Take a Giant Stride Toward Good Health

Take a Giant Stride Toward Good Health

Fitness and good health are not as instant as boil-in-the-bag meals. There is one thing you can do, however, that will immediately start you on the right road to feeling better,looking better, and becoming healthier: If you smoke, quit. Now. Participate in the great American Smokeout, an annual nationwide stop-smoking initiative. Do whatever it takes. Plaster a patch on your body, join a support group, and undergo hypnosis. Not only will quitting be good for you, it will show you that you can accomplish anything you set your mind to.
Smoking has been proven to be an addiction. You probably know that. If you smoke,you also know that it pollutes your lungs and predisposes you to such horrific diseases as emphysema, cancer of the lung or throat, heart disease, and stroke. Do you realize,however, that young children in a smoking household are more likely to suffer from asthma, nonsmokers? Is that fair?
Even if you and your family dodge the disease bullet, smoking drains your pocketbook,causes wrinkles, stains your teeth, and in the growing community of fit nonsmokers,makes you a social outcast. No other decision, adhered to firmly, can do so much to improve your life. When you begin to reshape yourself by reshaping your life, you will find workouts to be easier and more enjoyable if you become a nonsmoker.