Quit Smoking - And Improve Your Life

Help and advise on how to stop Smoking

Welcome to Quit Smoking, within these pages you will find help and advice on how to quit smoking, as well as imformation about what it is you are actually inhaling and why it is so addictive.

There are pages about what happens to your body when you quit smoking and how quickly those positive effetcs happen. Along with these disccussions there are pages about different methods that can be used to help you quit smoking. There is also a personal account of the one of many people who die each year from smoking related illnesses.

Here are some numbers for you to contemplate while looking at the rest of this site

In the UK in the 50 years between 1950 and 2000 some 6.3 Million people died from smoking related causes. Of which about 3.2 Million were classed as being middle aged, on average these people could have expected to live for another 21 years if they had not smoked.

Again in the UK in the year 2000 there were 19,530 deaths from non-medical causes, i.e. Murder, Suicide, Road Accidents, Falls etc. These deaths, in general, get reported in the media and the authorities spend a significant amount of time and resources on reducing these deaths. Now during the same year there were nearly six times as many deaths from smoking related causes, that's 115,000 people who lost their lives to smoking. (data from Deathsfromsmoking.net)