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Why should I quit smoking? How will my health improve if I stop smoking? How can I quit successfully? Who and what can help me quit? How can I cope with cravings once I do quit? How can I keep from gaining weight after... See more » Why should I quit smoking? How will my health improve if I stop smoking? How can I quit successfully? Who and what can help me quit? How can I cope with cravings once I do quit? How can I keep from gaining weight after I quit? What if I fail the first time? What if I'm just not ready to quit? Because it could save your life. They don't call cigarettes "cancer sticks" and "coffin nails" for nothing. When you smoke, you're exposing yourself to more than 4,800 chemicals, including cyanide, benzene, and ammonia -- and at least 69 of those chemicals can cause cancer. Perhaps the best known is nicotine, an addictive compound that can make it ferociously hard to stop smoking. Although smoking may feel good, it hurts every organ in your body. Middle-aged smokers have death rates three times higher than those of people in the same age range who have never smoked. You're at much greater risk of getting lung cancer than a nonsmoker. You're also more likely to suffer from hardening of the arteries, bronchitis, shortness of breath, or emphysema, which causes a slow, painful death. What's more, you're at an increased risk for stroke and twice as likely to have a heart attack as a nonsmoker. These hazards may seem pretty far away when you're young. But it probably won't be long before your face starts looking sallow, and later you'll likely develop signs of "smoker's face," premature wrinkling marked by dozens of tiny creases -- something that nonsmokers typically don't get. Smoking also gives you bad breath and stains your teeth and fingers, and the secondhand smoke from your cigarettes is likely to irritate friends and family members who don't smoke. (It's also hazardous to their health more than 49,000 people die annually of lung cancer and heart disease from breathing other people's smoke, according to the American Lung Association.) Your body benefits as soon as you stop smoking. According to the American Lung Association, within 20 minutes of your last cigarette your elevated blood pressure and pulse rate drop. After a couple of days, your abilities to smell and taste improve and your damaged nerve endings start to repair themselves. Within a few months, walking and other physical activities will become easier and your lung function increases. After 10 years, you'll have nearly halved your odds of getting lung cancer. Your friends and family also benefit when you stop smoking. A nonsmoker who's married to a smoker has about a 30 percent higher risk of developing lung cancer than one who lives with a nonsmoker. Children whose parents smoke are more likely to suffer from pneumonia or bronchitis in the first two years of life than are children who live in smoke-free households. By quitting cigarettes, you're protecting your loved ones as well. See less »

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Preparing to quit is an important first step. There's no one right way to stop smoking, but smokers who lay the groundwork are much more likely to succeed. ...

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