Reasons to Quit Smoking ““ 101 Funny & Not-so-Funny Incentives
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”– Archimedes
Do you have a “long enough lever”? in your life to quit smoking? With long list of reasons, you can do anything – even quit smoking.
(Ordered chronologically and by importance)
- Wasting money on killing yourself
- Smelling like an ashtray
- Your bland taste buds
- The embarrassing smoking smell of your
- Even coffee tastes worst
- Wondering if someone is going to get sick from riding in your “smoker’s”? car
- Your home won’t stink
- The whizzing when you breathe
- You alright get enough lung population by living in the city
- You won’t have to move to the country to breath clean air
- Poor circulation
- Low energy
- Feeling gorse
- No amount of gum covers your ashtray breath
- Yellow teeth
- Yellow Stained fingers
- Living an extra 7 years
- Accomplishing what only 3.5% of smokers do a year*: quitting for a year or longer (According to the Surgeon General’s Report, 1990)
- Grayish dull complexion caused by smoking
- Preventing premature aging without surgery or fancy creams
- Scaly skin caused by smoking
- Having to look for a cigarette
- Having to ask for a light
- Those millions of thoughts about smoking
- Wasting time planning your smoke breaks
- Experiencing panic-attacks when you’re not able to have a cigarette
- Freezing outside in bad weather
- Having money to go back to school, work less hours, or go a vacation
- Extra money to purchase gift’s for loved ones
- Hanging out with the mostly unhealthy and pessimistic “smokers”? crowd
- No energy to exercise
- Three words “sex, impotence, loser”?
- Not being able to a flight climb stairs without losing your breathe
- The “a smoker”? unhealthy life style
- Low self-confidence of being a smoker
- People looking down on you for being a “˜smoker’
- Being turned down for life insurance
- Potential employer not hiring you because you’re a smoker
- Not being able to find an apartment because no one wants to rent to smokers
- concentration
- All the interruptions in your life
- Less running around
- The negative drain of being addicted to something
- Non-smoker hate kissing smokers, and most likely will NOT
- The thought of harming your unborn baby
- Second-hand smoke kills family members too
- 75% of children who smoke because their parents do
- Teens that smoke are seven times more likely do elicit drugs
- Trips to the convenience store in the middle of the night
- Waking-up in the middle of the night just to have a smoke
- Craving a cigarette and being irritated if you don’t get one
- Less time to spend with your family
- Less time inhaling toxic poisons
- Less time inhaling other smokers second hand smoke
- Never having to sit in another smoke filled room
- Feeling and looking younger
- The smell smoke in your hair
- The smell smoke in your clothes
- A toxic and cancer filled body
- Aching joints
- Muscle pains
- That constant nagging cough
- Getting a “colds”? all the time
- A weak immune system
- Only being able to date less-than-perfect smokers
- Burning holes your clothes
- Worrying about burning down your home
- Worrying about burning down some one else’s property or home
- Encouraging your children to play with fire
- Having money to go on “date night”? to dinner and the movies
- Time to start a new hobby
- Time to start an exercise program
- Time to clean your body out
- Finally throwing clothes with burn holes in them
- Smoking causes infertility
- Your baby will thank you
- Your breast milk will be safe to drink
- All of your family members will be proud of you
- All of your friends will be proud of you
- All of your co-workers will be proud of you
- Having lunch money every day now
- You won’t ever be called “˜a smoker’ again
- Having to bum cigarettes from others
- Worry about going for a long time without a smoke like in a movie or on a plane
- Sleepless nights
- The sad fact your first thought in your day is about “smoking”?
- You’ll instantly be sexier and more attractive to people even non-smokers
- No more excuses about not quitting
- Literally not being able to smell the roses
- Other people thinking you’re dim-witted
- Losing creditability as an professional or expert because of your dumb habit
- Your mom never asking you to quit again
- Having the title of “ex-smoker”?
- Quitting before you get cancer or die
- Proving all those people wrong who said “you’ll never quit”?
- Dying a peaceful death
- Giving the athletic performance advantage to the non-smokers
- Burning holes in your carpets
- Cleaning ashtrays
- Cleaning up spill tobacco in your purse or desk
- Hiding the fact you still haven’t quit yet
Right now, please write out your top 10, print it them off, or email them to a friend. I hope you found a long list of reasons to quit smoking now, long enough to easily quit smoking today.
Sources:
1US Surgeon General’s Report, 1990, p. vi
2According to the American Cancer Society, the average economic costs of smoking are estimated to be approximately $3,391 per smoker per year
*** According for the average inflation cost of Cigarettes
**** U.S. Fire Administration. A Profile of Fire in the United States, 1989-1998. 2000. Available online at: www.usfa.fema.gov
5Smoking 25 cigarettes (one pack) a day for an average 4 minutes (smoking and traveling to the designated smoking spot) equals 608 hours and 20 minutes of conscious time per year.
