Please share an interesting fact about the benefits of quitting smoking.

Did: Did you know that smoking can lead to a decreased rate of healing in broken bones?

Each: Each cigarette has a nicotine dose that constricts arterial flow by 50% for one hour.

Nicotine: Nicotine deadens taste buds, supresses receptors in the nasal lining and promotes tooth decay.

Quit: Quit smoking. In 10 years your lung cancer risk reduces to 'normal'.

Smokers: Smokers do not heal as well as nonsmokers making surgical recovery harder and longer.

Smoking: Smoking has been linked to progression of cataracts.

Smoking: Smoking worsens macular degeneration. Try to quit!

Tobacco: Tobacco use is negative. You can't do just a little and be ok, it's all bad and will cause harm.

You'll: You'll live longer if you don't smoke, and you'll breathe better, however many years you live.

Smokers: Smokers are certainly not "cooler" or more calm than nonsnmokers.

Nicotine: Nicotine is addicting and powerful vaso constrictor; decreases blood flow by 50% for an hour/cig.

Hypnotherapy: Hypnotherapy is a reasonable treatment to try if you are struggling with smoking cessation.

Once: Once you quit, most of the risk factors reverse after a few years.

Set: Set a quit date and work backwards to get there.

Electronic: Electronic cigarettes, nicotine gum, suck on cloves, hypnosis (plan to go 10x).

Smoking: Smoking increases your risk of cancer of the esophagus, pancreas, colon, lung, bladder...

When: When reaching for a cigarette, give your honey a squeeze or a call to say you love her/him instead!

While: While not every one who smokes will get lung cancer, smoking one pack/day for 8 years can cause copd.

2-5: 2-5 years after quitting, risk factors for various cancers, stroke, & heart disease drop dramatically.

A: A pack a day is 70, 000 drags a year – that’s a hard habit to break!

You: You till truly enjoy and savor the taste and smell of foods again after you quit smoking!

Smoking: Smoking is the number one cause of preventable death in the United States.

Nicotine: Nicotine and cigarette smoke damage cells. This can lead to tumors that often start in the lungs.

Smoking: Smoking makes it easier for clots to form that can block the flow of blood, which may cause a stroke.

If: If you quit smoking before you are forty, you will add around 10 more years to your life.

Nicotine: Nicotine is addictive; it has a stimulating and calming effect at the same time.

Within: Within 1 year of quitting smoking, your risk of a heart attack is half the risk of when you smoked!

After: After 5 years of being smoke-free, your risk of having a stroke is the same as a never-smoker!

After: After having not smoked for a year, you have saved over $1500 (at least)!

Smoking: Smoking kills more people than alcohol, aids, motor vehicle accidents, drugs, murders, and suicides combined: 400, 000/year.

Smokers: Smokers may spend 9% of their annual income on cigarettes, profoundly affect their family finances.

70%: 70% of smokers want to quit. 35% try each year. Only about 7% remain smoke-free at 1 year.

Smokers:: Smokers: kentucky 33%, washington (& most of the U.S.) 22%, california 16%, utah 12%.

Nicotine: Nicotine reaches the brain in 10 seconds. Effects last 2-3 hours. Short action makes it addictive.

People: People who quit smoking in their 40s live 10 years longer than their smoking friends.

People: People who quit smoking in their 50's live 6 years longer than their smoking friends.

People: People who quit smoking in their 60's live 3 years longer than their smoking friends.

15: 15 years after quitting smoking, your risk of coronary heart disease is the same as a non-smokers!

Participating: Participating in smoking cessation treatment can double your chances of successfully quitting.

Gums,: Gums, chantix, or patches are no more effective than willpower and a plan. Avoid smoking situations.

Oral: Oral fixation? Consider chewing sugar-free gum when working to quit smoking.

"If: "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again". The average smoker quits 9-11 times before it takes.

One: One in five deaths in the usa are related to tobacco use.

Fertility: Fertility problems? Smoking > ½ pack per day of cigarettes is a risk factor for infertility.

Teens: Teens who smoke are 3x more likely to drink alcohol (per us surgeon general).

Teens: Teens who smoke tobacco have 8 times the risk of smoking marijuana (per the us surgeon general).

If: If you & your spouse both smoke, it more than doubles the risk that your child will smoke.

“I: “i only smoke cigars.” this increases risk for oral, laryngeal & esophageal cancer 4 to 10 fold.

Addictions: Addictions often require an intense exchange. Find a new action.

Myth:: Myth: patients who quit always gain weight. Not true!

I: Myths: i cannot quit smoking. It's too late to quit now. Smoking is no big deal.

Smoking: Smoking increases the risk for bladder cancer; about 50% of all cases occur in current or former smokers.

Nicorette (nicotine gum): Nicorette (nicotine gum) gum/nicotine patches. Suck on sugarless peppermints and lollipops. Best thing for health.

If: If you smoke, then quitting smoking is probably the single best way to improve your health!

Smokers: Smokers are three times more likely than non-smokers to lose all their teeth.

Smoking: Smoking decreases bone healing after an injury.

According: According to aaos smoking has serious negative effects on your bones and joints.

Myth:everyone: Myth: everyone gains weight. Fact: many people quitting smoking gain, but some don't. Average +5lbs.

Most: Most former smokers tried several times to quit before they were successful, don't get discouraged.

Within: Within a year of quitting smoking your risk of a heart attack is cut in half !

Studies: Studies have linked tobacco use to increased risk of rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis.

Stopping: Stopping smoking will improve your sense of smell, taste, and reduce bad breath.

Smoking: Smoking makes macular degeneration worse! quit now!

Nicotine: Nicotine replacement therapy and bupropion (wellbutrin) both increase your success at quitting smoking.

Quitting: Quitting smoking will reduce your child's number of respiratory and ear infections.

Playing: Playing in park versus dealing with ear infections due to second hand smoke. Make your child happy!

Menthol: Menthol flavored cigarettes may pose a greater health risk than regular cigarettes.

Many: Many of the harmful cardiovascular effects of smoking go away within a year of quitting.

The: The cigarettes' cost is the most important factor for smoking. Where its high there is less smoking.

Where: Where the cost of cigarettes high there is less smoking: it is the most important factor for smoking.

If: If you want to strengthen your bones, stop smoking, and start exercising.

Sense: Sense of smell improves, after stopping smoking.

Better: Better exercise tolerance and stamina.

Your: Your clothes will smell good.

Cigarette: Cigarette smoke is associated with recurrent ear infections, colds, pneumonia, wheezing, and cancer.

Chantix: Chantix has been up to 60 % effective in smoking cessation, please read side effects and warnings.

Federal: Federal anti-smoking campaign led many to quit.

Anti-smoking: Anti-smoking campaigns save lives. They pay for themselves quickly in reduced health costs.