If you are considering quitting smoking then chances are that you already know all the reasons why you should quit smoking and are just looking to hear them again to strengthen your determination to quit. So here are the reasons why you should quit smoking.
- Not smoking is healthier for you than smoking. In fact, not only can smoking ruin your health but, it can shorten your life. If you become seriously ill from smoking you can place a physical and emotional burden on your family not to mention the financial burden that a long drawn out illness could put upon them.
- Quitting smoking could protect the life and health of your family. If you smoke around your family you not only put your health and life at risk but, theirs as well. Do you really want to be responsible for the ill health or shortened life of someone you love? Could you bear watching them suffer knowing that your smoking may have contributed to their health problems?
- Think of the example you are setting for your children. Your children know the dangers of smoking. They also know that you tell them to avoid dangerous behavior such as taking drugs or drinking. How much weight will your words carry with your children if you can’t stop your own dangerous behavior and kick your own nicotine habit.
- Think of the social implications. Smoking is no longer socially acceptable. With more and more people kicking the habit, your own smoking habit makes you look weak or worse insensitive to the health needs of others. In addition, smoking for the most part is no longer socially acceptable.
- Smoking makes your clothes and your home stink. Friends and neighbors may avoid coming to your home. Your school age children may be made fun of at school because their clothes smell of smoke. They may even want to avoid close contact with you due to the way your clothes and skin smells.
- Quitting smoking can be financially beneficial to you and your family. Depending on how much you smoke you can save literally thousands of dollars a year from quitting smoking. In this economy when every penny counts having an extra $60.00 to $70.00 a week can really make a difference to you and to your family. In addition, people who quit smoking report less missed time at work, and less doctor visits which will save you and your family even more money.
- Quitting smoking can make you look younger. Smoking contributes to the formation of fine lines and wrinkles, tooth loss, and other problems that can make you look old before your time. Quitting smoking now can help prevent the signs of aging or at least arrest the aging process.Quitting smoking also means that you will be able to be more physically active than you have been in quite some time. Increased lung function and eventually improved heart function will allow you to partake in activities that you have been unable to do for quite sometime or at least had some difficulty doing.
While these are all good reasons for quitting smoking there really is only one good reason for you to put those cigarettes down forever and that is because you genuinely want to quit. You are ready to get this particular monkey off your back and you are dedicated to doing so.
Quitting smoking will not be easy. In fact it may well be one of the most difficult things you have ever done. The first step is making the decision to quit and from then on it is a matter of quitting and then quitting again and again if necessary. Addiction, any addiction can be difficult to beat but, you can do it. Chances are you will have the support of your family and friends. Just remember you don’t have to go it alone. There are support groups as well as quit smoking aids that you can use to beat this habit once and for all.
There are hundreds of reasons to quit smoking but, only one that really matters. It’s time and you are ready to begin the process.
