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If you are looking at buying a new home you may want to seriously consider quitting smoking. Those who smoke often find themselves with higher insurance premiums due to the obvious fire hazards that come with smoking in your home.

Another benefit, is that if you stop smoking you can install fire alarms in your house. This will help to reduce insurance premiums further as you are less likely to make a fire claim if you put these precautions in place.

Just think, if you quit smoking you will not only be saving money on all those cigarettes you would normally be buying, but you will also be saving on your home insurance as well. It’s no question that not smoking really benefits your pocket as well as your health.

We are all free to do what we want in our own home but that smell that permeates the entire fabric of your house can put off potential buyers if you are looking to sell.

Smoking is becoming less and less popular and people are no longer prepared to put up with people smoking around them, much less move into a house where it will take a very long time to move the smell of cigarette smoke.

Like most smokers there will often be ash stains in the house as well, and buying a house is a very big decision, so buyers often want things to be just right. So…along with the many other health benefits of giving up smoking, quitting is a real consideration you will want to make if you are looking to sell your home.

The NHS Stop Smoking Services have been in place for ten years this September and in those ten years it is estimated that approximately 70,000 lives have been saved as a direct result of it.

Anyone who has ever been addicted to cigarettes knows how hard it is to stop, and the UK led the way in helping smokers by being one of the first countries to offer free stop smoking support.

Over the years the NHS has adapted its approach to help all sorts of different people to stop their smoking habits. They now offer lots of different approaches, recognising that different people respond better to certain techniques than others.

Overall, since the NHS Support has been in place the percentage of smokers in the UK has dropped from 28% to just below 21%. This is a great achievement and is also due to the result of government policies of not allowing smoking in public places. However nothing can be taken away from the support that the NHS has offered those thousands of people who have now successfully stopped smoking.

Let’s hope that eventually with NHS support the number of people smoking can be reduced to an even smaller percentage of the population.

We all know that smoking can cause illnesses but now a UK study has found that smoking, put together with high blood pressure and high cholesterol can cause death up to ten years earlier than those who live otherwise healthy lives.

The study, conducted in 1967 to 1970 looked at a collection of middle-aged males. From this collection 42% were smokers, 51% had high cholesterol and 39% had high blood pressure. When the study was followed up in 2005 it was found that already 13,501 had died.

The study concluded that men which had all three risk factors, Smoking, high blood pressure and high cholesterol could expect to live until 74 where other males which are healthy and do not have any of these risks could expect to live up to ten years longer than this.

Ten years is a very long time so if there was ever a reason to give up, surely this would be a very good one!

We followed a lot of our European counterparts by banning smoking in public places, and the health benefits of this are obvious helping to prevent the issues associated with second hand smoke. But should we now take this further and follow our European counterparts example again by banning the display of tobacco in all our local shops and supermarkets.

Results from both Iceland and Canada suggest that this could have real benefits. Since introducing the ban, both countries have seen a drop in youth smoking rates.

Studies at the university of Stirling and research performed at the Centre for Behavioural Research also confirm this.

Obviously the results of any such ban in this country would take time to have any real effect, but if we are serious as a country about reducing the amount of young smokers and trying to combat the cancerous effects of smoking then this is surely the way to go. What do you think?