Are you itching to reach out for that lighter and light up that cigarette? Are you aching to draw a stick of nicotine whenever you finish eating your meal?

Before you light up and puff your next cigarette, you should consider the following facts and figures. Here they are -

The Risks Discussed

- Smoking has been ranked as the number one cause of preventable death in the United States. This is the number one cause of many different diseases and deaths in many western countries. By the way, the deaths rooting from smoking are by no means easy and painless. They involve multiple damaged organs and systems. Ouch!

- It’s the number one cause of many different and deadly forms of cancer as well as cardiac diseases and even stroke. A lot of smokers are not aware of it. But smoking adds significant risk of heart disease and stroke, which may have something to do with the higher blood pressure one gets when smoking.

- Almost every organ in the human body is damaged or harmed by smoking. With thousands of different and harmful chemicals found in cigarette or tobacco smoke, this is not very surprising. That explains why researches about the harmful effects of smoking are still on-going – they’re virtually endless!

- Respiratory diseases like emphysema and bronchitis are worsened by smoking. If you want to live the last days of your life dragging an oxygen bottle around, then by all means, light up that cigarette stick and another one after that. I don’t know about you but that doesn’t sound like a great way to live…or die.

I could go on and on about the health risks posed by smoking but it will take up a whole notebook to list them and discuss them in detail. But here’s the bottom line – every day that you smoke is taking the step to the wrong and deadly direction where every organ you have are severely damaged. That’s especially true for your lungs. Many reformed smokers die of lung cancer years after they quitted the vice.

Needless to say, it can lead to an untimely death.

What Should You Do

Everybody knows that quitting smoking is never an easy task…but it’s doable no doubt. There are thousands of people around the globe who successfully quit smoking. How did they do it? Two steps are involved – plan your work to stop smoking and work on it!

And work on it before everything is too late.