Smoking - what can we do to quit?

According to last year’s statistics, more and more women smoke and more and more women become ill in Hungary as the result of the side effects of smoking.

Data from the Hungarian Central Statistical Office’s publication for 2013 show:  between the years 2000 and 2007, in a population of one hundred thousand, the yearly diagnosed cases of cancer was around 700 for men and around 600 for women.  The next rise lasted until 2011 at which time there were 800 cases for men and more than 700 for women.  By 2012, the numbers rose in the case of women while in men, it began to decrease slightly.

In the developed world, as in Hungary, improper diet, lack of physical activity and smoking are the main causes of diseases and early mortality.

Here we list the positive effects of giving up smoking:

• your lung capacity will increase
• you will no longer cough
• your blood circulation will improve and your blood pressure decrease
• the risk of developing cancer as the result of smoking will be reduced
• as early as five years after giving up smoking, the chance of developing lung cancer is decreased
• the odds of becoming infertile decrease
• the pregnant woman who stops smoking, reduces the risk of premature delivery
• the number of fractures decrease
• those who already suffer from cancer, will react faster and better to treatments and the probability of metastasis is reduced.

Most women put off giving up smoking for fear of gaining weight.  How is it that we are not afraid of illnesses?  Let us not forget, that we women are responsible for ourselves, our children and our family. 

We wish you many happy and healthy smoke free Woman’s Days!