Giving up smoking is a long process and on average it takes a smoker four or five attempts to quit smoking for good. Typically you go through several phases during this time, each of which plays a decisive role in the long-term success of the quit.Each phase brings different issues, so the help and advice you receive will need to change, depending on which stage you’re at. One day, you will start looking upon yourself as a non-smoker who couldn’t imagine starting again, rather than an ex-smoker.

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Pregnancy is about creating a new life, but ultimately it is the mother’s decision whether or not to continue smoking. Your pregnancy can be a powerful motivation to give up smoking, because you’re making this choice on behalf of your unborn child who is completely dependent on you.

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Almost everyone knows that smoking causes cancer, emphysema, and heart disease; that it can shorten your life by 14 years or more; and that the habit can cost a smoker thousands of dollars a year. So how come people are still lighting up? The answer, in a word, is addiction.

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Cancer

• The risk of dying from lung cancer is more than 22 times higher among men who smoke cigarettes and about 12 times higher among women who smoke cigarettes compared with never smokers.

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