Effects Of Smoking

It is common knowledge that smoking is bad for a person’s health and for the vast majority of smokers it will lead to their premature death. This fact is used more than any other to get people to quit.

There is nothing wrong with this, but if a smoker hears the same facts over and over again, they starts to lose their impact. More emphasis should be put on the effect that smoking has on the family, especially after it has caused a premature death.

As a smoker, you will be the one to suffer the physical consequences, the aches, the pains, the not being able to breathe, the cancer and then soon after - death. You suffer for a little while and then it’s all over, nothing, no pain ever again.

But what about your family, does their pain now stop now that your gone? No, it doesn’t, they will suffer from the emotional pain for the rest of their lives. As a smoker you need to realise that quitting smoking is not just about you, it’s about your family too.

“We are all going to die sometime.” It’s an excuse I have a heard all too often from smokers when trying to justify their habit. I have never understood this. Yes we are all going to die sometime, but does that mean we should do things that bring death closer?

That day may seem far away from now, but it will be upon you before you know it.

I had an Uncle who used this saying. I say used to, because he is dead now. He died from cancer, brought on by smoking a few years back.

He died at age 64, which may seem like a good run to some. But I tell you to us, his family, it is premature. We should have had at least another 10 years of my uncle in our lives.

My family went through so much pain in that final year of his life. We had to watch him slip away from us. But can you imagine how hard it was for him? He had to lie there knowing he was causing so much emotional pain for his family and he could have prevented it all, if he had just quit years before.

One year later my family is still feeling the emotional toll from his death. My Aunty will not bury or scatter his ashes because when she dies she wants her ashes to be put with his. That is how much she loves and misses my uncle.

Do you want to suffer and have regrets on your deathbed?

Do you want your family to go through the lifelong emotional pain that your premature death will cause?

Of course you don’t, then why don’t you use these as motivation to quit. If you can’t quit smoking for you then do it for your family, they deserve to have you in their lives for as long as possible.