Think about it

I got a case in the hospital where my patient was suffering from diabetes. On probing further, he said that he smoked almost one packet of cigarette every day. He said that he had started smoking when he was 17 years old (due to peer pressure) and now he could just not quit smoking. He came to me a few times and after careful analysis and detailed medical studies, we had to tell him that he would have to get his leg amputated to save his own life. He was in tears and I too was very sad to have given him this information when he was just 32 years old. He survived only till 35 years and I still think I could have saved him if I had met him earlier in his life.

Next factor is the smoking. 

While there is no question the whole world and all the countries are trying their population to cut down smoking or quit smoking, but smoking still remains high.  If anything, research is showing, actually all the advertisement in India which are very alarming advertisement against smoking causing lung cancer, etc.

but smoking is actually going up.  It has gone up 7%.  In US, it has gone down, 7% yes.

Smoking tobacco is absolutely a very important factor to control heart attack.

• Very important factor for stroke.
• Very important factor for decreasing blood supply to our legs or peripheral vascular disease.
• If we quit smoking and if we can continue to quit smoking for 2 years,
• so risk of heart attack actually dramatically goes down,
• and if we really continue not to smoke for 5 years, then our risk is as good as that we have not smoked. 

So, we should never give up, we should keep trying to quit smoking. 

It will definitely promote our heart health.