I Will Quit Smoking – With determination anyone could do it!

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There are many reasons why a smoker wants to quit smoking. Apart from the usual lung cancers, now smokers must beware of oral cancer. If you love your mouth, your teeth and you love to eat, you must take note that smoking can cause your gums to recede, the roots of your tooth exposed and losing the ability to taste. I means that your gum is weak, you are going to lose all your teeth soon and you cannot taste your favourite food anymore.

When people lose their teeth in accidents, they rely on the dentures or implants to improve their appearance. However, the problem with implant is that smoking can reduce the amount of blood reaching the implant so the implant might not be effective at all. Smoking does not effect teeth implant only but more than that. Simple procedures such as filling and tooth removal can be ineffective all because of smoking. Antibiotics and other treatments are totally useless for someone who smokes.

According to a study, approximately 32% of smokers need to have the filling replaced, another 10.1% smokers need tooth extraction and 22.5% smokers need dental cleaning. Another fact about smoking is it can increase the build up of plaque and tartar so if you really care about your oral care and treatment, please quit smoking and you will have better oral treatment and the treatment will be effective so you are not wasting your money and time while enjoying a better appearance.

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Premature death is define as death that occurs before the average age of death within a population. For example, the average age for all causes of death in US is around 70 years old but the age is reduced to 35 for people who smoke cigarettes. Cardiovasular disease is US no. 1 cause of death in US. Cardiovascular diseases such as heart problems can be prevented by quit smoking.

According to a study being conducted in US, cigarette smoking is responsible for almost 440,000 premature death of a total of 2.4 million deaths annually. This is indeed a shocking fact but cigarette smoking has been rising instead of decreasing and if this continues, there will be even more premature deaths and death itself alone.

The death rate for men who smoke is 60% compared to those who don’t smoke whereas for women it is as high as 90%. The premature deaths can be prevented if they quit smoking. However, because it is difficult to kick the habit, there are many people who are reluctant to give up smoking and embrace a healthier living.Some of them give up after few trials in the beginning.

With so many treatments available to help die hard smokers to quit smoking, there seem to have progress with more and more people joining the quit smoking campaign. There are more and more quit smoking programs coming up and more under research. You have a choice whether to live longer and a healthier life or to live a short and unfulfilling life. It is time to throw the butt away and start to live a new lifestyle, without cigarette.

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Children of mothers who had smoked while pregnant ran double the risk of developing asthma before the age of four. A new study from Swedish Karolinska Institutet shows the consequences of smoking during pregnancy.

It is a well known fact that babies are harmed by tobacco smoke in numerous ways, but it has always been difficult to separate the effects of the mother smoking during pregnancy and passive smoking after birth.

A new study from the Swedish institute Karolinska shows that smoking during pregnancy increases the chances of the child developing asthma. The study showed that children of mothers who had smoked while pregnant ran double the risk of developing asthma before the age of four. There was a clear correlation between the number of cigarettes smoked and the risk of developing asthma.

The study also showed that passive smoking in early childhood increases the risk of allergy. Four-year olds who were exposed to tobacco smoke when they were two months old had allergy antibodies against one or more allergens in the blood, which were more often than their coevals from non-smoking homes.

Smoking during pregnancy is least common amongst the higher educated. Of the 4 000 interviewed mothers, 7 per cent of those with university-level education said that they had smoked while pregnant. Among those who had opted out of tertiary or secondary education, the corresponding number was 20 per cent. The data applies to mothers of children born between 1994 and 1996.

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