subject: How Smoking Tobacco Can Affect Your Future [print this page] How long has it been since you began smoking tobacco cigarettes? Two or three years? Ten or twenty years? How smoking is going to affect your future really does depend on long you have been doing already and how long you continue to do it. If you stop now after only a few years of smoking, you can really diminish the harmful affects it can have on your health and the quality of your life later on. If you stop smoking now after many years of smoking, you still have the ability to reverse some of the damage smoking has already done to you and still improve the quality of life you will have in the future as well. When you compare continuing to smoke with quitting smoking, the differences are astounding.
For a young person that has only been smoking for several years, it might be easier for you to try to quit now than it will be if you wait until years down the road. The longer you smoke, the harder is it to quit for most smokers. Not only will continuing to smoke further the damage you are doing to your health, bu it could easily impact your career if you have one that could be affected because you smoke tobacco. In the job market of today, many employers do their best to avoid hiring people that smoke because insurance premiums are higher as well as the likelihood that you might have to have more time off due to illnesses than employees that do not smoke. Many employers also feel that a person that smokes might end up spending too much time with a cigarette instead of concentrating on their work as well as they should. Smoking is a distraction no matter what you might think personally.
If you are an older person that has smoked for many years already, you might very well have already suffered some of the harsher consequences from it. You might have had to take more time off from work because of smoking related illnesses. You might have even been reprimanded at your job for smoking when you were not supposed to. It is for certain that you have already discovered what a nuisance smoking is when you are trying to concentrate on your work or almost anything else for that matter. Your insurance premiums are much higher because you smoke and even if you quit right now, you would have to be stopped for years before you could even hope for a lower rate. Even quitting smoking now it would still take years for your body to repair much of the damage that has been done because of smoking and chances are a lot of the damage will never heal.
So, it really does not matter whether you are a new smoker or a long time smoker, the odds of a better life will only happen when you quit. The sooner you quit, the better the odds are in your favor. The longer you smoke, the less chance there is that you will live a long, healthy and the most productive life that you can.
