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Giving up smoking? Good idea, because cigarettes are full of poisons... By Peter Petterson Giving up smoking? Good idea, because cigarettes are full of poisons. Lets read a bit about them. Tobacco smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals. These include tar, carbon monoxide (found in car exhaust fumes), ammonia (found in floor cleaner)and arsenic (found in rat poisons). Cigarettes contain nicotine, which is an extremely addictive drug. The mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate, and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels. It slows your blood flow, cutting off your oxygen to your feet and hands, and therefore affecting circulation. Carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body - especially your heart - work harder. Tar is made up of so many different chemicals, including substances that cause cancer. It coats your lungs like soot in a chimney. Changing to low-tar cigarettes doesn't help because smokers take deeper puffs to compensate and hold the smoke in longer to gain greater benefit, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs. Remember every cigarette is doing you damage! Contributor's Note Can you find any good reason to continue smoking?

Contributed by Huttriver of New Zealand on December 20, 2009, at 2:54 PM UTC.

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There is no good reason to smoke cigarettes. However, we adults are generally the ones who set the examples for our children.
We need to quit, so they won't start.
Great intel.
Frederick

frederick Dec 20, 2009 19:33

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Very good intel. Many years ago, my father, when he was alive, was told by his dr that if didn't quit smoking he would die. He instantly quit & then lived 30 yrs later. I have never seen anyone still in my entire life quit instantly like that. But he did. Cigaretts are very addicting for most though and I am just glad I never got in that habit

allthingsnatural Jan 19, 2010 10:14

My father quit instantly like that. Not for reasons you describe, but one day he just quit.
So it is possible, you just have to have the will power and positive attitude to do it.

Steven Toyota Jan 19, 2010 10:27

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