I’m a Quitter!

What is better help to to quit, than a list of valid reasons why? A powerful tool to quit smoking is making a list of your own personal reasons of why you should quit. Carry your list with you everywhere to remind yourself.

Why should you stop smoking?

1. Improve your personal appearance by eliminating such things as stained teeth and fingers, bad breath, coughing, and smoking odor on clothes. Prevent wrinkles and keep your skin nice.
2. Regain control of your life and behavior. Be free!
3. Regain your sense of taste and smell, feel more energized and active, sleep better, and eliminate ‘smokers cough’ or wheezing.
4. Save tons of money! (Screw the tax increase!) Find out HERE how much money you’ll be saving.
5. Reduce risks to unborn children and provide a healthier environment for children and others.
6. Reduce health risks, such as the risk of heart disease, cancer, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis. You do not want a heart attack or to have problems breathing.
   
7. Increase productivity by regaining the time you used to spend maintaining your smoking habit.
8. Avoid possible injury or upset to others by such things as smoking in restaurants or dropping ashes on them.
9. Your life expectancy will increase.
10. Feeling guilty for the physical damage you are doing to your body and the second hand smoke you are exposing others to.
11. In the long term, smoking could damage your circulation leading to gangrene and even amputation.
12. Tar on your lungs is disgusting! This clip shows the result that 400 cigarettes have on your lungs: about 7200 mgr of a black and sticky substance called tar, which contains a number of other deadly elements.
13. Lung Cancer. Lung cancer kills more women than breast cancer. Breast cancer will claim the lives of 41,000 women this year, while 68,000 women will die of lung cancer.
14. Heart disease, heart attacks, and stroke
15. Cancer of the mouth, larynx, esophagus, lips, and tongue
16. Cancer of the pancreas, kidney, bladder, stomach, colon, and liver
17. Peripheral vascular disease (poor circulation)
18. Asthma in children
19. Osteoporosis
20. Cataracts, and a higher risk for eye problems. Exposure to cigarette smoke doubles your risk of developing macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness.
21. Peptic ulcer disease (stomach ulcers)
22. Uterine and cervical cancer
23. Premature wrinkle. Fewer wrinkles in general.
24. Infertility, impotence. Smoking affects circulation with less blood flow to your genitals. Arousal for both men and women is affected.
25. Dangerous chemicals in tobacco smoke include: acetone, mercury, lead, nicotine, cadmium, carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, urethane, arsenic, phenol, formaldehyde, and DDT.
26. You won’t STINK anymore! Hooray!
27. General fatigue and headaches will subside.
28. Smoking screws with your sleep. You will have much less problems sleeping when you aren’t smoking. Smokers are four times as likely to report feeling unrested after a night’s sleep.
29. The fear that someday your children or others may have to care for you due to the ravishes you put your body through with your smoking.
30. Feeling limited in where you can go publicly now that cigarettes are banned in many places and states. This takes the enjoyment out of going out.
31. The presence of smoke filled rooms can create a barrier that separates you from those you love.
32. To regain self-esteem and to feel good about life again.
33. Stop being addicted to nicotine. Break yourself free from a ridiculous addiction.
34. The feelings of being weak and needy that goes along with nicotine dependency will subside.
35. You’ll be around to see your grandchildren. In time, you’ll have the same life expectancy as a non-smoker!
36. Your breath will smell better than your dog’s!
37. You can exercise more, walk up a flight of stairs, or jog without feeling out of breath. Cigarette smoking causes carbon monoxide to seep into your blood, which limits the amount of oxygen it can carry to your heart, lungs, and muscles.
38. Your pets won’t get emphysema either.
39. No more burning holes in your clothes, or others.
40. Your car won’t reek. And there won’t be a gross film on the windows.
41. Smoking speeds up mental decline and leads to Alzheimer’s disease. The rate of mental decline is up to five times faster in smokers than in nonsmokers.
42. Smoking increases the risk of depression. If you are depressed, there’s an easy cure, QUIT!
43. Smoking related cancer research have used animals for a long time as test subjects. Don’t help those people with their pay checks!
44. Women smokers have been found to lose 2.3% to 3.3% of bone mineral density for every 10 pack-years of tobacco use. The effects are even worse in postmenopausal women.
