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It seems like a lot of people try to get rid of cigarettes by replacing them with something else containing nicotine. The most popular being patches and gums. There might be some quit smoking benefits coming with that. After all- you don’t inhale tar, carbon-monoxide, and all the other poisonous substances.
Still, I have some doubts about this whole idea. In my opinion being a smoker means being a drug addict. I might be mistaken, but it seems like a silly idea to replace one way to feed your body with the substance you are addicted to with another way to do so.
What will happen if you run out of nicotine gums or patches? As far as I know cigarettes are way more readily available than those two things. Would you not be tempted to go and buy a pack of cigarettes if the substitutes are not available?
  
 Let’s face it – we all need stop smoking help. The process of giving up the terrible habit of filling our bodies with poisons and tar is not always an easy one.
One day we are strong and nothing could even shake our firm believe that we will never light another cigarette again, and only a day later we face that terrible monster inside of us, giving us a hundred ‘good’ reasons why we should give in, buy a pack of cigarettes, and turn ourselves once more into a perverted sort of inwardly smoked salmon.
One of the best places to find help to stop smoking is your friends and families. Ask them if they would be willing to support them. Tell them that you would love their permission to call them in your greatest hour of wavering. Rest assured, most of them won’t turn your request down.
Then, next time you are on the brink of falling back into the abyss of life full of stench and nicotine, pick up your phone, dial the number of a supporter and tell him or her how bad you feel. Very often this will be help enough; talking about what ails you can be a soothing experience in itself.
And if not: have them tell you a good reason to leave your hands off the tobacco, they will have absolutely no problem finding one – they most probably will be able to give a hundred good reasons without second thought.
So, if you need stop smoking help – don’t look too far.
Gaining a better health and higher social acceptance are undoubtedly very important quitting smoking benefits. Another area where you will profit massively if you quit consuming is tobacco is money.
The price for a pack of cigarettes varies depending on where you live. In the state of Delaware, US, a pack of cigarettes is around 4 US$, in the state of Texas it is only around 5 US$. In Sweden one pack is around 7 US$. No matter where you live, however, smoking is a very expensive habit.
Studies have shown that an average smoker consumes around 20 cigarettes a day, which – for most brands and countries – translates into one pack per day. Say you live in Dover, Delaware and consume around one pack of cigarettes a day. In a week you will have spent 28 US$ on this nasty habit. In a month it sums up to 120 US$. In a year you will have wasted a whopping 1460 US$ on smoke and all you get is an endangered health, low energy levels, bad breath, and a whole in your purse … and mind you, in most places cigarettes are way more expensive than in Delaware!
Just imagine what you could do with all that money. 1460 US$ is more than a Apple MacBook costs. It is more than most people spend on renting their apartment per month. It doesn’t take a math genius to see that having more money to spend on useful things is a one of the major quitting smoking benefits.
Oh, and in case you are in the position that you don’t have to worry about money, maybe a moral appeal might convince you: in Laos (a country in Southeast Asia), for instance, the average income per person is 400 US$ … just so you understand me correctly, that’s 400 US$ a YEAR, not a month. Ask yourself, wouldn’t it be better to quit smoking today and send the money you save to Laos to double the income of three people?
Yes, breaking the nasty habit of smoking cigarettes is a long and trying process. Yet, quite a few quitting smoking benefits can be enjoyed within only a few days or even hours after you put out your last cigarette.
Heart and Blood Pressure Dropping
Only 20 minutes after quitting your heart and blood pressure will drop. Remember, high blood pressure is a pretty serious condition which may lead to heart failure, coronary heart diseases, strokes and many other health issues. After about a month blood pressure will return to a normal level.
Carbon Monoxide Leaving the Body
Smoking poisons your body with carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is a taste- and odorless gas which is highly toxic. Within the first few hours after quitting carbon monoxide levels in your body will drop to normal. Considering that this gas is so highly poisonous and that a smoker willingly applies this poison to his body, it is easy to understand that this is a major immediate quitting smoking benefit.
Nicotine Will Leave Your Body
Within only 8 hours of not smoking the remaining nicotine will have fallen to only around 6% of the peak levels of a smoker. Just like carbon monoxide nicotine is a highly poisonous. Did you know that nicotine it only takes 0.5 milligrams of nicotine per kilogram weight for a human to be lethal? You do not want this poison in your body, quit smoking now and imagine how much better you will feel only a few hours later.
Less Stench
Let’s not beat around the bush: smoke stinks, and ‘old’ smoke lingering on your clothes, in your hair, and on your hands even more so. While this is not as serious as the poisoning of your body, smelling better certainly one of the more tangible immediate quitting smoking benefits.
Constantly remembering the quitting smoking benefits can help tremendously when your in process of giving up the nasty habit of smoking. If you own an iPhone there are quite a few applications that might support you in motivating yourself.
While I can’t say that I used them all, out of the five applications I downloaded I found iDontSmoke (app Store Link) by far the most useful and easy to use. This application will let you keep track of goals in an easy and visually appealing manner.
To do so, you simply put down the date and time you quit smoking, how many cigarettes you smoker per day, and how much a pack of cigarettes costs in your currency (of course you only have to do this only once, and not each time you start the application).
The application will then make your quitting smoking benefits tangible by telling you not onyl how many cigarettes you haven’t smoked since you quit, but also how much time has passed and how much money you saved.
The best thing, however, is that iDontSmoke lets you define goals and keep track of them. These goals can be based on a number of cigarettes not smoked, on an amount of money saved, or on the time not smoked since you quit. The main screen will then display the next goal you are going to achieve and in a separate screen you can take a look at all your achieved and future goals.
I found this application almost invaluable when I quit smoking. Having the chance to have a very specific numeric interpretation of my quitting smoking benefits was a major motivational help I wouldn’t have wanted to miss during the harder days and weeks of quitting.
(You can find more information about iDontSmoke on their website at www.ciderware.com)
Improved health is probably the foremost and the first that comes to mind amongst the many quitting smoking benefits.
For centuries people were vastly ignorant toward the negative impact smoking has on health. These days only a profound amount of denial and self-deception can convince a smoker that he or she will not be harmed by the nasty habit of smoking. Increased risk for cancer, lung diseases, heart attacks, strokes, and blood vessel diseases are only a few of the negative impacts inhaling tobacco smoke can have on your health.
And don’t be fooled, these risks are a major issue: about 50% of all smokers that don’t quit the habit will die from a disease that is directly related to smoking.
Cancer
What a lot of people don’t seem to be aware of is that a reduced risk for lung cancer is only one of may cancer-related quitting smoking benefits. Tobacco also increases the likelihood to come down with cancer of the larynx (the voice box), the throat, the esophagus, the kidney, the cervix, the bladder, and it is a risk factor for some types of leukemia.
Women and Qutting Smoking Benefits
Women are subject to a few particular risks to their health. The combination of smoke and birth control pills has shown to considerably increase the risk of stroke, heart attack, and deep vein thrombosis.
Also pregnant women that smoke are way more susceptible to miscarry or give birth to a child that is under-weight. Many medical studies have also shown that children of mothers that smoke during pregnancy tend to have mental and physical deficits.
Your Years Go Up in Smoke
Statistics show that smokers have a substantially lower life expectancy, and we are not talking about a few weeks or months here. It is estimated that male smokers forfeit around 13 years of their life, and females even 14.5 years. On top of a smoker will most likely be taken ill for a few years of his life as an effect of consuming tobacco — you literally gain years and years of health-related quality of life as one of may quitting smoking benefits.
Quit smoking today – it is not too late!
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