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Reasons Why MEN must Quit Smoking
Although there are many reasons why people quit smoking, including the
reasons listed below, our main goal is to get you to develop your OWN reasons
why YOU MUST quit. Unfortunately, many people quit only after they have
developed permanent disease from smoking. WE NEED YOU TO QUIT BEFORE THIS
HAPPENS.
For all smokers
- cost of cigarettes
- Greater feeling of well-being
- Improved ability to exercise
- May be able to work to an older age, with less illness
- may live ling enough to enjoy retirement and grandchildren
For Parents
- Increased incidence of coughing and respiratory tract infections among
chidren of smokers
- Poor role model for child
- Infants exposed to your smoke have twice the ear infections, coughs,
colds, pneumonia, and bronchitis as infants who are not exposed to second
hand smoke
For a New Smoker
For Long-term Smokers
- Decreased risk of heart disease and cancer if smoking stopped
For Smokers With a Family History of Heart Disease, Cancer, and Other
Smoking-Related Diseases
- Risk of death increased even more by smoking
For Symptomatic Adults
- Correlate current symptoms with
- Angina
- Claudication
- Shortness of Breath
- Heart-burn
- gum disease
- Osteoporosis
- Sore Throats
- Ulcers
- Upper respiratory tract infection and cough
For Adults Without Symptoms
- Bad Breath
- Cost of Cigarettes
- Cost of sick time
- Inconvenience and social unacceptability
- Lifespan shortened by 5 to 8 years
- Six times the risk of emphysema
- Ten times the risk of lung cancer
- Twice the risk of heart disease
- Prematurely wrinkles the face and increases the amount of wrinkles
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