45. Smokers have a nearly 70% greater likelihood of developing hearing loss than nonsmokers.
46. Quit smoking so you will be more patient.  Smoking addiction raises irritation levels.
47. Quit smoking so you will be more calm.  Addiction causes anxiety that smoking temporarily relieves.
48. Your loved ones won’t have to worry so much about you. I don’t know about you, but my mother worries SO MUCH that I smoke. Every time I talk to her on the phone she asks if I’m still smoking.
49. Studies have shown that daily smoking is linked to the risk of developing psoriasis. The higher the number of cigarettes over 20 smoked per day, the greater that risk.
50. You will be able to drink less coffee for the same buzz. Smokers’ bodies clear caffeine 56% more quickly than nonsmokers’. That’s why you should cut your caffeine intake in half when you quit—or risk some serious irritability and insomnia.
51. Being on the pill becomes a lot safer!!! If you’re on the Pill and smoke, you should cut out one or the other. The Pill is not recommended for smokers because oral contraceptives carry a risk of clots, heart attacks, and strokes; those risks are increased if you smoke.
52. Slow the progression from HIV to AIDS. HIV-positive people who smoke appear to have a faster progression time to AIDS than those who don’t smoke. The effect is likely a result of smoking’s impact on the immune system.
53. You may be able to cut down on your doses of medication. Smoking affects the liver enzymes that process certain drugs, so smokers sometimes need to take higher doses to get the same effect.
54. You’ll cut your risk for Crohn’s Disease. Smokers are four times more likely as those who never smoked to develop this chronic—sometimes debilitating—disease, which can be painful, causes frequent diarrhea, and can require intestinal surgery.
55. If you’ve smoked for 20 years, you’re 70% more likely than a nonsmoker to have acid reflux.
56. No more loosing your lighters, lugging around cigarette packs and breath mints. You can have a smaller purse or free up your pockets!
57. Enjoy your food more. Smoking diminishes the taste of food and the pleasure of eating.
58. Cigarette smoke creates persistent yellow stains on painted walls that take a concentrated effort to remove.
59. Men who smoke are twice as likely to become bald as men who don’t smoke.
60. Be more productive at work. A study in the Netherlands showed that smokers took an average of 11 more sick days a year than nonsmokers.
61. Cut your carbon footprint. A Belgian University study from the 1990s cited deforestation (to make way for tobacco farming) and wood burning (to cure the tobacco) as negative factors in the ecology of developing countries.
62. Spend less time at the dentist! According to the American Dental Association, smoking puts you at greater risk for all kinds of dental problems, including oral cancer and gum disease. It also takes longer for your dentist to clean all the stains off your teeth at your checkups. Wouldn’t you rather be doing, well, anything other than sitting in a dentist’s chair?
63. You’ll be nagged by non-smoker to quit no more!
64. According to the 2006 Surgeon General’s Report, there are more than 50 carcinogens in secondhand smoke.
65. Your wounds will heal faster. Several studies have found that smokers do not heal as well after surgeries such as face lifts, tooth extractions, and periodontal procedures.
66. Your baby will be safer. Exposure to secondhand smoke is linked to a higher risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
67. Smoking may advance the arrival of menopause in women by several years.
68. Even if they can get it up, men who smoke cigarettes have a lower sperm count and motility and increased abnormalities in sperm shape and function than men who don’t smoke.
69. Cut down on your cadmium, arsenic, N-nitrosamines, and formaldehyde. Cigarette smoke contains some 4,000 chemical agents.
70. Earn more money! Smokers earn anywhere from 4% to 11% less than nonsmokers. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) National Work rights Institute estimates that there are more than 6,000 companies in the U.S. that attempt to regulate off-duty smoking and other private behavior.
71. Get more pleasure out of life. No matter what the cigarette makers say about tobacco-induced coolness, bonhomie, cowboy-ruggedness, independence, and sexiness, it’s mostly nonsense. Scientists at the Peninsula Medical School in the UK assessed the well-being of nearly 10,000 people over the age of 50 and found that smokers in the group reported lower than average levels of pleasure and less satisfaction with their lives than the nonsmokers.
72. Stop being a bad influence on kids. Children of smokers are twice as likely to smoke. Exposure to secondhand smoke, even low amounts, hurts kids’ cognitive skills and is linked to increased behavioral problems.
73. Smoking compromises saliva flow and function. Saliva is important for cleaning the lining of the teeth and mouth and protecting teeth from decay.
