Smoking cigarettes is extremely detrimental to one¡¯s health.Long-term smokers have an increased chance of developing various healthcomplications, and choosing to quit smoking is the best decision one can make.This Kerala man is leading by example.
According to News18, the man - Veenugopal Nair - quit smoking almost 8 years ago, and now withall the money he saved up by not buying smokes, he now plans to build a newhouse.
The former construction sector employee managed to save Rs 5 lakh and plans to continue his savings in order to secure a future for his family - wife and two children.
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Nair said that the habit latched onto him at the age of 13 and with bidiscoming at dirt cheap price, he would smoke pack after pack.
On the day hestopped smoking, the market price for a pack of cigarettes was Rs 50. The chainsmoker could easily smoke away one-and-a-half to two packets in a day, reports News18.
Things got out of hand by the time he hit his 60s, chest pain is what forced him to quit andstart reconsidering his health.
With all that he has saved up in his bank account along withthe ¡®additional savings¡¯ he earned from trashing smoking, Nair now wants to adda second storey to his house.?
He has also set an example for other chain smokers, to quit the habit.
Choosing to quit smoking is the best decision anyone canmake. It will make one feel healthier and ?save a ridiculous amount of money. Amid theongoing pandemic, 72 per cent of India's combustible tobacco users between theages of 18-24 years old have attempted to quit smoking, followed by 69 per centof combustible tobacco users between the ages of 25-39, suggests a recentsurvey conducted by the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World.
Around 66 per cent of those surveyed (ages 18-69) expressedtheir desire to quit smoking amid COVID-19 for health reasons. In India,two-thirds of the 1,500 smokers surveyed, expressed their desire to quit smokingfor health reasons. While 66 per cent indicated that they had consideredquitting, 63 per cent had actually made a quit attempt, says the survey titled 'COVID -19 State of Smoking Poll'.
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