Reasons to quit
(off the internet)
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Alzheimer's Disease: Smoking Speeds Up Mental Decline
Lupus: Smoking Raises Risk of Autoimmune Disease
SIDS: Maternal Smoking Doubles Risk
COLIC: Smoking Makes Babies Irritable, Too
An Increased Risk of Impotence
Blindness: Smoking Raises Risk of Age-Related Macular
Degeneration
Reasons to quit
(off the internet)
• Rheumatoid Arthritis: Genetically Vulnerable Smokers Increase
Their Risk Even More
• Snoring: Even Living With a Smoker Raises Risk
• Acid Reflux: Heavy Smoking Linked to Heartburn
• Breast Cancer: Active Smoking Plays Bigger Role Than Thought
• Smoking is linked to certain colon cancers.
• Smoking may increase the risk of depression in young people,
• Some studies have linked smoking to thyroid disease.
Reasons to quit
(off the internet)
• Within 20 minutes of stopping smoking your blood pressure,
pulse rate and body temperature return to normal
• Within 8 hours the carbon monoxide level in your blood returns
to normal and your smokers breath begins to disappear
• Within 3 days your chance of having a heart attack decreases
and your nerve endings begin to redevelop. Your ability to smell
and taste improves dramatically. Breathing also becomes easier.
• Within 2 months your circulation improves. Lungs become
cleaner which reduces chance of infection. Your smokers cough
improves and fatigue is reduced giving you more energy.
Reasons to quit
(off the internet)
• After one year your chances of having a heart attack is reduced by half.
The chances of getting cancer is also reduced.
• After 10 years your risk of having a heart attack or stroke is the same as
someone who has never smoked
• Quitting smoking before the age of 30 eradicates the effects of smoking
on your health in later life
• You become a role model to your children, grand children, friends and
family
• You save thousands every year to spend on holidays and other luxuries
you couldn't afford before
• Quitting smoking stops your hard earned cash from lining the
government and tobacco companies pockets - whilst they knowingly let
you die from terminal illness!
• Quitting smoking gives you decades more time to spend with your family
and friends to enjoy life
Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000
different chemicals. "At least 43 are
known carcinogens (cause cancer in
humans),"
http://article.wn.com/view/2009/05/31/4000_chemicals_in_cigarettes/
Harmful Chemicals in Cigarette Smoke
Benzene (petrol additive)
A colourless cyclic hydrocarbon obtained from coal and
petroleum, used as a solvent in fuel and in chemical
manufacture - and contained in cigarette smoke. It is a known
carcinogen and is associated with leukaemia.
Formaldehyde (embalming fluid)
A colourless liquid, highly poisonous, used to preserve dead
bodies - also found in cigarette smoke. Known to cause cancer,
respiratory, skin and gastrointestinal problems.
Ammonia (toilet cleaner)
Used as a flavouring, frees nicotine from tobacco turning it into a
gas, found in dry cleaning fluids.
Acetone (nail polish remover)
Fragrant volatile liquid ketone, used as a solvent, for example,
nail polish remover - found in cigarette smoke.
Harmful Chemicals in Cigarette Smoke
Tar
Particulate matter drawn into lungs when you inhale on a
lighted cigarette. Once inhaled, smoke condenses and about 70
per cent of the tar in the smoke is deposited in the smoker's
lungs.
Nicotine (insecticide/addictive drug)
One of the most addictive substances known to man, a
powerful and fast-acting medical and non-medical poison. This
is the chemical which causes addiction.
Carbon Monoxide (CO) (car exhaust fumes)
An odourless, tasteless and poisonous gas, rapidly fatal in large
amounts - it's the same gas that comes out of car exhausts and
is the main gas in cigarette smoke, formed when the cigarette is
lit. Others you may recognize are :
Arsenic (rat poison), Hydrogen Cyanide (gas chamber poison)
Quotes from Doctors and researchers
•Yes, “nicotine is a poison.”
•Tobacco is “a poison that is more dangerous than
hemlock, deadlier than opium. . . . Assuredly, when
[people] try it for the first time, [they] feel an
uneasiness that tells us that we have taken poison.”
Soon “all reasoning, all warning is in vain. He cannot
shake off his enemy . . . tobacco alone becomes a
fatal, insatiable necessary [addiction] . . . smoking is
a permanent epilepsy.”
•“Tobacco is, in fact, an absolute poison.”
•“Tobacco is in fact an absolute poison.” The effect is
“always to destroy life.”
Quotes from Doctors and researchers
•Nicotine, a substance in tobacco, is one of the most
violent poisons known.
•“[T]obacco . . . is a poison—a very active poison.”
•“[T]obacco is a most active and deadly poison.”
•Tobacco contains the most violent of the poisons.
•They are “poison, alias cigarettes.”
•Saying “'It is nothing but a cigarette,' is really, 'It's nothing
but poison…indeed, “one of the most violent of
poisons,”
•Tobacco “first, last, and all the time is a . . . poison.”
•“Tobacco contains a sharp-tasting liquid called nicotine,
which is a quick-acting and deadly poison.”
•“Tobacco . . . is a virulent poison.”
http://www.inforesearchlab.com/smokingdeaths.chtml
http://www.inforesearchlab.com/smokingdeaths.chtml
http://www.inforesearchlab.com/smokingdeaths.chtml
Why should you quit?
• There are principles that are found
throughout the Bible.
• There are 5 principles that are found in the
New Testament that goes against smoking.
1. Principle of
NO Self-inflicted wounds.
2. Principle of
the Golden Rule.
2. Principle of
the Golden Rule.
3. Principle of
the Lighthouse.
3. Principle of
the Lighthouse.
4. Principle of
the body on the alter.
5. Principle of
“don’t give the reins away”.