74. If you quit, it will be easier for your partner to quit. Several studies have found that it’s harder to quit when you live with someone who smokes.
75. Be warmer in the winter! No more standing in the snow outside bars and restaurants.
76. Hold onto your marbles longer. A 2007 Dutch study of 7,000 people published in the journal Neurology concluded that current smoking increases the risk of dementia. Past smoking doesn’t. At the time, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation quoted a researcher as saying that “increasingly as we age, [smoking] is a major threat to the health of your brain.”
77. Improve your chances of getting pregnant if you are trying. Compared with nonsmokers, female smokers have a higher incidence of infertility and take longer to conceive.Cigarette smoking harms a woman’s ovaries, and the degree of harm increases with the number of cigarettes and length of time a woman smokes. Smoking appears to speed up the loss of eggs and reproductive function in women.
78. And improve your chances of having a healthy pregnancy. The chemicals in cigarette smoke have been shown to interfere with the ability of cells in the ovary to make estrogen. These chemicals also cause a woman’s eggs (oocytes) to be more prone to genetic abnormalities. Smoking is strongly associated with an increased risk of spontaneous miscarriage and possibly ectopic pregnancy. Pregnant smokers are more likely to have underweight and premature babies than pregnant nonsmokers.
79. Think about the extra time you’ll have to do other things. If it takes six minutes to smoke a cigarette, that works out at two hours a day for a 20-a-day smoker. That’s not including time spent emptying ashtrays, searching for lighters, buying cigarettes, checking you’ve got enough…
80. Smoking doesn’t resolve any problems, it just seems that way.
81. Your family will be proud of you!
82. No more dizziness and nausea from smoking too many cigarettes.
83. The end of  mini-withdrawals during the day, every day. No more constantly not feeling satisfied.
84. Smoking clouds the mind. Literally.
85. No more out of the way late-night trips to the gas station because you have run out.
86. No more getting smoke in your eyes! Or burning your lips on a hot filter.
87. In the book The HPV Vaccine Controversy, author Dr ShobhaKrishnan warns that smoking can make existing HPVbody and even cause HPV-related diseases because smoking weakens the immune system. S infections persist in the
88. Save your skin! Besides just wrinkles, According to Kori Ellis, author of 8 Healthy skincare tips, studies show that the skin of cigarette smokers ages more than twice as fast as that of non-smokers. Smoking dehydrates your skin and depletes it of essential nutrients. She suggests that you detoxify your skin by quitting smoking and/or limiting your exposure to second hand smoke and other pollutants.
89. You can prevent fire. Cigarettes are responsible for about 25% of deaths from residential fires, causing nearly 1,000 fire-related deaths and 3,300 injuries each year.
90. You won’t be feeding into the big tobacco companies and paying their paychecks anymore. They are just going to use that money to try and get your kids hooked. Visit the online Legacy Tobacco Documents Library to read memos and reports tracing the real-life efforts of tobacco companies to advertise and market cigarettes in the years before and after the historic 1964 Surgeon General’s report declaring smoking a health hazard.
91. You won’t have to get into weird conversations with people just because you are both standing outside smoking.
92. You’ll enjoy everything more: You won’t be anxiously awaiting the end of the movie, dinner with your friends, or your child’s piano recital so you can go smoke.
93. Employers are increasingly offering incentives—such as gift cards, premium discounts, or cash—to employees who participate in smoking cessation programs.
94. Smoking doesn’t really make you thin…Smoking increases food cravings in women, particularly for starchy carbohydrates and high-fat foods
95. If Obama can do it, so can you! Well, at least he’s trying. The President took some heat in early 2007 from, among others, Fox News, causing the BBC to comment derisively on the “McCarthyite” aspects of the story. (Scroll way down on that BBC link.)
96. Crash your car less often. In a 1990 study published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health, smokers had a 1.5-fold increase in risk for motor vehicle crashes over nonsmokers.
97. Contribute more to the nation’s productivity. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that premature deaths caused by smoking cost the U.S. roughly $92 billion in lost productivity each year.
98. There are SO MANY websites, books, programs, etc. that can help you. Try this one.
99. Smoking depletes your body of vitamin C and Zinc, which keep you healthy.
100. You will live longer!!!Every cigarette you smoke cuts 11 minutes off your expected life span.