1. Chemicals in tobacco smoke: The tobacco smoke has in its composition over 4000 chemicals like carbon monoxide (an colorless, odorless gas that in a high dosage is lethal and in small dosage causes shortness of breath) or hydrogen cyanide (colorless gas that even at a small exposure can cause dizziness, headaches and vomiting). But, the most important chemical present in the tobacco smoke is nicotine; because it is the reason for which cigarettes are so addictive (this means that giving up smoking would be much easier if this component wouldn’t be here). 60g of pure nicotine on a person’s tongue can cause its instant death, meaning that in larger quantities, nicotine is very poisonous.

2. Smoking costs: A reason for which you should give up smoking if the costs of smoking, but not money is all that it counts, giving up can be a good idea. Risky pregnancy, damaged circulation, reduced fertility, nicotine-stained fingers, heart attack or wheezing are just a few of the physical costs of smoking, besides the financial ones. And last but not least, the social costs like polluting the air, spoilt clothes, smoke in your eyes, dusty and stuffy home, and the list goes on.

3. Second-hand smokers: Smoking does not affect only you, the smoker, but also your love ones are also affected. When they breathe other people’s tobacco smoke, non smokers are exposed to the 4000 chemicals. Your children can be affected by the secondhand smoking, and this could lead to chest illnesses, wheezing, childhood asthma, ear infections and even to smoking themselves. You put at the risk of the same diseases as you by exposing people around you to second hand smoke.

But once you stop smoking, everything starts to recover. Your body starts it’s recovering by circulation improvement, you start to breathe more easily, the risk of disease starts to fall, your skin warms up, and last but not least, the most important thing you will not endanger the persons around you any longer.