What are the immediate and long term advantages of quit smoking?
May.01, 2008 in
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Need to know the fact from a person who really quit smoking and had been benfitting for no smoking
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May 3rd, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Short-term effects of smoking include a significant increase in heart rate and a drop in skin temperature. Respiration rate is also increased. In novice smokers, diarrhea and vomiting may occur. Although the central nervous system is, in fact, stimulated by smoking, smokers usually feel it relaxes them.
Long-term effects are mainly on the bronchopulmonary and cardiovascular systems. Smoking is the main cause of lung cancer (related to 90% of all lung cancer cases). Other factors – notably industrial carcinogens (e.g. asbestos) – may be involved, especially among smokers. An average smoker is 10 times more likely to get lung cancer than a non-smoker.
Smoking is estimated to be responsible for 30% of all cancer deaths. It is also associated with cancers of the mouth, throat, colon, pancreas, bladder, kidneys, stomach, and cervix, and related to 75% of chronic bronchitis cases and 80% of emphysema cases.
Tobacco also affects the digestive system – gastric and duodenal ulcers are twice as common and twice as likely to cause death in smokers as in non-smokers. Skin wounds may heal less quickly in smokers, partly because smoking depletes the body of vitamin C. Smokers may also have less effective immune systems than non-smokers.
Tobacco use is associated with 25% to 30% of all cardiovascular disease. Smokers have a 70% higher rate of coronary heart disease than non-smokers (it is the major smoking-related cause of death), nearly twice the risk of heart attack, and five times the risk of stroke.
The damaging effects of smoking are often increased by other factors: for example, the heavy use of such other drugs as alcohol with tobacco increases the risk of both tobacco-related cancer and other diseases of the heart and blood vessels.
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May 4th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
immediate = save money,breath better, smell better.
long term = you get to live
May 5th, 2008 at 4:04 am
after your last cigarrete your body will heal itself you can escape getting lung and blood and heart diseases and prevent dying.
good luck hope this person quits
also talk to a doctor
May 6th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Immediate: health
Long term: life
May 7th, 2008 at 9:48 am
What is the immediate and long term gain if you don’t quit smoking.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
You stop coughing. You don’t get as winded. You sense of smell and taste improves. You smell better. You have more money to spend on other stuff.