Free Quit Smoking Course Part 1 Of 10 - The Scale Of The Problem
July 7th, 2008 by admin
Welcome to part one of this free quit smoking course.
Research has shown that people can only quit smoking when they really have a motive to quit smoking. It is not just a matter of knowing that you should quit smoking but also a matter of understanding why you need to quit smoking.
Understanding the likelihood of ill health from smoking is a good motivator for quitting smoking. It is an important first step that you must take because unless you want to quit smoking, no amount of effort or energy will get you to quit smoking.
Smokers delude themselves:
The number of people who die worldwide as a result of tobacco use is truly staggering. The actual risks are enormously high and whilst smokers know that smoking is bad for them, they shy away from the reality.
Half of all lifetime smokers will die as a direct result of smoking, in their prime years between 35 and 69 years of age!
Unfortunately, most smokers go through their lives believing that they will be one of the lucky ones who gets away with it and does not suffer from a smoking related disease.
Alas, this rarely the case! Your health is always under attack whilst you are a smoker and most smoker suffer from non-fatal ailments throughout their lives as smokers.
Smoking in numbers
- A quarter of the current population of North America, Cuba, Europe and the former USSR over the age of 35 will die of smoking or tobacco related illness.
- Worldwide, about 4.2 million people a year die of smoking or tobacco related diseases. This number is increasing every year too!
- By 2035, as more people can afford to smoke in the developing world, the annual death toll of smoking and tobacco consumption is expected to reach 10 million per year!
- By 2035, the annual death rate from smoking will be equivalent to the average annual civilian death rate during World War 2.
- In the 20th century, 100 million people died from tobacco use. It is expected that 10 times this number, 1 billion people, will die as a result of tobacco use in the 21st century!
- The industrialized world sees about 2.1 million people die every year from tobacco.
So how can we put that in terms that will make it more understandable for you?
The worldwide death toll from tobacco consumption is about 11,500 per day. That’s a lot, but how much? Let me put that in really stark terms for you:
A 9/11 terrorist attack every 6 hours!
Or…
A fully loaded jumbo jet crashing every 49 minutes!
Or…
A holocaust every 16 months!
Or…
5 Hiroshimas per month!
About 440,000 Americans die as a result of smoking, every year compared to 400,000 who gave their lives during WW2. The number is falling slowly thankfully; as it is in most developed nations, as more and more quit smoking.
The American death toll ‘thanks’ to the tobacco industry is 3 jumbo jets a day - or a twin towers attack every 2½ days!
Either way, these are truly staggering numbers and to think that it might not be you is a pretty risky attitude to take - don’t you think?
To put it another way, would you play Russian roulette? I doubt it but at least in Russian roulette you have a 1 in 6 chance of survival. Smoking gives you miserable odds of 1 in 2 by comparison.
Luckily, smoking is dying pastime in developed nations, thanks to efforts made by to encourage us all to quit. Unfortunately, the tobacco industry is ensuring that it is making up for this lost market in the developed world by turning to the developing world.
In Part Two of this free quit smoking course we will look at what makes smoking a cigarette such a dangerous pass-time.
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