Better Late Than Never - Strategies To Help You Quit Smoking
If you remember, in my blog post regarding things that may affect your Life Insurance policy , you learned that smoking is probably THE biggest "red flag" to an Insurance Carrier. To understand why a carrier would be leery of smokers, you have to consider that cigarette smokers are a liability for them. If you smoke, chances are you may become ill and pass away at a younger age than a non-smoker. That increases the possibility that the carrier would have to pay out a death benefit sooner rather than later. Smoking can cause a range of different Cancers including: *Head and neck *Esophageal and Lung *Leukemia *Stomach *Kidney *Pancreas Other health problems created by smoking include: *Stroke *Blindness *Gum infection *Aortic Rupture *Heart Disease *Pneumonia *Hardening of the arteries *Asthma and chronic lung disease Were you as surprised as I was by the number of illnesses cigarettes can contribute to? I'm glad I quit around 23 years ago! When I was a teenager, my mo