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Heartburn Quitting Smoking
Does smoking cigarettes help you digest food faster?
I was a smoker for 7 years, smoking a pack to a pack and a half a day and never had any trouble digesting food. When I quit cold turkey about 3 months ago, I got bad heartburn with lots of acid and it seemed as if the food would not pass through my stomach. Its been this way for 3 months now and it seems the only way to make it better is to take pepcid. Is it really possible that cigarettes, before and after meals, helped to aid in digestion?
Yes - nicotine stimulates the digestive system, so when you quit, your system slowed down.
Why Would I Want To Quit Smoking
There are so many reasons these days to quit smoking Health, Political, Social and financial. Let's take a look at each of these aspects and see how smoking relates to each.
Health
There are all the obvious health issues that we hear about such as Lung Cancer, Heart disease and respiratory disease. Smokers are 10 times as likely to get lung cancer and emphysema as nonsmokers. But what about the others like cancer of the esophagus and throat, high blood pressure and pulmonary embolism. Smoking causes increased stomach acid, leading to heartburn and ulcers. Smokers have higher risk of deadly pancreatic cancer. The carcinogens from cigarettes are present in the urine and can lead bladder cancer, which is often fatal. High blood pressure from smoking can damage the kidneys.
Do you get out of breath when you exert yourself even a little bit. This could be a precursor to Heart disease or respiratory disease. Are your feet always cold. This could be due to high blood pressure and poor circulation. Smoking constricts blood vessels and raises your heart rate and it takes about 60 minutes from taking your last puff for your blood pressure and pulse decrease.
Even if you don't get cancer, do you want to be one of those people carrying an oxygen bottles everywhere you go for the rest of your life.
Everyone has heard about people committing suicide by breathing the exhaust (carbon monoxide) of their car. But did you know that each puff of cigarette smoke contains 3.2% carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide robs the blood of oxygen because the hemoglobin in your blood will pickup carbon monoxide molecules in favor of oxygen, and it takes over an hour for the carbon monoxide levels in your blood return to normal after that last puff. Each cigarette you smoke contains at least 17 known poisons that you take into your body with each puff.
And not to mention the danger of second hand smoke to our children and other love ones. Children are the ones most affected by second hand smoke. Because their bodies are still developing, exposure them to the poisons in secondhand smoke puts children in danger of severe respiratory diseases and can hinder the growth of their lungs and the effects can last a lifetime.
If you smoke during your pregnancy you are not only risking your health but endangering the health of your unborn child. On average, babies of women who smoke weigh less at birth than babies of nonsmokers. Statistics have showed that infant mortality is 50 percent higher when the mother smokes. Children of smokers are also 2½ times more likely to die of sudden infant death syndrome, or crib death.
Political
Today there are more and more laws being passed related to smoking, you can no longer smoke inside any public place and in some places you have to go to a designated smoking area even if you are outside. You cannot enjoy the cigarette with your cup of coffee after dinner or smoke while sitting at the bar, no you have to go outside in the cold to the smoking area for that all important smoke break.
There are places that if your smoke is drafted from your house to your neighbors they can report you to the police department for disciplinary action.
Many companies have started to refuse to hire smokers. Smokers cost more money than non-smokers to employ. Smokers take longer and more frequent breaks as well as use more sick days, and they cost more to insure.
Let face it as a smoker you do not have a legal leg to stand on, no rights and it is getting worse every day.
Social
Smoking causes premature aging and drying of the skin. The tobacco stains your fingers, fingernails and teeth. You have a yellow smile very embarrassing.
Your breath smells like an ashtray. Who want to kiss an ashtray.
Your close reeks of cigarette smoke.
If you smoke in your house it reeks of cigarette smoke and the paint is discolored and stained.
Your car smells and there are cigarette ashes everywhere and the glass and mirror are stained.
Financial
Remember when I said you no rights and no legal leg to stand on, well that's not all, you are being fined for smoking. That's right fined; in addition to the sales tax on that pack of cigarettes you have a sin tax for the sin of smoking. Cigarettes cost anywhere from $4.70 to $6.75 and $0.87 to $2.25 of that is tax.
The average cost of a pack of cigarettes is about $5.25. Let's assume you smoke one pack per day. During the course of a year, those cigarettes are costing you 365 x $5.50 = $2007.50. You think well that's not too bad.
But what about the other cost related to smoking. Heath and life insurance cost more if you are a smoker. Increased dental care and cleaning costs. The cost of keeping your house and car cleaned not to mention your close and all the gum and breathe mints so you do not offend.
As you can see there are many reasons to quit smoking can you make a list of as many reasons not to stop.
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