It’ll Never Happen To Me
June 15th, 2009 | Published in How I Kicked The Habit
A few smokers, mainly the younger ones, have almost a death wish. They prefer to roll the dice in life and think that “it’ll never happen to them”. What they usually mean is that they hope they’ll never get lung cancer.
Why do smokers fear lung cancer? Because if you get it then it is almost certainly incurable and you will probably die a slow painful death within a matter of months.
Your chances of getting lung cancer are still fairly low though. So if you forget about the hit to your wallet, is it still worth taking a chance and carry on smoking anyway?
Smoking affects your entire body. Have you ever seen a woman who claims to be 40 but looks more like 55? Chances are that she was a smoker.
When you smoke, it goes into your lungs and then you breathe it out but the long term effects are on your entire body. Smoking affects your circulatory system which means every square inch of your body. It clogs the arteries and almost guarantees that you will die from a heart attack, on average, earlier than a non-smoker.
It affects your organs, you are more likely to get a whole host of cancers and not just lung cancer, and it affects your fitness and even your brain and thinking.
Sure, gamble if you want that you’ll never get lung cancer but die early in ignorance anyway having lived most of your life with a diseased body.
On the other hand, if you stop smoking, at whatever age, then the benefits from stopping smoking happen very quickly indeed - more on this later.
