Temasek Engineering School, Singapore

i meet up a friend of mine few days ago, and we did some catching up. then she mentioned that she felt that she is so blessed after knowing that her boyfriend quit smoking for the sake of her.

what i wanna know is that do girls/guys only kick this bad habit only for someone else’s sake?

i know quitting is tough, but not able to quit is more tough. let’s think about the harm that this addictive drug has caused to your body. reports has shown that tobacco-related diseases are some of the biggest killers in the world today. in the United States some 500,000 deaths per year are attributed to smoking and a recent study estimated that as much as 1/3 of China’s male population will suffer shortened life-spans due to smoking. not only the people who smoke suffer, their loved ones suffer as well.

okay, let me share something personal. my grandpapa smoke for years and he was found with last stage of lung cancer at the age of 75. it hurts so much with you see someone closed to you waiting for death on the bed and you can’t do anything about it. he left us after enduring with the pain for almost 2 years. i bet no one want to experience something that i did.

oh ya, if you notice and look around you, more and more younger kids nowadays tend to smoke. is it really so cool to smoke? smoking causes bad breathe, you know!

another important thing is that there are effects of smoking on sperm cells. there is increasing evidence that the harmful products of tobacco smoking kill sperm cells. meaning smoking decrease the possibility for guys to become a father in the future and for the girls, smoking increase spontaneous abortion. a number of studies have shown that tobacco use is a significant factor in spontaneous abortions among pregnant smokers, and that it contributes to a number of other threats to the health of the fetus. second-hand smoke appears to present an equal danger to the fetus, as one study noted that “heavy paternal smoking increased the risk of early pregnancy loss.” 

for the sake of your health, start your quit smoking plan NOW! don’t wait. many of my friends did it, so can you!   (:

credit photobucket for images & wikipedia for the sources of studies