Among other things, you may just not have been ready to quit before. Or you may have chosen a method that wasn't best suited to you. The good news is that if you're really ready to give up smoking, there are ways to help you do it. Each year more than 400,000 people die from illnesses caused by smoking. Unfortunately, smoking-related deaths are often associated with long periods of illness and suffering which creates a terrible burden for both the smokers and their families and friends.
Smokers die prematurely and the cost of smoking-related disease is monumental.
The unavoidable truth is that smoking is dangerous to your health and not just your health alone. In fact, cigarette smoking is the number one avoidable cause of death and illness in the United States today. 3 Secondhand smoke or environmental tobacco smoke, the smoke from your cigarettes that others breathe, is also harmful. And the children of parents who smoke are especially at risk. Among infants to 18 months of age, secondhand smoke is associated with as many as 300,000 cases of bronchitis and pneumonia each year.