Stopping smoking
Why give up smoking?
Here are six good reasons ... select from Reason 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Giving up | Links
Reason 1: Smoking is a slow poison
Did you know that there are about 4,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke? They include:
- Tar (the stuff used to surface roads)
- Carbon monoxide (a poisonous gas that kills)
- Acetone (used in nail polish remover)
- Ammonia (found in cleaning fluids)
- Arsenic (a deadly poison)
- Formaldehyde (preserves dead bodies)
- Cyanide(another deadly poison)
Reason 2: Smoking is bad for your health!
25-a-day smokers are 25 times more likely to die of lung cancer than non smokers, plus:
- 83% of lung cancer deaths in England are smoking-related
- 83% of deaths from bronchitis and emphysema in England are smoking-related
- Smokers are more than twice as likely to die from coronary heart disease than non-smokers
Reason 3: Smoking is bad for your looks!
It has been scientifically proven that smoking causes:
- premature ageing and wrinkling
- grey, parched skin
- hair loss
- gum disease and tooth loss
- increased cellulite
Reason 4: Smoking is bad for your sex life!
Research has proved that smoking:
- FOR MEN - increases the risk of impotence by around 50% for men in their 30s and 40s
- FOR WOMEN - increases the risk of miscarriage, perinatal mortality, low birth weight and other complications
Reason 5: Smoking is bad for your bank balance!
Have you ever reckoned up how much smoking costs you?
- Twenty-a-day smokers can expect to shell out £1,545.60 every year.
- Forty-a-day smokers will spend a staggering £3,091.20 every year
These figures are based on a pack of cigarettes costing £4.60.
Reason 6: Smoking makes you feel bad!
Scientists have proved that nicotine is a highly addictive and fast acting drug which:
- Increases feelings of agitation
- Causes light headedness
- Causes nausea
Salford City Council is working with Salford Primary Care Trust to encourage city residents to quit smoking. You can pick up advice leaflets in all of the following locations in Salford:
- Local health centres
- GP practices
- Schools
- Libraries
Alternatively contact:
Salford Stop Smoking Support Team on 0161-212 4050
or email: stop.smoking@salford-pct.nhs.uk
If you would like more information and help on how to give up smoking, here are some useful websites
- Quit - is a UK charity that helps smokers to quit. Counsellors offer confidential help and advice and a variety of more tailored support for such groups as minority ethnic communities, young people, a dads' quitline and also has a "I'm a teenager and I'm pregnant" section.
- Giving up smoking - an NHS web site with content from the Health Development Agency. It provides information and advice on how to give up smoking.
- Gasp - provides smoking cessation posters, literature, leaflets and resources.
- Bedfont Scientific Limited - manufacturers of carbon monoxide monitors.
- The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation - has lots of information and advice for smokers who want to quit.
- Need to know - health - aimed at young people with lots of information about the effects of smoking and about giving up.
- Kats - aims to increase awareness amongst all school-age children, part of the The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.
- Connexions Direct - for 13-19 year olds.
- Stop Smoking Service - Manchester - has a section for young people.
This page was last updated on 07 November 2008
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