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Quit Smoking for Prosperity’s Sake!

Smoking is the dumbest thing ever.

You know it.

I know it.

Smokers know it.

Everyone knows it!

But, for various reasons, lots of people still smoke.

If you’re a smoker or trying to help a smoker kick that habit, I’m hoping this article will help you.

For decades, society has gotten wise to the fact that lighting a cigarette, putting the dumb thing into your mouth, and inhaling all the garbage that cigarette makers have put there (including nicotine and other substances that get you hooked on the habit), costs you personally in lots of different ways, including financially, besides seriously jeopardizing your health. Not to mention all the social side effects, especially the stigma of being a smoker, smelling like a smoker, having a smoker’s cough, and all the other baggage that comes with being a smoker.

The habit of smoking is correlated with lots of negative outcomes. It’s associated with poverty, helplessness, poor health, and overall poor decision making.

If you’re a smoker reading this, I’m guessing that you’re interested in trying (possibly for the umpteenth time) to rid yourself of the habit. You want to become a non-smoker. You already know most of the reasons why quitting smoking will make your life 1000 times better, but I’m going to review just a few of the most important.

Smoking Damages Your Health

As the evidence has mounted over the last few decades since smoking became a thing, lawmakers have begun requiring cigarette makers to state that their products absolutely do cause cancer.

There is no question about the damaging effects smoking has on your health. Each cigarette (including your next one and the one after that) you smoke is killing you. The sooner (as in, like right now!) you quit smoking, the more immediately you can stop the damage and start the healing.

Smoking Inhibits Your Financial Prosperity

This website is all about prospering, financially as well as in regards to health, relationships, and overall happiness. Smoking makes you less productive, as you have to interrupt your day on a consistent basis to step outside with your head lowered, embarrassed about the crutch you have to lean on hour after hour, day after day. Smoking destroys clothing, automobiles, the very house you live in.

According to data provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, smoking a pack of cigarettes per day costs a smoker $1,887.05 per year. For most people, that’s more than a month’s mortgage payment (or rent payment) for a pretty nice house in most areas. Smoking 2 packs per day will cost you as much as two mortgage or payments.

If the health and quality of livings costs are not sufficient motivation to quit, the direct financial cost of smoking, not counting medical bills and higher insurance premiums, is simply too high to afford continuing so smoke.

How to Quit Smoking

Fortunately for smokers, in most areas of the United States, there are resources available to help you stop smoking…permanently, based upon your willingness.

Faith-Based Stop Smoking Workshops

Many local churches have resources to help their adherents and others in the community quit smoking. My own church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has workshops led by full-time missionaries and others who spend their time as volunteers helping people quit the habit. In my religion, being free from addictive habits like smoking is highly encouraged, and is even required for meeting worthiness standards to be in the best standing in the church. That motivation alone is enough for many members to stop smoking, or to never experiment with it in the first place.

Based upon where you live, other churches in your area likely provide similar services to help you quit.

The American Lung Association and Other Organizations

There are also local courses and workshops operated by the American Lung Association and others concerned with helping people avoid lung cancer and the other ailments that come with smoking.

The American Lung Association has a Freedom from Smoking course that costs $99.95 for an individual. Their course can be operated in a group for more support, which brings the cost per participant down lower.

Home Study Course to Quit Smoking

If for some reason you prefer to not be involved with a support group to quit smoking, there are “home study courses” available that have been effective for many former smokers.

One home study course with which I am affiliated is called “The Complete Quit System“. This system is designed to eliminate the desire to smoke, instead of simply turning off the desire temporarily.

Whatever Your Preference: Quit Smoking to Enjoy Prosperity

Whatever your reason for starting the habit of smoking, now is the time to stop. Not tomorrow. Not when you finish your next pack of cigarettes or hit some other milestone.

Now!

I hope you find these resources beneficial, and I wish you the best in your journey to stop smoking.

Good luck!

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