QUIT SMOKING
Smoking is dangerous to health. Giving up smoking can be difficult, but with help from quit-smoking campaigns; smoking bans in public places; and nicotine replacement therapies you have a good chance of success.
NB! It is never too late to give up smoking; there will always be benefits to your health from doing so.The list of serious illnesses and diseases caused by smoking is a long one. Just some of the health risks from smoking are:
- cancers of the lung, mouth, larynx, kidney, oesophagus and cervix;
- most of the non-malignant heart, circulatory and lung disorders such as stroke, heart attacks, emphysema, bronchitis, pneumonia and asthma;
- premature ageing of the skin;
- impotence and problems with fertility.
You have to want to stop smoking if you are to be successful in breaking the habit. Here are a few tips and ideas.
DID YOU KNOW…? 8 hours after giving up smoking, oxygen levels in your blood will have returned to normal, and after 48 hours there will be no nicotine left in your body.
(Source: The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation: www.roycastle.org)
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