Today let’s talk about smoking and diabetes. There are millions of people who smoke and millions of people dies because of smoking. Here’s some statistical facts about smoking according to WHO:
Key facts
- Tobacco kills up to half of its users.
- Tobacco kills around 6 million people each year. More than 5 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while more than 600 000 are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.
- Nearly 80% of the world’s 1 billion smokers live in low- and middle-income countries.
Even second hand smoke has detrimental effects on people who inhale it. Here’s a short list of its effects:
- In adults, second-hand smoke causes serious cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, including coronary heart disease and lung cancer. In infants, it causes sudden death. In pregnant women, it causes low birth weight.
- Almost half of children regularly breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke in public places.
- Second-hand smoke causes more than 600 000 premature deaths per year.
- In 2004, children accounted for 28% of the deaths attributable to second-hand smoke.
Source: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs339/en/
Many people are releasing their anxiety and stress through smoking which makes it more difficult to quit. Nicotine is very addictive but is very harmful to your health.
Experts say smoking increases insulin resistance, blood glucose levels, and damages blood vessels. The question is, how can one quit smoking? Let’s watch how this guy quit.
