Is Smoking must for your life?

Cigarette?

Cigarettes are made mainly from tobacco, the dried leaf of the plant Nicotiana tabacum. The main components of cigarettes include nicotine, a powerful drug that quickly leads to addiction. Carbon monoxide, the same gas that comes out of car exhausts, is the principal gas in cigarette smoke. Other chemicals include many that have links with cancer in humans, such as arsenic, benzene, cadmium, and formaldehyde.

What happens when you smoke?

When you take a puff on a cigarette, many things happen. in just a few seconds, nicotine is delivered to the brain. This stimulates the body's central nervous system, increasing the heart rate and blood pressure.

What happens Pregnant Woman smoking?

Pregnant women who smoke are putting the baby's health at serious risk. The baby is m oe likely to be born prematurely, or to die in the uterus (womb) or shortly after birth. Babies born to smokers are often smaller. They get less oxygen in the womb, which makes their hearts beat faster and slows their growth.

Bad Symptoms when you smoking?

Lung cancer

Emphysema (An often fatal lung disease, which destroys the walls of the air sacs).

Stroke (Blood loss to the brain. Often fatal or severely disabling).
Lowered fertility
Heart Attack
Tobacco amblyopia
Cancer of the cervix (in women)
Peripheral vascular disease (disease of the arteries in the leg)
Gangrene (Death and decay of part of the body due to loss of blood supply when fatty deposits, caused by smoking, clog up the arteries.
Chronic bronchitis (Inflammation of the bronchial tubes leading into the lungs,resulting in coughing, wheezing, and fever.
Mouth and throat cancer
Aortic aneurysm (A swelling of the main artery in the body, with the risk of rupture and fatal blood loss).
Peptic ulcers (Raw and painful areas in the intestines.

Free of cost smoking! (passive smoking)

For most people, breathing in other people's cigarette smoke causes minor symptoms like watering eyes, itching nose and throat, and dizziness. But for some the effects are more serious. Babies and young children may suffer from more infections and serious chest conditions like bronchitis and pneumonia. People exposed to passive smoking over long periods are also at a 10 to 30 percent increased risk of death from lung cancer.

People may choose to smoke because they believe it makes them look grown-up or sophisticated. Very often these people become addicted to tobacco and then are unable to quit smoking when they want to.

All smokers know they would be better off if they gave up. Unfortunately, kicking the habit is not easy. Nicotine is as addictive as heroin, and psychological cravings.

Most find that the first few days are the hardest, since nicotine withdrawal causes unpleasant symptoms such as lack of concentration, lightheadedness, anxiety, coughing, hunger, and strong cravings. These usually pass within a week or so.

What happens after last puff

20 mins later : Blood pressure and pulse return to normal.
one day later : Lungs start to clear out mucus and other deposits
Two days later : Body is clear of nicotine
Three days later : Breathing becomes easier
2 to 12 weeks later : Circulation improves
3 to 9 months later : Lungs become more efficient
1 year later : Excess risk of heart disease is halved
10 years later : Risk of lung cancer reduced by half
15 years later : Risk of death from lung cancer, heart disease and stroke return to non-smoking levels.