Reasons to Stop Smoking
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Better Health

Every smoker can find many reasons to stop smoking, but better health and well being are the most frequently stated
by smokers. Smoking is the leading risk factor for many diseases like emphysema (COPD), lung cancer and
cardiovascular disease.

According to The Centers for Disease Control, smoking is responsible for approximately 1 in every 5 deaths in the
U.S. – that’s 400,000 smoking related deaths per year. This risk can be a powerful reason to stop smoking.

Studies show that even smoking only 1-4 cigarettes per day can have a significantly negative impact on your
health by increasing your risk for death by all causes over non-smokers. These light smokers have an almost 3 times
greater risk of dying from ischemic heart disease and women have a dramatically increased risk of dying from lung
cancer over non-smoking women.

Family

Most everyone wants to live healthy and productive lives. Our family can offer tremendous reasons to stop smoking.
But, very few people stop smoking as a result of a family member asking them to, but rather, they found more
personal reasons to stop smoking.

For instance, they wanted to be around their family longer and be more active in their children’s or grandchildren’s
lives. Ultimately, these can be the most motivating reasons to stop smoking.

Saving Money

We all know that smoking is expensive, so pocketing the saved money every week seems like a great reason to stop
smoking, but despite the high price of cigarettes, people still buy them. So saving money, at first does not appear to
be very motivating. But there are hidden or what they call indirect costs that can be motivating.

  • In the year 2000, smoking related COPD accounted for 8 million trips to the
    doctor's office, 1.5 million trips to the E.R. and 726,000 admissions to the
    hospital

  • It is estimated the total cost of just COPD alone in 2004 was $37.2 billion

  • Between 1997-2001, cigarette smoking cost the economy over $167 billion in
    annual health care dollars and lost productivity, or an average of $3,702 per
    adult smoker. Today, that dollar figure has risen to over $193 billion!  
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