10 reasons to quit smoking right away

Still not enough motivation to finally quit smoking? Here are 10 reasons to quit smoking right now:

1. Smoking negatively affects the sexual health of men. Nicotine constricts blood vessels and impairs blood flow to the limbs, which is most likely to cause problems like erectile dysfunction and inflammation of the prostate gland. Not a single man would like to face such problems in his late 30s. Nicotine has also a negative effect on sperm quality and motility, thereby significantly reducing the possibility of having children.

2. Women's reproductive health also suffers from smoking. It is usually rather difficult for a smoking woman to become pregnant and bear a healthy baby: according to data provided by Western doctors, every second child born to smoking women is born preterm and / or dies within the first months after birth. Besides, according to doctors, among smokers, there are two times more infertile women than among non-smokers.

3. How many cigarettes do you smoke per day? A pack of cigarettes in Armenia costs from 350 to 1000 AMD. If you smoke a pack a day, per month you spend on cigarettes around 10500-30000 AMD ($25-75). This is 126000-360000 AMD ($310-880) a year. If you smoke two packs a day, multiply these figures by two. With this money you could buy some good equipment, new clothing or travel to new places.

4. Have you noticed that non-smokers usually look much better than smokers? Most smokers have yellowish, unhealthy-looking skin, perishable teeth, and halitosis. To all this, you can add brittle nails and dry, lifeless hair. By the way, smokers acquire wrinkles and age earlier than non-smokers because of the circulatory disorders caused by nicotine. However, all these processes can be reversed if you quit smoking right away.

5. Do you love your children? Then you should think about their health, too. Children’s body isn’t as strong as adults’, and passive smoking is unlikely to make them healthier. Actually, children whose parents smoke are more susceptible to colds and infectious diseases.

6. Animals suffer from cigarette smoke even more than humans. If you have a cat or a dog at home, before taking the cigarette out of its pack, remember that nicotine causes cancer in pets, and much sooner than in humans.

7. Smoking is not cool at all, and the cigarette between your fingers does not make you prettier or sexier. Famous Russian writer Chekhov once said, that “kissing a smoking woman is like licking an ash-tray.” Now men – even smokers – think the same way: cigarettes cannot make a woman prettier or sexier.

8. Smokers’ receptors are less sensitive than those of non-smokers, that is why it is harder for the smokers to smell flowers or perfume or enjoy the taste of food. The vision of smokers often loses its sharpness, too. If you quit smoking, the food will become tastier, the odors will become sharper, the images clearer.

9. Everybody knows that nicotine is a poison, and that a couple of its drops can kill a horse. You probably have heard this many times. And right now imagine a vigorous, strong horse and remember that a drop of nicotine can do to it. You regularly inhale this nicotine.

10. If you quit smoking, you will become a free person who does not have to think about smoking all the time and who can easily concentrate on work or anything else.

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