Should Seniors Quit Smoking?

Perhaps they need to look at the cigarette facts. As recently as a couple of years ago there were over eighteen million smokers over the age of forty five, nine percent of these were over the age of sixty five. Of these eighteen million smokers two and a half percent die each year of smoking related illnesses. That shows how terrible cigarette smoking truly is.

Those who smoke cigarettes and are seniors continue to increase their risks. They are twice as likely to succumb to a stroke if they are men and one and a half times more likely if they are women. They are sixty percent more likely to have a heart attack and have twice as much chance of succumbing to Alzheimer’s disease. They are also more likely to wind up with cataracts some of which will be severe enough to blind them. Smokers are likely to live ten to fourteen years less than they otherwise would if they did not smoke. Those ten to fourteen years could be their retirement years or the period of time when their grandchildren are being born. They must ask themselves if smoking cigarettes is truly worth missing their grandchildren over.

Too often someone who is older assumes that the damage has already been done and so what is the point of quitting, but this is not true. Even a senior adds back a few years once they stop smoking. They diminish the damage done to their lungs and will actually begin to breathe noticeably better after they quit. Interestingly it seems that the improvements are more noticeable in women than in men. This all proves that there is no age at which it is unwise to quit smoking.

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