what advantages have i got since giving up smoking apart from avoidin such illness,s as lung cancer etc?
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You won't smell like smoke, your teeth won't continue to yellow...\n\nSmoking has no advantages, so it's not going to make matters worse if you quit.
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Dear Friend, \n\nGood on you that you want to quit. YOU CAN DO IT!!! Can a smoker overcome the physical addiction and habitual behaviors of tobacco use? The answer is a resounding yes. Not only is quitting possible, but it is also highly beneficial. It is never too late to stop using tobacco. Quitting at any age and in any state of health improves one’s health.\nBecause no single condition leads to tobacco dependence, no single solution cures smokers of their dependence on cigarettes. Some people are able to quit smoking easily, while some find quitting so difficult that they do not quit even when facing tobacco’s serious health problems. Smokers who believe that quitting smoking will be easy or that God will make it easy for them may become disillusioned if they experience the normal withdrawal symptoms or if they relapse back to smoking. Therefore, it is wise for smokers to take time to plan this important change carefully and prayerfully.\n\nSuccessful treatment can include at least three components: (1) counseling and advice from a skilled, knowledgeable professional, with a focus on developing problem-solving skills, overcoming barriers to quitting, and preventing relapse; (2) support from friends and family members; and (3) the possible correct, careful use of legal stop-smoking medications, including nicotine replacement and other drugs tested for safety and effectiveness.\n\nA local hospital or clinic may offer a stop-smoking group, and a health professional may be able to provide expert advice about medications that can help ease the physical and emotional discomfort of withdrawal symptoms. A nicotine replacement medication helps control withdrawal symptoms over a period of weeks or months while the ex-smoker gradually becomes accustomed to living without tobacco. 11 Nicotine replacement products are not designed to replace nicotine permanently; rather, the ex-smoker tapers off the nicotine replacement medication over a period of weeks.\n\nThe least successful way to stop smoking is to try to quit all at once, or “cold turkey,” without any kind of help. Quitting this way may seem like a good idea at the time, but statistics show that only a very small percentage of those who attempt to quit this way will still be smoke-free a year later. The work of quitting smoking involves not only the initial actions of becoming tobacco-free, but also the lifetime task of remaining tobacco-free.\n\nCheers
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That's a very low risk, I would say (cutting out the cigars would help) but a lot of this is genetic - some people drink and smoke all their lives and never get cancer and some people eat organic food, never drink, never smoke and get cancer.  It's the way it is.  However, you'll be less likely to get cancer if you live a healthy lifestyle.
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the sooner you quit, the sooner you stop damaging your body and the sooner your body can heal.  It is never too late to stop smoking... unless you are already dead
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depends on how long you smoked but probably never doesnt mean you shouldnt. dont make things worse; a million other side effects besides your lung damage will be avoided.
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The benefits of quitting smoking are immediate!\n\nWithin the first 24 hours of your last cigarette, your blood pressure will drop back down, and your pulse rate will decrease to normal.\n\nWithin the first 48 hours, you will be able to smell and taste better.\n\nWithin 72 hours, your circulation and the level of carbon monoxide in your blood will be much healthier.\n\nThe list goes on and on.  Don't get discouraged!  As well as the long-term benefits of better health, lower risk of cancer, etc., you will see benefits at every step along the road.
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It all depends on your dependency to the physical and mental aspects of smoking. I quit on January 1st. I ended up with a horrible flu and clinical depression. The flu is a "good" thing though. Your body has to repair the damage caused by the smoking. Flu-like symptoms are rare, but it is usually coughing, shivers, cold sweats. If you take Wellbutrin to help then you might have night terrors from the medication. The length depends on your social situation. If you have friends who smoke or like to go bar hopping (in states where indoor smoking isnt banned) then your cravings will last a long time. Become a hermit and youre fine, lol. But I don't recommend that. Part of the quitting process is learning to look cigarettes in the eye and not smoke them.
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No doubt the reason you got the sniffles when you didn't smoke was because your body was clearing out all the gunk from your respiratory system - this is common, and it is the begining of getting back to good health and a longer life.  Don't delude yourself that smoking has any benefits, unfortunately any fleeting pleasure is offset by continued niggling guilt, social ostracizing, huge waste of money going to mega rich tobacco cos, and a 50% chance of suffering and dying from the worlds most preventable cause.\nThere's a lot of free info and interesting stuff, plus ways to quit at http://www.quitguide.com
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Good for you for quitting smoking. When I quit before, I had pneumonia and after two weeks I had no desire to smoke until someone insisted I have a cigarette then I was hooked again. Everyone is different as to how long the cravings last but, I think after a week or two the cravings will be less often. Take showers, walks, and exercise to help you through this trying time. Eat fruits too. Try to avoid coffee or the things you associate with smoking. Get a punching bag and put it in your basement or garage when you get the craving go take your frustrations out on the punching bag. There are so many benefits to quitting and no benefits to smoking. Good Luck
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I do smoke.  There really are no benefits to smoking.  It is relaxing and it calms my nerves after a rough day.  I am orally fixated to it.  I love smoking, I love holding the cigarette, taking drags, I love everything about it.  I am addicted to cigarettes in everyway possible.  I actually started smoking in 7th grade because I had a boyfriend who smoked.  Then I smoked on and off all through high school but as soon as I turned 18 and was able to buy them I started regularly.  Also, a lot of people in my family smoke including my mom and dad so it was unfortunatley an easy habit to pick up.
