By how many years does smoking reduce lifespan?
Not only does your body and other organs suffer the harm of cigarette smoking but it also reduces your average lifespan. Recently, a research conducted by the University College of London has revealed that a person who smokes one cigarette a day has a shorter lifespan than a person who does not smoke. Smoking one cigarette a day can shave 20 minutes off your average lifespan. This report published in the Journal of Addiction states that smoking one cigarette reduces the life expectancy of men by 17 minutes and women by 22 minutes.
This research states that if a person smokes 10 cigarettes a day and quits smoking on January 1, 2025, he can reduce the loss of one full day of life by January 8. By 5th February he can extend his life expectancy by one week and by 5th August he can extend his life by 1 month. If you do not smoke for a whole year, it reduces your loss of 50 days.
Smoking cigarettes reduces lifespan by so many years
Dr Sarah Jackson, lead research fellow at UCL’s Alcohol and Tobacco Research Group, said: ‘People generally know that smoking is harmful, but they underestimate the extent of it.’ People who do not quit smoking are closer to their lives. Let’s reduce it by a decade. That means such people lose 10 years of valuable time and life.
The body becomes the home of diseases
It is not that smoking reduces your life expectancy in old age. Rather, it starts poisoning the beautiful and beautiful moments of your life. Diseases start when you are healthy. In such a situation, when you are 50-60 years old, you start getting diseases of 70 years old. This means that a 60-year-old smoker will generally have the same health profile as a 70-year-old non-smoker.
Smoking has a bad effect on these organs
Health experts recommend quitting smoking completely. Smoking is known to cause many health conditions like heart disease and stroke. Smoking increases the risk of these dangerous conditions by about 50%. Smoking has bad effects on lungs, heart and brain.
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