It is well known that there is a direct link between smoking and heart disease. Smoking also increases the risk of other serious health problems.
Even if you smoke a small amount of cigarettes can make a significant difference to your heart disease risk.
Quit smoking and heart disease risk decreases and continues to descrease over time.
Health effects of smoking
It is often overlooked that smoking is a major contributor to heart disease as the more obvious symptoms are difficulty with breathing and in the long term lung cancer.
If you smoke then you should not under estimate the health effects of smoking both generally health and your heart in particular.
You have not only yourself to consider as your secondhand smoke will be causing health problems as well as increasing the possibility of heart disease to those in close contact with you.
If you smoke, or quit within the last year, then your assessment will tell you the additional risk of you having heart disease that comes from smoking as part of your lifestyle. If you are not able to quit at this time then you may find that reducing nicotine and tar from your smoking and heart disease may be postponed.
If you need help to quit smoking get expert help at http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/
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