend on cigarettes. I know the answer is probably no, because most smokers do not want to think about it. Sit down and work out how much you spend a week. multiply that by four. then multiply again by 12.

That figure is how much you spend a year on cigarettes. Are you shocked? you should be.

7. Your health insurance is weighted heavily because your are a smoker. quit and save a fortune.

finally and probably more importantly.

8. If you are a young woman. Do you want to risk smoking during pregnancy. In some people the urge to smoke is so strong that they cannot help but smoke. Everything you eat drink and smoke during pregnancy passes right through to your baby. Do you want to chance damaging not only your health but your unborn child?

It is never too late to stop smoking and it is never to early to stop either.

Smoking is the only legal way I know of where you actually pay money to try and kill yourself,put the opposite sex off dating you, Pay money to look older and in the process try and give yourself a heart attack.

Stop smoking today.

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