Smoking Facts | Die 5 Minutes of Your Life from 1 Cigarette

What exactly happens when you smoke? If you are a cigarette smoker, then you probably never cared more than anything but to give yourself an excuse to puff that cigarette. You might never have given thought to where that smoke actually goes, when you should've been the professional on it. While you take a cigarette from your pocket and kill yourself, let's cover that deadly process of smoking you're doing right now.

First, let's narrow it down to that craving you have. Why do you have it? Why do you get more cravings when you finally decided to stop smoking?

Before anything, you must realize that thinking is a chemical process. In every thought, brain cells release messages that activate channels along nerve cells. When you smoke, nicotine hits your nervous system within 8 seconds where it swells a number of brain receptors that interpret your thinking patterns, and sets them to want more nicotine. This causes your cravings for nicotine (easiest accessible in cigarette.) But do you know that injecting gradual doses of nicotine helps the withdrawal process and dissolves these cravings? Well, you do now. This has been tested for about 40,000 smokers in over a hundred clinics, and actually worked. Nowadays nicotine supplements are being found on gums and lozenges, which are available over-the-counter in the US.

Drug stimulation occurs in the adrenal gland and releases Epinephrine (Adrenaline) which causes an increase in your blood pressure when you smoke. Heart rate is sped up to 20 beats per minute, tightening your blood vessels, causing the thinning of blood vessel tissues, making you more prone to stroke. As blood rushes to your heart, your get a cool down in your skin.

You experience loss of appetite due to excessive usage of blood sugar in the process. Your lack in appetite now inhibits you your required daily nutritional intake. As you have burned more energy, had less intake, and no conduit of getting it, you'd be expected to perform less.

Once inhaled, smoke clouds up your lungs (could stop lung growth in children) then slowly consumes until your lungs looked like a ragged picture of a fossil in your lung x-rays. They'd cause lung cancer, Tuberculosis, Bronchitis, Phlegm, Laryngitis, and more along the way.

Pregnancy smoking shortens the oxygen supply given to the baby, thus reducing the growth critically in the baby's physical and brain development stage. If they were fortunate enough not to belong to miscarriages caused by pregnancy smoking, they are often light, still, or premature. Remember that a smoking mother's breastmilk is also not safe of nicotine.

So you're a bit enlightened, and you're looking for ways that can help you quit smoking, try reading this related article for top 10 tips to quit smoking.

Statistics

Slash 5 minutes of your life for every cigarette that you smoke.

(If you smoked 12 cigarettes per day x 5 minutes = you have minus one hour of your day. It means you'll only live about 23/24 of your lifespan)

20% of American Teenagers are Smokers. 1/3 of these teenage smokers would eventually die of smoke related diseases as early as 50 years old or less depending on their start age.

Nicotine is poison! Nicotine is a naturally occurring colorless liquid that comes from the Tobacco plant, used as a natural defensive mechanism to ward off insects. It ranked 1st as the world's most addictive substance according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Cigarette smokes contain 4000 harmful chemical, with nicotine the most dominant.

Smokers take in 1-2 mg of nicotine per cigarette.

400,000 people die every year of nicotine alone. 430, 000 deaths are recorded due to cigarette smoking.

Babies in the United States experiences 300,000 respiratory tract infections due to secondhand smoke. 1900-2700 infants die from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) because of secondhand smoke. 4000 babies die yearly caused by pregnancy smoking.

Daily smoking of about 10 cigarettes could lead to infertility of both men and women.

1/3 of Earth's male population smokes.

1 person dies of smoking Tobacco per 8 seconds.

15 billion cigars are sold a day. You could save $700.00 a year if you stop smoking.

You have all forms of cancer, (lung cancer, throat cancer, larynx, esophagus cancer, brain tumors, breast cancer, gastric cancer, even genital cancer.)

All that given, believe me, cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health.