A Reason To Quit Smoking – Horribly Stained Fingers
In order to stop smoking many people need to look to motivational reasons. Reasons to stop smoking often give a smoker encouragement to quit smoking and help them realize what smoking is actually doing to them in terms of negative side effects. There really isn’t a shortage to reasons for quitting as there are literally and endless amount. You’ve got an added risk of heart disease, bad breath, increased risk of lung cancer, and so on. With that said, it usually takes a very specific reason in order for a smoker to find importance in whatever reason it is. Not all reasons are going to do it for all smokers.
A reason for quitting smoking that I’d like to talk about today is that of horribly stained fingers. Stained fingers is just one of the many negative physical side effects of regular smoking. It is something that is caused by prolonged cigarette addiction and is something that isn’t desirable in the slightest. Believe me, I speak from first hand experience. The look of cigarette stained fingers is absolutely disgusting. When I first saw the effect on a smoker I know I was literally shocked. I’m pretty sure I even yelled out some profanities. Stained fingers caused by cigarette smoking stick out like a sore thumb and it isn’t a good kind of sore thumb if there every was such a thing. The sad thing about this physical side effect is that it doesn’t take long for it to pop up on your fingers. Yes, it is caused by prolonged usage. But, prolonged usage can be as little as a few years of smoking. That is all it takes in some cases for stains on your fingers to become noticeable. A main determinant in the time it takes for your fingers to become stained from cigarette smoking is the amount of cigarettes that you smoke.
I’m not going to sit here and lie to you telling you that your fingers can become stained by smoking just a few cigarettes. What I will tell you, though, is that stained fingers are a very real threat to you if you are someone who smokes a sizable amount of cigarettes each and every day. I’d also like to make it clear to you that for most smokers, there addiction only gets worse as time goes on. You might only be smoking occasionally today but in a few years time you could very well be smoking a pack a day. This is something that is very dependent on you and your ability to control your addiction but it is something worth considering all the same.
No, stained fingers aren’t a harm to your health. No, stained fingers aren’t one of the most convincing reasons to quit smoking. However, this reason to quit is definitely worth thinking about. Having stained fingers is going to be incredibly embarrassing and incredibly annoying. But aside from that it makes you wonder, “If cigarette smoking is doing this to my fingers, then what the heck is it doing to my lungs (insert any important body part/function)?”.
