It's not too late to decide to quit smoking at any stage of your life, but it's not easy either. To quit smoking, the smoker needs to be well determined and dedicated. The decision to quit smoking needs a reason to motivate yourself.

The harmful effects of smoking given below might help you take the decision to quit smoking and lead a happy and healthy life:

• Affects our mind: The research done by Internal Medicine has shown that smoking can confuse the mind. Smoking is associated with memory problems, especially if you are amongst middle aged group. A study in the past accomplished that old aged smokers have high risk of suffering from cognitive decline and dementia against non-smokers.
• Diabetes Mellitus: One more fine reason to quit smoking is that it can result in diabetes mellitus. It's initiated that 44% of smokers are at high risk of 2 diabetes mellitus than non smokers.
• Affects Immune System: In addition smoking weakens immune system against infections. Smokers between 19 to 64 years are at higher risk of pneumonia and thus, pneumococcal vaccine is a must as they are at a greater risk than the people who don't smoke.
• Natural Menopause and Infertility: For young age smokers physical conditions like natural menopause and infertility have become quite common. Chemicals in cigarette smoke may reason menopause as the chemicals can destroy egg cells in the ovaries which decreases egg cell store.
• Dull Vision: This is one more reason to motivate you to give up smoking because several studies have shown that there is a link between smoking and eye sight. Especially at age correlated macular degeneration, may eternally cause partial or complete blindness.
• Weakens you Financially: people mindlessly spend money on buying cigarettes. You will be far better financially, if you don't smoke cigarettes. Most smokers, just like most drinkers, badly underrate amount of money spent by them. If you save the money you have spent on smoking for 2-3 months, you might have a substantial amount of money saved by the end.
• Less Socially Acceptable: Most of the people know very well that smoking is awful for them but they really don't understand the fact. They obviously know the health threats but they just ignore them. But now smoking has become lesser acceptable in the society because of its adverse effects. It is even banned at many public places, pubs, trains, buses etc. You won't find any ash trays in any restaurants these days. People look down the smokers.
• Eats your life away: cigarette is a slow poison and eats away the years of the life of the smoker. A research shows that a chain smoker possibly reduces ten years of his/her life because of smoking. Just think about it, do you really need to lose your life's 10 precious years after bad habit like smoking?

So, start caring for yourself and your near and dear ones and try and quit smoking.