World Vision Day - why not quit for your eyes?

[notsmokinjo]

Everyone knows smoking harms your lungs, and your heart, and your arteries but did you know smoking can effect your vision? Not just when the smoke gets in there and it stings and they water up, no with over 4,000 chemicals in each little death stick smoking can do more than be an irritant it can lead to significant eye disease and blindness. Smokers are four times more likely to loose their vision in old age than non-smokers. So if your lurking and thinking now might be the time to quit here are some reasons why World Vision Day would be an awesome time to do it:

 

• People who smoke DOUBLE their chances of developing cataracts, and the risk increases the more you smoke... so every cigarette does damage to your eyes.

 

• Smokers are three times more likely to develop Macular Degeneration than those who have never smoked. One in four people with Age Related Macular Degeneartion are smokers.
  • However, just one year smoke free and your chances of developing Macular Degeneration have decreased bu 6.7% and will continue to improve the longer you are smoke free.

 

• Smokers have nearly DOUBLE the risk of developing diabetes and diabetic retinopathy.

 

• Smokers are nearly TWICE as likely to have dry eyes.

 

• Smoking more than doubles your chances of developing glucoma.

 

• Its not just the chemical laced smoke hanging around your eyes that cause the damage, Nicotine in your system effects the structure of the retina and the blood vessels that feed the eye. So if you are vaping, thinking its better, in the term of eye health it is not. Most of the eye damage caused from smoking is not from the smoke but the presence of nicotine in your system altering the structures of the eye.

 

BUT DON'T GIVE UP HOPE .... QUITTING  smoking will help. Studies show that quitting smoking reduce all the risks for developing vision loss. Your eyes will be healthier if you quit.

 

So why not celebrate World Vision Day and quit. 

Edited October 11, 2018 by notsmokinjo