What Are The Benefits of Quitting Smoking?

When you want to quit smoking, you need to keep the goal of quitting firmly in your mind. This is so that when the nicotine addiction takes hold, and you’re going through bad withdrawal symptoms, you won’t be tempted to smoke even one little drag because you have those goals at the forefront of your brain. One of the best ways to have that goal firmly placed at the forefront is to remember all the health benefits of quitting smoking. Health is one of the main reasons why people quit smoking and knowing these benefits of quitting smoking can help you succeed.

When you quit smoking you need to keep the benefits of quitting smoking in the front of your mind.  When you are going through the withdrawal process, and believe me it is a process.  You need to keep reinforcing the benefits of quitting smoking.  This will help you to not fall off the wagon.  One of the best ways that I have found to quit smoking is to keep all the health benefits in the forefront of my mind.  You can reinforce that by adding all of the other benefits that come to mind, as well.

When I quit, I used the old Ben Franklin close on myself.  I made a list of all the good things about smoking.  And to the right of that, a list of all the bad things about smoking.  Wait till you try this one out, you're left column will be empty, and the right side will run off the page.  When I got to the end of that list, it just makes you think, what have I been doing to myself?

You get the point.  The benefits of quitting smoking are huge!  The important thing though is not just a think about it but make that list.  This will help you to visualize, and support your position even stronger.

Save your lungs

Your lungs are pretty important.  Without them you can't breathe.  If you can't breathe, you can't live!  You need oxygen to survive!  Cigarette smoking is the worst thing you can do to your lungs it coats the lungs with tar.  Can you imagine trying to breathe through an asphalt road?  When you smoke, it's like laying a code of asphalt over your lungs.  Every day you smoke makes your lungs less functional.

There will come a point, when your lungs will no longer function at all.  This may sound harsh, but it is the truth.  It is the reality of what smoking will do to you.  Enough said?  Read this paragraph again, and again, and again, until it sticks in your mind.

Save your skin it's the only one you got!

A smokers stand and a non-smoker skin are night and day different.  A smokers stand will be yellow and wrinkled.  It will look leathery.  A smokers I use will even turn yellow.  When you quit smoking, the yellowish color will go away.  Wrinkles will start to diminish.  You will not only start feeling better, you will start looking younger.  Now I'm not saying this is the fountain of youth, but you will start to look younger.  Smoking takes a toll on just about every part of your body.  So, add this to your list of goals.  "I want to look younger" Wow, what a benefit.

In a Nut Shell

You have to want to quit.  You have to know the reasons why you want to quit smoking.  Write a list of all the reasons.  Pin it up everywhere.  Make your list of all the positive things that will happen in your life as a result of quitting your smoking addiction.  Besides all the health benefits, how about the social benefits?  How about the money savings?  The money savings is huge, much larger than you ever thought about.  It's not just the cost of cigarettes which by the way is growing daily!  It's about health cost, cost of life, cost of a ruined clothing, cost of destroying your car, the cost of destroying your home, the cost of hurting others' lives, you know this secondhand smoke thing!

I dare use to sit down in an all this up.  I would be afraid to.  I think if all the smokers in the world added up the cost of this habit, we might be able to solve the national deficit!  All joking aside, there are definite cost involved, and they add up substantially!