Smokers generally do not like to be asked if they know what smoking is doing to their health, even if they do. However, if you are hooked on cigarettes or someone close to you is, it is likely that you are interested in these 9 reasons to quit smoking that you may not have heard of.
If you smoke, your future children will also smoke
It’s no surprise that children of smokers are more likely to smoke, but even if you quit smoking before your children are born, they may still pick up the habit. Some studies have found that the children of current and former smokers are 23% to 29% more likely to take up the addiction, compared to only 8% of children of non-smokers.
Even those who unknowingly became accustomed to nicotine had children who smoked at least 3.2 times more than those whose parents never smoked. Researchers are unsure why adolescent children of smokers mimic their parents, but some in the field believe this may be genetic.
A study conducted at the Harvard School of Public Health found that nicotine levels in cigarettes increased by 11% between 1997 and 2005. Even if you’ve
restricted your smoking habit to weekends or fewer cigarettes a day, it’s very likely that you are still consuming the same amount of nicotine. Additionally, smokers tend to use so-called light cigarettes, which are actually more dangerous. According to an article in the British Medical Journal, researchers found that people smoke more of the light cigarettes and fill their lungs with more toxic material than expected from regular cigarettes. This contributes to a global health issue.
If you smoke, you contribute to global poor health
Worldwide tobacco sales have increased so much that American cigarette manufacturers now earn more money abroad than in the United States, The Telegraph reports. The World Health Organization reports that nearly 80% of the world’s billion smokers live in poor and developing countries, which are less likely to regulate cigarette sales and promotions.
It makes you weaker
Cigarettes affect the cardiovascular system and reduce blood flow to the organs, heart, and the entire body. This affects your ability to perform tasks. But did you know that smoking can actually weaken your muscle response? With the carbon monoxide from smoking, it prevents muscles from receiving oxygen to produce energy. The less oxygen your muscles receive, the more limited their ability to work.
You will get sick more easily
Cigarettes paralyze the body's natural defense mechanisms. The chemicals in tobacco smoke cause inflammation and cell damage and can weaken the immune system. The body produces white blood cells to respond to injuries, infections, and
various types of cancer. The number of white blood cells remains high as the body constantly fights the damage caused by smoking, which can lead to diseases in almost every part of the body. Additionally, smoking alters the respiratory defense system, making smokers more prone to simple bacterial infections like Staphylococcus aureus and Haemophilus influenzae.
Smoking is like constantly exposing yourself to an X-ray machine
Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for one year contributes about 0.36 mSv of radiation dose to your body, Scientific American reported. Instead of smoking a pack a day, one could get 72 dental X-rays or fly for 106 hours. According to safety experts, we should avoid receiving more than one millisievert of radiation beyond the 3.1 millisieverts we naturally receive from sources like soil, rocks, and the sun. If 0.36 millisieverts is absorbed from smoking, there’s little room left for necessary X-rays, like a mammogram (0.4 millisieverts).
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