Do you remember when you lit that first cigarette? Did you cough your head off? Did you have a burning sensation in your throat or your lungs? If so, mostly like you did; that was your body telling you that you were poisoning it and your body wanted you to stop. Since you are reading this article, I take it that you didn’t listen to your body like millions of other people who are smoking.

It does not take your body long to get addicted to the poison called nicotine that it was trying to tell you it didn’t want. Once your start smoking, you are actually poisoning your body. You may not see it all at once because the results are slow, but the addiction works much faster.

You will find that your body will be prone to colds, flu, pneumonia and bronchitis. You will also find that it will take longer than usual to get over these types of illnesses. Fighting these infections can be costly.

Long term side effects are heart disease, artery disease, stroke and emphysema. The different types of cancer alone are enough to make you stop smoking if you smoke. You may get lung, stomach, breast, and bone and brain cancer just to name a few.

One cigarette can take as much as 20 minutes off your life span.

If you are a smoker, do whatever it takes to quit.