Ask yourself how you feel about your smoking and how you feel about stopping. If you feel that your smoking is a problem and that you would like to stop you then need to tackle your dependence on smoking. Ask yourself how difficult it would be for you to stop. Smokers die younger on average than non smokers. Smokers suffer from diseases such as emphysema that causes perpetual breathlessness, heart disease causing chest pain on exercise, heart attacks, stroke causing paralysis of limbs and speech, blood vessel disease leading to amputation of legs.
Smoking causes cancer including lung, bladder, throat and mouth cancer.
Children suffer Parents who smoke are more likely to have low birthweight babies who are at higher risk of developing high blood pressure, diabetes and strokes as adults. Adult diseases are influenced by factors occurring in the womb on the unborn child. Children whose parents smoke suffer from asthma causing cough and breathlessness, glue ear causing deafness and are exposed to a risk of cancer due to passive smoking. The children of parents who smoke are more likely to smoke themselves. Smoking gives you bad breath, may upset your partner, costs money and is socially unacceptable.