Today I bring you phrases to stop smoking that will give you motivation to quit smoking, one of the habits with the worst consequences for health. They are from different authors and with different messages.
Before, and to encourage you to stop or not even try it, I leave you some statistics and effects that show the negative consequences of smoking:
- Smoking kills approximately 6 million people each year. 5 million are consumers and more than 600,000 are passive smokers or exposed to secondhand smoke. This is a higher mortality than that caused by drugs and alcohol combined.
- Smoking is the factor responsible for 33% of cancers in men and 10% in women. Up to 90% of lung cancers are caused by tobacco.
- Smokers have a mortality rate higher than 70%, related to cardiovascular diseases, chronic bronchitis, lung cancer, pulmonary emphysema…
- If you smoke 20 cigarettes it is equivalent to the pollution alert level in a city.
- It causes premature wrinkling of the lips, eyes (crow's feet), cheeks and chin.
- It causes tooth stains, infections and cavities.
- Bad breath, body odor and stains on the hands.
- Women who smoke tobacco are less likely to become pregnant. The combination of obesity, tobacco and caffeine reduces the probability of having a child by 30%.
- It can cause male infertility.
-Take care of your body. It is the only place you have to live.-Jim Rohn.
-The best way to quit smoking is to simply quit.-Edith Zittler.
-You will always be better if you stop smoking, it is never too late to do it.-Loni Anderson.
-The true face of tobacco is disease, death and horror, not the glamor and sophistication that the tobacco industry tries to portray.-David Byrne.
-Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.-Loni Anderson.
19-Tobacco helps you lose weight: first one lung and then another.-Alfred E. Neuman.
-The cigarette is the only consumable product that used directly kills the consumer.-Gro Brundtland.
-It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.-Benjamin Franklin.
-Smoking kills. If they kill you, you have lost a very important part of your life.-Brooke Shields.
41-Exercise can not counteract the damage you do to your body while you continue smoking.-Kenneth H. Cooper.
-Smoking is hateful for the smell, harmful to the brain and dangerous for the lungs.-Rey Jaime I.
-Thousands of Americans quit smoking every day - dying.-Unknown author.
-I count as braver the one who overcomes his desires than the one who conquers his enemies, because the most difficult victory is over oneself.-Aristotle.
-With self-discipline almost anything is possible.-Theodore Roosevelt.
-Better health, more energy, clean teeth, longer life, better skin; just some of the reasons to quit smoking.
-What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. If you are willing to do it, it is another issue.-Peter F. Drucker.
-The awareness that health is dependent on the habits we control, makes us the first generation in history that largely determines its own destiny.-Jimmy Carter.
-The secret of getting ahead is to start.-Mark Twain.
-We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.-Aristotle.
-The most significant change in a person's life is the change in attitude. Correct attitudes produce correct actions.-Willam J. Johnston.
-The world has a habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.-Napoleon Hill.
-99% of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.-George Washington Carver.
-The curious paradox is that when I accept myself, I can change.-Carl Rogers.
-Your life is in your hands; to make of her what you want.-John Kehoe.
-Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.-James A. Baldwin.
-The tobacco kills half the life of smokers.-Alex Bobak.
-After years of denial and lies, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acquaintance comes too late but we must welcome it. You can be the beginning of cleaning the air.-Bill Clinton.
-Man is not imprisoned by habit. Big changes can be brought about by crises, once they are recognized and understood.-Norman Cousins.
24-Great works are not carried out by force, but by perseverance.-Samuel Johnson.
-I'd rather kiss a cow on the snout than a smoker on the mouth.-Paul Carvel.
-Things don't change; we change.-Henry David Thoreau.
-Readjusting is a difficult process, but most of us need it at one time or another.-Arthur Christopher Benson.
-Impotence is one of the greatest dangers of smoking cigarettes.-Loni Anderson.
19-Habit is stronger than reason.-George Sanayana.
-The more difficult the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.-Thomas Paine.
-When the patterns are broken, a new world emerges.-Tuli Kupferberg.
-If you want to change your life, change your mind.-Terry Martin.
-Every time you light a cigarette, you are saying that your life is not worth living.-Unknown author.
-The best way to smoke is to carry wet cigarettes.-Unknown author.
-Replacing the smoke in your face with a smile, will replace the illness of your life with happiness in tomorrow.-Unknown author.
-Smoking says a lot about your personality. Show that you do not care about your health, your loved ones or the influence on your children.-Unknown author.
-Only a fool would put his lips at the other end of a burning fire.-Unknown author.
-If you do not stop smoking, you risk disease and death. If you do, you will have happiness and health.-Unknown author.
-Smoking is a habit that steals money, wastes your time and kills you.-Unknown author.
-Burns calories, not cigarettes.-Author unknown.
-Smoking cigarettes is like paying to make your life shorter, the stupidest thing anyone can do.-Unknown author.
-Giving up smoking can be one of the hardest things in life, but at least you will have a life.-Unknown author.
-They can because they think they can.-Virgilio.
-Smoking is like telling the world that you do not value the life that you have the opportunity to enjoy.- Lifeder.com.
-Giving up smoking is the best habit you can adopt.