Smoking can cause various health problems like heart attacks, asthma and even stroke. It is the nicotine present in each cigar that gives addiction tempting the smokers to continue using it. There is not only nicotine in every cigarette but about 7,000 harmful chemicals also.
Facts On Addiction Of Tobacco
- Cigarette smoking is one of the leading cause of death in the USA
- As per the data given by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, each year around 480,000 people die prematurely in the America alone.
- Each year, cigarette smoking has caused chronic illness in 16 million people.
- In contrary to many people belief, smoking can cause harmful effects on non-smokers who live in the environment of smokers.
- Passive smoking can cause chronic diseases and even death to many people.
- More than 88 million people of America are exposed to secondhand smoking regularly.
- Nicotine replacement therapy and support groups can help you out to quit smoking.
- One out of 3 persons who die due to cancer are smokers.
- You are 2 times more prone to develop cancer than non smokers.
- You are 4 times at risk to die from cancer if you are heavy smoker.
- Lung cancer is the most prominent cancer causing death for smokers.
- Cigar smoking is believed to account for about 90% of all lung cancer deaths.
Why You Smoke ?
There is no clear-cut reason for smoking. Many people follow the theory that it relives tension when they smoke. An individual get into smoking when he/she becomes upset or angry over certain events at home or workplace. Some people say that they smoke to gain focus and improving concentration. But none of them is true. Smoking does not help in relieving stress or gaining focus. It is the false belief in the system of smokers that tempts them to smoke more and more.
Addiction To Smoking
What is addiction? Any habit that compels you to seek out and use it regularly, even when you know pretty well that it can harm your health is known as addiction. All the products of tobacco including cigars and pipes are addictive. Nicotine is present in low quantity (10 mg) in each cigarette is addictive. A smoker does not inhale the entire quantity of nicotine but only about 1-2 mg of nicotine when they smoke one cigar. It is because he/she enjoys only some part of the smoke into his/her lungs and lets out other parts. Imagine the strength and vitality of nicotine when it makes you addictive even while inhaling 1-2 mg.