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When I gave up smoking I took horseradish and garlic capsules and they loosened the congestion on my lungs and I was able to cough up all the phlegm and get rid of it quickly. They can be bought at a health food store or chemist. Hope this helps and good on you for giving up.
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Your risk of several types of cancer are increased, and more so if you have a genetic predisposition to cancer causing cells. Besides that and, of course, the fact that it isn't legal for you to smoke, you are young and the damage you do to your body will reverse itself if you quit. Your are changing your body's ability to breathe, distribute oxygen to your brain and other organs, circulate blood properly and about thirty other things that your body does involuntarily to keep you alive. So, you need to ask yourself, why do you smoke? While at your age some people (also mostly your age) will form a certain opinion about what kind of person you are, once you hit about the twenty to twenty-two age group and older, most people think you just look weak and ignorant for not knowing what you're doing to your body and too lazy to help yourself (much in the same way most people view those who are morbidly obese). The fact that you're smoking such a small amout says to me that you don't need it, you just like it. I know. We can smell our own. When I quit I promised myself I would light up one or two whenever the mood struck me-this idea helped me quit cold turkey. I had one a couple of months later, a few a couple of months after that, another one about six months later, etc. The more time that passes the less I feel like I like it so the less I smoke. But the only reason I ever did smoke was because I liked it, the feel, the flavor, the smell even. If you can't pinpoint why you do it at all-then why do you do it at all?
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should be fair for all - i gave up smoking 4 years ago and don't like to be in smokey atmospheres at all now - but that's my choice so i can avoid going to places i know will be smoke-filled.
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There are so many things that smoking does to the body. The really sad fact is that it does not just hurt the smoker. It really does effect all persons around them. \nA smoker has increased risk of respiratory and vascular complications. Smoking actually creates a tar substance in the lungs and decreases the persons capacity to take in oxygen. Also smokers veins and arteries are constricted from chemicals in the cigarettes. This puts them at a higher risk for blood clot causing stroke.\nMothers who smoke when they are pregnant usually have smaller babies. A nonsmokers umbilical cord (which supplies nourishment to the baby) is usually about wide as a roll of quarters and the smokers umbilical cord is about as thick as a pencil. \nChildren who grow up in the home of a smoker are at higher risk for developing asthma and/or allergies. They can develop lung cancer just as easily as the actual smoker can. Not to mention that growing up with parents who smoke puts them at higher risk for becoming smokers themselves. \nI have a grandfather that smokes. He is eighty. The last several years he has been on oxygen. He wakes up at night because he can't get his breath. He has a barrel chest because that is what your body does to try and help you get more oxygen. Your lungs try to get bigger so they can take in more oxygen because the cigarettes have destroyed portions of the lungs over the many years of smoking. Some people would say he has made it to eighty and that is a long time for a smoker to live. You have to keep in mind that most of his family lived into or close to their 100's. They say that every cigarette takes five minutes off your life. There is no telling how long he could have lived if he had just been able to stop smoking. \nYou may not be able to talk him into quitting. Maybe you could talk him into atleast not smoking in the house and changing his clothes before holding the baby. This will atleast help the people who have to live with this be a little healthier. Good luck to you!
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Ok, here's the deal...\n\nWhen you smoke, the nicotin and another substances that tobacco contains mingle with the chemistry of your lung cells, changing their functions and live processes.\n\nWhen you smoke frequently, the chemistry in your cells is so tampered with, that they start multiplying like mad, obstructing the healthy lung cells.\n\nThat´s lung cancer.\n\nOh, and when you smoke, the lung cells also start to die, beyond repair, reducing your capcity of breathe, wich also reduces your lifespan. I know that for a fact that my granny died of that :-((.
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you can get cancer without ever smoking or chewing.  you dont have any more to worry about than before your risky adventure.  Short term usage has only been known to cause retracted testicles.
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THE BEST ADVICE I CAN GIVE IS DON'T START SMOKING,  but have look at this link . but if you want toxins to sop entering you body ,,stop breathing ,eating, drinking ..ect\n\nlol    good luck