If you smoke, tests can show you are being harmed NOW....
Today's Post: Thursday, 11-19-2009
Today, as some of you may know, is the annual Great American Smokeout where many health oriented groups publicize the idea that quitting smoking is a good idea and suggest stopping if only just for today. (See http://www.cancer.org/docroot/subsite/greatamericans/smokeout.asp for more information.)
If you smoke, as horribly bad for you as it is, why do you continue to smoke?
For many people it IS quite addictive. But there’s a bit more to it than that.
Unfortunately, most smokers only know that some smokers get lung cancer.
But most of them have not met someone this happened to so it doesn’t seem real so they assume it won’t happen to them and their motivation to quit is NOT very high or even if it is a bit high for some reason, it’s not enough to get them through the quitting process.
Oops! The truth about smoking is about 1400 times worse than that times ten!
Not only that, if you smoke, its serious harm to you is NOT something that happens only later if at all, it’s happening to YOU every day you smoke and it’s MUCH worse than lung cancer if it goes on long enough.
Here’s the deal. For every smoker who dies of lung cancer, several die of other cancers they would not have gotten if they didn’t smoke. And for every smoker who dies of any cancer there are several who die of some form of heart disease, heart attacks, fatal vascular senility, stroke, etc. The damage to your blood vessels is a reliable cause of erectile dysfunction. And, smoking speeds up the aging process too.
If lung cancer is a mouse that might not catch you, OK; but the giant, elephant sized, risk of heart disease already has you in its grasp and is beginning to squeeze you to death.
The cigarette companies don’t stress that much, do they?
You may not initially feel this happening.
But if you might be willing to quit to avoid it, did you know you can get tested to see that this process is actually happening to you already -- and is happening to you now even if you smoke only a few cigarettes a day or are in your teens?
1. HDL cholesterol helps prevent heart disease; yours should be over 50; and over 70 is even more protective. Have yours tested if you smoke. Chances are excellent yours is under 40. And whatever the reading is, if you smoke, your HDL is only about half as effective as it should be, so your effective HDL is about HALF the indicated reading.
2. The research is not clear whether lowering high homocysteine after the damage is done will help; but people who have readings of under 9.0 tend to get little heart disease and mental decline. And, people with readings well above 12.0 do tend to get heart disease and mental decline.
Have yours tested if you smoke. Smoking increases homocysteine levels. And, if you smoke, your homocysteine level may well be double what it would have been otherwise.
If you’re younger, it may be 16 when it could have been 8. If you are older, it may be 22 when it could have been 11. Ouch !!
3. Even people who are exposed to secondhand smoke have been found to have a 30 percent reduction in circulating vascular endothelial progenitor cells, a kind of cell involved in the repair and maintenance of a healthy blood vessels. Have yours tested if you smoke. It may be half what a healthy nonsmoker would have – AND it will test that way NOW.
In each of these three tests, you can see that smoking is already causing damage to your blood circulation and creating future heart disease and other really nasty diseases. And even worse, it’s disabling your body’s ability to repair the damage.
4. Breathing is also necessary to continued life. Doing it well also is a key to staying mentally sharp and being physically able.
If you smoke, have your breathing function tested NOW. Then listen as the doctor tells you how old you’d have to be to get that reading as a nonsmoker. Even new teenaged smokers are shocked at how old their lung function makes them.
Wouldn’t you try to get away if some thug tried to throw you into a concentration camp where they forced people to suffer and undergo horrible diseases?
The cigarette companies ARE that thug. If you still smoke, they’ve got you now.
It’s your life that’s at stake.
Now that you really know how bad it is, I wish you good luck in getting away soon.
Today's Post: Thursday, 11-19-2009
Today, as some of you may know, is the annual Great American Smokeout where many health oriented groups publicize the idea that quitting smoking is a good idea and suggest stopping if only just for today. (See http://www.cancer.org/docroot/subsite/greatamericans/smokeout.asp for more information.)
If you smoke, as horribly bad for you as it is, why do you continue to smoke?
For many people it IS quite addictive. But there’s a bit more to it than that.
Unfortunately, most smokers only know that some smokers get lung cancer.
But most of them have not met someone this happened to so it doesn’t seem real so they assume it won’t happen to them and their motivation to quit is NOT very high or even if it is a bit high for some reason, it’s not enough to get them through the quitting process.
Oops! The truth about smoking is about 1400 times worse than that times ten!
Not only that, if you smoke, its serious harm to you is NOT something that happens only later if at all, it’s happening to YOU every day you smoke and it’s MUCH worse than lung cancer if it goes on long enough.
Here’s the deal. For every smoker who dies of lung cancer, several die of other cancers they would not have gotten if they didn’t smoke. And for every smoker who dies of any cancer there are several who die of some form of heart disease, heart attacks, fatal vascular senility, stroke, etc. The damage to your blood vessels is a reliable cause of erectile dysfunction. And, smoking speeds up the aging process too.
If lung cancer is a mouse that might not catch you, OK; but the giant, elephant sized, risk of heart disease already has you in its grasp and is beginning to squeeze you to death.
The cigarette companies don’t stress that much, do they?
You may not initially feel this happening.
But if you might be willing to quit to avoid it, did you know you can get tested to see that this process is actually happening to you already -- and is happening to you now even if you smoke only a few cigarettes a day or are in your teens?
1. HDL cholesterol helps prevent heart disease; yours should be over 50; and over 70 is even more protective. Have yours tested if you smoke. Chances are excellent yours is under 40. And whatever the reading is, if you smoke, your HDL is only about half as effective as it should be, so your effective HDL is about HALF the indicated reading.
2. The research is not clear whether lowering high homocysteine after the damage is done will help; but people who have readings of under 9.0 tend to get little heart disease and mental decline. And, people with readings well above 12.0 do tend to get heart disease and mental decline.
Have yours tested if you smoke. Smoking increases homocysteine levels. And, if you smoke, your homocysteine level may well be double what it would have been otherwise.
If you’re younger, it may be 16 when it could have been 8. If you are older, it may be 22 when it could have been 11. Ouch !!
3. Even people who are exposed to secondhand smoke have been found to have a 30 percent reduction in circulating vascular endothelial progenitor cells, a kind of cell involved in the repair and maintenance of a healthy blood vessels. Have yours tested if you smoke. It may be half what a healthy nonsmoker would have – AND it will test that way NOW.
In each of these three tests, you can see that smoking is already causing damage to your blood circulation and creating future heart disease and other really nasty diseases. And even worse, it’s disabling your body’s ability to repair the damage.
4. Breathing is also necessary to continued life. Doing it well also is a key to staying mentally sharp and being physically able.
If you smoke, have your breathing function tested NOW. Then listen as the doctor tells you how old you’d have to be to get that reading as a nonsmoker. Even new teenaged smokers are shocked at how old their lung function makes them.
Wouldn’t you try to get away if some thug tried to throw you into a concentration camp where they forced people to suffer and undergo horrible diseases?
The cigarette companies ARE that thug. If you still smoke, they’ve got you now.
It’s your life that’s at stake.
Now that you really know how bad it is, I wish you good luck in getting away soon.
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