Stop Smoking

Overview

There are many benefits of stopping smoking.

People breathe more easily and cough less when they give up smoking because their lung capacity improves by up to 10% within nine months. 

It helps you to regain your youthful energy where you have more lung capacity to climb stairs or go for a jog.

Causes

Many people start smoking in their teens and end up finding it difficult to stop until their health deteriorates:

Smoking can cause lung disease by damaging your airways and the small air sacs or alveoli in your lungs. Lung diseases caused by smoking include COPD, which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Cigarette smoking causes most cases of lung cancer.

Risks

There are many risks associated with smoking, including the common lung cancer; also lung diseases such as COPD, which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.