2022-03-11

National No Smoking Day 2022

Smoking is bad for your health.

If you like so many of us in the United States are overweight — it further compromises your cardiovascular system beyond that imposed by the extra corpulence you may be carrying.

Dying to Smoke    
Today is National No Smoking Day. It focuses on awareness regarding the dangers of smoking.

This day attempts to spotlight resources that are available to help people decide to try and quit as well as trying to offer encouragement and support in a useful and non-judgmental way.

Trying to convince others that you don't smoke when you do is quite a bit on the unscrupulous and immoral side of the equation.

My sister smokes and INSISTS that she doesn't as if she didn't reek to high heaven from the habit.

If you don't smoke don't start. If you do smoke stop.

☠  Smoking can cause lung disease by damaging your airways and the small air exchange sacs called alveoli found in your lungs.
☠  Lung diseases caused by smoking include COPD, which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Cigarette smoking causes most cases of lung cancer.
☠  Smoking makes you look older, imparting facial wrinkles and premature aging of the skin.
☠  Smoking damages your teeth and yellows both them and your fingernails.
☠  Smoking leads to gum disease and ulcers as well as dental infections which can result in tooth loss.
☠  Smoking imparts odor to you that remains in your hair, clothes, conveyance, and home. It precedes you when you enter a room so everyone knows you smoke even if you lie about it vehemently as does my sister.
☠  That smokers cough results in phlegm and can lead to chronic bronchitis.
☠  Many smokers develop COPD. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is common and some 80% of cases of COPD are the direct result of smoking.
☠  Smoking affects your immune system and restricts your ability to fight off infections. Smokers have more respiratory infections than non smokers.
☠  Nicotine causes constriction of the blood vessesl and increases risk for high blood pressure, stroke, and heart attack.
☠  Smokers increase their susceptibility to heart disease with smokers accounting for 20% of all deaths from heart disease and 70% higher mortality from coronary heart disease compared to those who do not smoke. Smoking a pack a day doubles your risk of a heart attack.
☠  Smoking increases insulin resistance in diabetics. It causes a rapid increase in the progression of type 2 diabetes. If you smoke and are diabetic you become increasingly at risk for kidney disease, eye problems, and heart attack.
☠  Smoking increases your chances of developing cancer. Not JUST lung cancer, but throat cancer, mouth cancer, kidney cancer, esophageal cancer, and bladder cancer.
☠  Smoking negatively affects your family's health. Second hand smoke accounts from 37,000 to 40,000 deaths each year. Children become at risk for chronic respiratory conditions when they are subjected to second hand smoke. Bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, and ear infections all increase in those exposed to second hand smoke. Infants are more at risk for SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome.