If you are a smoker who just doesn’t want to quit, then you are subjecting yourself to a shorter life span than average.
By continuing to smoke, you have a greater chance of losing 10 years off your life, time that could be spent with your loved ones.
You also subject yourself to a general decline in health during those last years of your life while you are afflicted with one or several health complications as a result from smoking. These are health struggles that you also subject your loved ones to witness. Is it worth it?
What Quitting Smoking Can Do For You
Now that you know that a long-term smoker, on average, has a life expectancy of about 10 years less than a non-smoker, it is time to seek support and help to stop smoking now.
If you have smoked since your teen years or young adulthood, your chances of reversing any damage is significant. By stopping before the age of 35, you greatly improve your risk of any damage compared to people who have never smoked.
If you choose to stop smoking prior to the age of 50, the risk of dying from smoking-related diseases decreases by fifty percent. You can decrease that even further by making better health, nutrition, and diet choices.
Not Quitting Can Kill You
Quitting smoking not only dramatically improves your overall life expectancy, but it can improve your general well-being and overall health. No matter what your age or how long you’ve been smoking, it’s never too late to quit.
If you are hard-headed and need greater evidence on the decrease in life expectancy of smokers, take a look at this very long list of celebrities whose shortened life spans were caused from smoking tobacco.
As you can see, so many talented individuals died much earlier than the average life expectancy. And those who lived until their 80s struggled through many years of health afflictions—such as heart attack, emphysema, lung cancer, and throat cancer—due to their dangerous addiction to smoking.
Celebrity or not, no smoker is immune from smoking-related illnesses or even death.
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What a great idea! We should all quit smoking because it is no longer a politically correct thing to do. Smokers are treated worse than any other group on the planet, and there is nobody speaking up for them. So, we can all quit, live longer but probably homeless, since they are “revamping” social security, and then we can enjoy all those extra years of adult diapers, being fed, and Alzheimer’s. Ya, that’s a much better plan.