Experts suggest that you need to realize how drastically smoking can affect your health now before it’s too late to do anything. Cigarette smoke can kill you slowly till none of your organs will function properly. Nicotine and carbon monoxide contained in cigarette smoke are considered to be the most harmful chemicals.
Nicotine can not only affect you physically but can also cost you your emotions and can leave you craving for it. Smokers need to quit smoking before it’s too late to face the consequences or effects of smoking.
Health Effects of Smoking
Some disturbing health effects of smoking are listed here below:
- Smoking leads to cancer of the lungs, larynx, stomach, etc to name a few
- Poor blood circulation that can irritability, lack of concentration, headaches, etc
- Smoking increases your vulnerability to strokes and heart attacks
- Can affect others around you, children and unborn infants in pregnant mothers
- Smoking can make children vulnerable to chest infections and asthma
- Smoking can lead to miscarriages, infant deaths or premature births
- Excessive smoking can also lead to impotency in men and infertility in women
- Smoking can weaken your bones
- Smoking can cause wrinkles
- Lose your sense of taste and smell
- Poor concentration
- Lack of energy
- Mood swings
Other Risks of Smoking
Some additional risks associated with the habit of smoking are listed below:
- Yellow teeth
- Stained nails
- Smelly clothes, skin and hair
- Irritability
- Drains your finances
Stop smoking before you are or before you compel others to experience any of the above situations. It’s never too late to mend your ways but smoking can cost you a lot in terms of money, health or your loved one. So every smoker should realize how important it is for them to quit smoking – “the sooner the better”.
