WHY QUIT? Below are some of the benefits of giving up smoking

Financial gains

Every coin counts.

Quitting can help you save lots of money, which you can channel into something else.

The financial gains from quitting include savings from as little as-

  • 5 ksh a day (cost of the cheapest cigarette)

  • 35 ksh a week

  • 140 ksh a month

  • 1680 ksh a year

The cheapest pack of cigarettes is sold at 260ksh

Quitting means saving;

  • 1,820 ksh a day

  • 7,280 ksh a month-cost of a month of electricity in some households

  • 87,360 ksh a year-cost of a holiday in Dubai

  • 436,800 ksh in 5 years- equivalent of school fees for 4 years for some university courses

Health benefits for you

The longer you quit the more cumulative benefits you and your loved ones enjoy.

By quitting, you reduce your risk of AT LEAST 16 types of cancers.

EVEN IF you have suffered from lung or heart disease or from a new cancer, science has shown there are still benefits to you if you quit.

Early benefits; (As early as 2 weeks up to 3 months after quitting)

  • You can breath easier

  • Less coughing

  • Lower chance of a heart attack (reduced blood to the heart), which can KILL.

By 5 years

  • Lower chance of a stroke (reduced blood supply to the brain)

  • Reduced cancer of the mouth, food pipe, throat and cervix

  • It gets easier to exercise as your breathing gets better.

By 10 years

  • Reduced cancer of the kidney, lung, liver, bladder, stomach and pancreas

15 years

Your chances of a stroke/heart attack are close to that of someone who never smoked

Other benefits

  • improved dental health and skin health

  • quitting improves your chances of getting pregnant and the effect of fertility treatments if you're trying for a baby.

  • If you already have cancer, continuing to smoke increases the chance of getting an additional cancer and an early death.

  • Quitting smoking also reduces the risk of complications after an operation.

Many Kenyans have lost their hands and feet due to smoking.

The chemicals in the cigarette affects the blood vessels to the hands and leg and this makes tissues die off. This can affect a finger or a toe or lead to loss of a whole arm and leg. This same process leads to problems with erectile dysfunction and fertility.

This is a life changing event.

It affects your ability to work and perform different activities .

By quitting you get to keep your hands and feet healthy.

Benefits to the family if you QUIT

Unborn baby

  • Less chances of a premature birth

  • Less chances of an underweight baby

Children

  • Less chances of chest problems

  • Less chance of sudden death

  • Lower chance of ear infections, meningitis and cancers in children-especially blood cancers

Other adults (yourself included)- Less chances of

  • Cancers of the lung, breast, throat, mouth, cervix, vocal cords, bladder, kidney, liver, pancreas, blood-leukemia, intestine, stomach,

  • Heart attacks-(reduced blood to the heart which can lead to death)

  • Strokes-(low blood to the brain which can lead to paralysis)

  • Breathing problems and lung damage

  • Diabetes

  • Infections like TB pneumonia, colds, flu,meningitis

  • Infertility due to early menopause, erectile dysfunction,

  • Gum infections

  • Eye diseases

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