No more smoking
Tobacco causes 8 million deaths every year.
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Tobacco causes 8 million deaths every year.
When evidence was released this year that smokers were more likely to develop severe disease with COVID-19
compared to non-smokers, it triggered millions of smokers to want to quit tobacco.
Quitting can be challenging, especially with the added social and economic stress that have come as a result of the pandemic,
but there are a lot of reasons to quit.
The benefits of quitting tobacco are almost immediate.
Source: PAHO
Nicotine is the main addictive drug in tobacco that makes quitting so hard.
Cigarettes are designed to rapidly deliver nicotine to your brain.
Inside your brain, nicotine triggers the release of chemicals that make you feel good.
As nicotine stimulates parts of your brain over and over, your brain gets used to having nicotine around.
Source: CDC
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Smokers often start smoking because friends or family do.
But they keep smoking because they get addicted to nicotine,
one of the chemicals in cigarettes and smokeless tobacco.
Source: Kids health
