People smoke for many reasons. Below find most of those reasons listed:
- Stress
- Peer and social pressures
- People in lower income brackets become smokers
- Wanting to look mature, confident and independent
- Risk taking behaviors
- Extroverted individuals are more likely to become smokers
- People who have parents that smoke
About 80% of all smokers started smoking before the age of 21. Smoking became in thing to do in the late 1930’s and continued to catch on right up to the 1960’s. The numbers who smoke compared to the numbers from 1930 to 1960 are considerably less. As people are realizing what they are doing to their bodies more and more people are quitting or looking for ways to quit.
Men who smoke take approximately 13 years from their lifespan and women take 14 years off of their lives. Just think about how much you will miss out on if you don’t stop smoking.
You are robbing your family and friends of the time you are taking off of your life span.
You can quit the smoking habit. All you have to do is want to quit. With all the new stop smoking aids out there on the market and all the things that doctors can help you with, you are sure to be a nonsmoker in just a matter of time. |