"I’ve been a smoker for more than 15 years but since undergoing my cold laser application, I’ve had virtually no cravings. I tried so many other methods but none worked. Even military boot camp couldn’t shake my dependence on cigarettes, but after just one session with Quit Smoking Laser Spa of NJ, I haven’t smoked in almost a month. Thanks a lot!"
-Adam Helschein, age 31
smoked almost two packs a day since I was a teenager and tried just about everything to quit from nicotine gums & patches to the prescription drug Chantix—but nothing worked! Since undergoing low level laser light treatment, I’ve been smoke free for almost 6 months now. My health is better than it had been in years and I feel great. I’m proud to call myself an ex-smoker and confident that I'll never be going back."
-Dave Cicatiello, age 37
13 UNLUCKY FACTS ABOUT SMOKING THAT PROVE YOU SHOULD QUIT
- There are more than 1.1 billion smokers in the world and that number is expected to rise to an excess of 1.6 billion over the next 20 years. Many of those people will suffer from prolonged illnesses and an untimely death if they don’t quit smoking.
- More than 50% of long term smokers who choose not to quit will die from a horrific and painful tobacco-related illness.
- Smoking and tobacco products are directly responsible for more than 5,000,000 deaths annually throughout the globe; more than 400,000 of them right here in America.
- Every 8 seconds... someone in the world loses their life as a direct result of their addiction to nicotine. In the United States, 1 in every 5 deaths can be directly attributed to tobacco use.
- Smoking and tobacco use is known to be a significant factor in the onset of heart disease, circulatory problems, emphysema, bronchial pneumonia, respiratory disease, impotence, halitosis, and more than a dozen cancers.
- Every year, over $150 billion dollars is spent in the U.S.A. on healthcare costs associated with smoking. That is more than $3500 in healthcare expenditure per smoker.
- The CDC estimates that the average long term male smoker will live 13 years less than a non-smoker or former smoker; and that the average long term female smoker will live 14 ½ years less than a non-smoker or former smoker.
- Cigarettes contain more than 4,000 dangerous chemicals and more than 60 cancer causing carcinogens. The additives in cigarettes include ambergris, more commonly known as whale vomit.
- Cigarette smoke and second hand smoke accounts for 90 percent of the benzene exposure encountered by citizens of the United States. Benzene is known amongst the medical community to be a cause of leukemia and other terminal cancers.
- Every year between 500,000 and 1 million asthmatic kids suffer increased symptoms and severe asthma attacks due to the second hand smoke they’re unwittingly exposed to. Some of them die as a result of these severe asthmatic episodes.
- The average U.S. smoker spends over $300 a month and more than $3500 a year on their cigarette habit.
- Smoking not only kills people, it also kills their productivity at work. The average smoker spends approximately 18 days worth of time each year on "smoke breaks."
- The first report linking smoking and tobacco usage to disease and death was published in 1859, but the tobacco industry still spends $15.5 billion dollars a year (or $42 million dollars a day) to promote tobacco use and keep you addicted to a product that is killing you.