Smoking is already affecting your health in many ways and you may not be fully aware of them all. Since the day you started, smoking has been interfering with your immune system, making you more vulnerable to illness caused by viruses or other infections. It has also been suppressing your body’s wound healing processes and interfering with your brain and nervous system making you more susceptible to stress, anxiety and depression.

Since the day you started, smoking has been filling your lungs with invisible, odourless, tasteless, carbon monoxide gas, draining your energy levels by preventing your blood from taking up oxygen.

Current research shows that the average smoker will die TEN YEARS prematurely on average; some researchers put this figure even higher. The last few decades of life can be particularly miserable for smokers who then begin to suffer the more serious effects of their habit.

The total lifetime cost of smoking is, on average £140,000 not accounting for interest/inflation and other increases in cost.

Most of the cost of a packet of cigarettes goes to the Government.

Smoking makes your breath stink and your teeth decay and smokers tend to underestimate the strength of the smell of tar and bacteria in their breath and the odour of tar on their clothes.

Smoking causes wrinkling of the skin, especially around the eyes and mouth. However, having a leg amputated or a breast removed is probably more of a cosmetic concern that skin-wrinkling or bad breath.

Smoking changes the waist to hip ratio or fat distribution in women so that they are more likely to develop a male paunch.

Children of smokers are three times more likely to smoke themselves. Alternatively, they may use their parents’ smoking as justification for smoking cannabis or taking other drugs.

Most smokers use cigarettes to calm their nerves, but cigarettes are powerful stimulants, they do the complete opposite and smokers might as well be injecting adrenaline to relax and cope with stress. Smoking just makes you more and more stressed the more you smoke. You might as well bang your head on a wall to get rid of a headache.

You owe it to yourself and your family to quit smoking once and for all – contact us for further information. clem@clemturner.co.uk or 01623 556234.