We all know that smoking cigarettes or other tobacco products are bad for you and harmful to your health. According to the American Lung Association, “more than 480,000 people die from tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke, making it the leading cause of preventable death in this country.” (www.lung.org, n.d.) Another staggering fact is that “smoking is related to higher risks of serious diseases and is expected to kill more than 5 million people every year.” (Lüscher, et al., 2015) Even though I am aware of the dangers of smoking, I have been smoking for eighteen years. I did quit for five years, but unfortunately stress caused me to relapse and it has been twelve years since I started smoking again. I decided that on this change
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I was hoping to look at tips that might help me achieve my goals. I knew the reasons that I wanted to quit. I wanted to quit because my health is important to me. I knew that my father died of complications for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD, he suffered a stroke and had heart disease. He was a smoker for over 50 years. My mother died from a stroke and also had heart disease, even though she had quit smoking 30 years prior to her death. I also suffered from transient ischemic attacks or TIA which is a mini stroke 11 years ago. I have been making changes in my life recently and I started losing weight, so I thought quitting smoking would also be a great benefit to me and my health. The American Lung Association tells you how your health will improve after just twenty minutes after your last cigarette and “15 years after your last cigarette you are risks of heart disease are the same as a nonsmoker.” (www.lung.org, n.d.) Plus, smoking is expensive, between the three people in my house that smoke we pay more a month on cigarettes than we do on our mortgage each month. The American Lung Association lists the five secrets to quitting: “It’s never too late to quit, learn from your past experiences, you don’t have to quit alone, medication can help, every smoker can quit.” (www.lung.org,
I was hoping to look at tips that might help me achieve my goals. I knew the reasons that I wanted to quit. I wanted to quit because my health is important to me. I knew that my father died of complications for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD, he suffered a stroke and had heart disease. He was a smoker for over 50 years. My mother died from a stroke and also had heart disease, even though she had quit smoking 30 years prior to her death. I also suffered from transient ischemic attacks or TIA which is a mini stroke 11 years ago. I have been making changes in my life recently and I started losing weight, so I thought quitting smoking would also be a great benefit to me and my health. The American Lung Association tells you how your health will improve after just twenty minutes after your last cigarette and “15 years after your last cigarette you are risks of heart disease are the same as a nonsmoker.” (www.lung.org, n.d.) Plus, smoking is expensive, between the three people in my house that smoke we pay more a month on cigarettes than we do on our mortgage each month. The American Lung Association lists the five secrets to quitting: “It’s never too late to quit, learn from your past experiences, you don’t have to quit alone, medication can help, every smoker can quit.” (www.lung.org,