smoking a few cigarettes a day “I can quit anytime I want.”, This is something doctors hear very often., Many people believe that smoking is harmless and not an addiction., But if years have passed Even one cigarette a day

Long-Term Advantages The long-term benefits of quitting smoking for GERD patients include more than symptom relief, they also involve reduced risk of complications such as Barretts esophagus and esophageal cancer

The longer you smoke, the higher your risk of life-threatening diseases

This information is also relevant to the alternative quality performance standard under which ACOs that fail to meet the quality performance standard to qualify for the maximum sharing rate, but that achieve a quality performance score equivalent to or higher than the 10th percentile of the performance benchmark on at least one of the four outcome measures in the APP Plus quality measure set, may be eligible to share in savings on a sliding scale, as discussed in the current 425.512(a)(4)(ii)

Even worse, secondhand smoke harms your loved ones silently but severely