Have you ever known someone who quit smoking and said it was easy? Chances are you haven’t. Most smokers who have tried to quit have not been successful. Some say it’s a mental torture while some feel some sort of discomfort, quickly crashing back to that ‘heavenly’ puff. It gives one a pleasurable feeling, even a euphoric one.
Though they know all its risks, smokers will still hesitate to quit. Lung cancer, emphysema, and many other diseases are waiting in one’s later years, but these are not enough to make one decide to stop smoking. If one would consider smoking for a fewer times a day or choosing cigarettes with a lower tar content in order to avoid such diseases, he is wrong. The same risk presents itself. That is why quitting is the only way to significantly decrease that risk. It’s guaranteed that withdrawal symptoms would make it all the more difficult. But respiratory diseases present an even more difficult and bleaker future.
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More than 100,000 U.S. deaths are caused by excessive alcohol consumption each year. Direct and indirect causes of death include drunk driving, cirrhosis of the liver, falls, cancer, and stroke.
