Try to get a moment by yourself, sit down, and create a small list of reasons to quit. The reasons can be anything from personal hygiene to the effect your smoking has on others. Here are some examples:

1. Cleaner teeth
2. My child’s health
3. My health
4. Save money
5. The smell

Once you have your list made, try to keep in the places you will see it most often such as the front of your refrigerator, bathroom mirror, car dash, etc…

When you see that list, it will remind you every time of the reason you want to quit.

Almost 5 million people die every year in the world because of tobacco use. Those people that died have also affected the people around them, their loved ones, their children, their spouses, their co-workers, and many others from their continued tobacco usage. They kept doing it because they were in denial.

Smoking causes cancer, emphysema, amongst many other ailments. The health care costs are greater than ever for people that lived a tobacco-riden lifestyle. You have to remember that these costs are shared by society as a whole. The more people that get sick from tobacco use, the more your health insurance goes up. Don’t forget about the second hand smoke, it just multiplies the negative effect that smoking has on others.

The information you just read was written to help you start overcoming your addiction. Take action, protect others around you, and potentially save your own life from pain and illness.