Smoking is a major cause of heart diseases. That includes cigarette, cigar and pipe smoking. It’s a contributor to heart attack, stroke and peripheral vascular disease. Combine smoking with other heart disease causes such as high saturated fat diets and no exercise and you have a disaster waiting to happen. Though those causes need discussion too let’s confine this one to heart disease caused by smoking.

Some Smoking and Heart Disease Facts:

• Tobacco contains tars and other poisonous substances, which are proven to cause cancer and heart disease.
• Many of the over 4,000 chemicals contained in tobacco are known to be poisonous.
• Smoking causes high blood pressure because your heart beats faster trying to find the oxygen that has been replaced by carbon monoxide in your blood.
• Smoking over time will cause clogged arteries. That leads to heart attacks because the oxygen-starved heart overworks to get oxygen into the blood stream. Clots are more likely to form from the clogging in the arteries, bringing about the risk of stroke and fatal heart attack.
• The risk of death from coronary heart disease is 70% greater for regular, long-time smokers than non-smokers.
• Children and teens, attempting to mimic a parent or hero figure, make up 80% of the new smokers.
• Passive smoking causes heart disease. Non-smokers who inhale second hand smoke are at direct risk for heart disease just as the active smoker is.
• Living with an active smoker increases a non-smokers risk of heart disease by 30%.
• Children and unborn babies are especially vulnerable. Second hand smoke leads to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, and middle ear infection. Active smoking and inhaling second hand smoke by pregnant women can lead to low birth weight babies.

People mistakenly choose smoking to cope with stress, anxiety, and to loose weight. Any doctor would counsel against that and probably would warn you of the potential heart disease. Others smoke because of low self-esteem, or sometimes just to fit in their circle of friends. A lot of beginning smokers are just following the lead of parents or other influential people.

Increase Your Life Span and Improve Your Health…Stop Smoking

Here are three important reasons to Stop Smoking now:

1. Smoking causes heart disease, which can lead to a heart failure.
2. Your smoking can cause the same bad health in your non-smoking family and friends.
3. Save thousands of dollars per year by not buying cigarettes.

You Can Get Help to Quit Smoking

If you cannot quit smoking with just your will power, and/or if you’re a very heavy smoker, you might want to get help in order to successfully quit.

* Speak with your physician and discuss the methods used to quit and which would be best for you.

* Nicotine patches, pills, and gums are over the counter substitutes and will help to reduce the nicotine cravings.

* Ask you friends and family to help you quit smoking. If they smoke, ask that they do not smoke in your presence while you are going through your normal withdrawals. If you slip up, don’t give up. Start again.

Cigarette smoking will shorten your life. Family and others close to you who inhale your second hand smoke will also have a shortened life. Those reasons alone are enough to quit. Quit smoking and give yourself and your close ones a healthier life and clean air.

Quit smoking today and you’ll beat heart disease caused by this nasty habit.

beat heart disease, cause of heart disease, heart disease, News, quit smoking, smoking, smoking and heart disease, stop smoking

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

Share This  |  Email It  |  Print This Post  |  Subscribe to It!
This entry was posted on Thursday, October 18th, 2007 at 10:43 am and is filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.