Why You Should Quit Smoking for Yourself

There are plenty of reasons you should quit smoking for yourself.  A couple of them even do tie into quitting for others, but with a slightly different slant.  For example, you might stop smoking because of your kids, but not for them.  By this I mean that you might want to quit so you can enjoy spending more years with them, rather than because you don’t want to see them get hurt by your early death.  This may sound selfish, but you have to think about yourself when you are trying to quit.  You have to convince yourself there are many reasons to quit that will benefit you personally.

Of course, there are the obvious health benefits involved with quitting.  If you quit smoking, you put years back onto your life.  This is because you have now effectively reduced your chances of developing high blood pressure, heart disease, throat cancer, lung cancer, and emphysema.  You have also lessened your likelihood of having a heart attack and of developing gum disease and ulcers, just to name a few.

If you aren’t feeling too concerned about the inside of your body, consider the outside.  Smoking makes your fingers and teeth yellow, not to mention the bad smell that permeates your body and clothing.  Of course, you probably don’t realize just how bad it smells because your sense of taste and smell has both been dulled by smoking!  Fortunately, quitting will help bring back these small joys of life. 

In addition, smoking makes your skin wrinkle faster, particularly on your face.  Not only that, the notion that smoking makes a person look “cool” has been gone for a long time.  In fact, the majority of people are less attracted to people who smoke than the other way around.

Of course, there are also the financial rewards of quitting smoking.  Most smokers will save literally thousands of dollars every year by simply quitting smoking.  Just imagine all of the things you can do for you if you stop smoking.  Perhaps you have seen some new outfits or shoes you would like to buy at the end of a year of successfully not smoking.  Maybe you can purchase a new entertainment center, or buy that new transmission for your project car.  Perhaps you can take that vacation you have always wanted to take.  If you managed to win the battle against this addiction and quit smoking, go ahead and spoil yourself – you deserve it!  Consider it a celebration of saving your own life.

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