December 2009
Girls Start Smoking While Dieting
The motives to start smoking are different for various groups of people. Some feel stress and need to cope with it as they used to do in childhood: by sticking something in their mouths, but instead of a pacifier, adults prefer cigarettes.
November 2009
Self-Help To Stop Smoking - A Determination
Smoking as a habit for many years becomes uncontrollable and makes people addicted. Even before realizing, people graduate to packs of cigarettes everyday and are unable to imagine living without inhaling tobacco.
Smoking during Pregnancy
If there exist more or less suitable times to quit smoking, there is probably no better time to do so than when people plan to have a baby. A healthy baby is guaranteed to be born to a healthy mother, but it is rare for those who have some kind of bad habits.
September 2009
Smoking for Stress Relief
All people experience stress from time to time and they cope with it differently. For many of them cigarettes are great helpers which are claimed to calm down the nerves and to relax.
Quit Smoking with a Smile
Doctor Cliff Kuhn offers unusual way to stop smoking. He has dealt with smokers for many years and believes that 7 out of 10 smokers want to quit, but cannot give up the habit completely because of the strong addiction to nicotine.
August 2009
The Negative Effects Of Tobacco On Women
Since the 60s, smoking women has continued to grow: the proportion of smokers rose from 10 to 22% in 40 years on the 15 million smokers in USA. The women smoke more and more and earlier.
July 2009
Why It s So Hard to Quit Smoking
Did you know that 70% of smokers in the United States today say that they wish they could quit? Why, then, is the tobacco industry making millions of dollars on American smokers?
June 2009
Healthy Food Helps to Quit Smoking
Sometimes smokers notice that certain food influences on the taste of cigarettes: some products improve the taste of cigarettes, the others make a smoker want to give up because of bad aftertaste with the smoke.
May 2009
The Harmful Effect of Smokeless Tobacco
While it is known that smoking damages peoples health, many believe that smokeless or chewing tobacco is not as bad. One does not have to smoke it, inhale bad particles or swallow the chemicals; however, it still affects the body in the same way as cigarettes.
April 2009
Alternative Ways to Help Quit Smoking
While traditional methods of quitting smoking are popular and available almost everywhere, there are some exotic ways of quitting that might interest smokers. There has not been scientific proof or research proving these methods are effective, but people tend to trust them.
March 2009
I'll Tell You Why People Smoke and How to Quit Smoking
Stopping smoking was probably one of the hardest things I have ever achieved in my life. That said it is also one thing in my life I can look on and think I m so glad I m a non-smoker . Smoking is fast becoming one of the most unsociable things a person can do.
Nicotine Replacement Therapy (P1): Nicotine Patches and Gums
Smoking causes two types of addiction: mental and physical. In order to concentrate attention on mental aspect, smokers are offered nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) which gives a little dose of nicotine to the body helping to fight withdrawal symptoms.
Nicotine Replacement Therapy
A smoker who is quitting usually faces two aspects of dependency: psychological (emotional) and physical. The first one draws a person back to smoking by influencing their brain: ex-smoker might still have smoking friends with whom he or she used to spend time and go on smoke breaks with at work.
Benefits of Quitting Smoking
It is amazing and unbelievable how the human body responds to the decision of quitting smoking. Nicotine has been poisoning it for weeks, months or even years and after the person decides to turn away from cigarettes, his/her body starts its own healing.
December 2008
Heart Disease, Lung Cancer and COPD - The 3 Causes of Death
Smoking, whether it is cigarettes, cigars or a pipe, is strongly linked to developing health conditions such as heart disease and lung cancer. Besides these serious diseases, smoking may also be the cause of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).
Quitting Smoking and Weight Gain - Discover the Truth
What s one of the top concerns of people who want to quit smoking? Weight gain. Survey after survey of people who are smoking shows that one of the top reasons for not trying to quit is the fear of gaining weight. Now, at first glance, this sounds plausible
Female Smokers Find It Harder to Kick Their Habit
Statistics show that smoking women have a harder time in quitting their unhealthy habit than men do. According to a researcher of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, women’s addiction to both nicotine and their “smoking image” can be stronger and more overwhelming than that of men.
November 2008
Environmental Tobacco Smoke Raises Risk of Cardiovascular Di
We all know that smoking is bad for the heart. But what about inhaling second-hand smoke by non-smokers, especially children? A new study examining the effects of second-hand tobacco smoke on the health of toddlers and teens has revealed that the chronic exposure elevates the children’s risk of developing heart disease later in life.
October 2008
It Is Never Too Late to Stop Smoking!
Many smokers try to get off their unhealthy habit when still young, but older people can successfully kick even a lifelong tobacco addiction, too. A study conducted by the UK Peninsula Medical School has revealed that people who approach the age of retirement can be the most successful group of smokers in their attempt to completely quit puffing ci
13 Great Reasons To Stop Smoking
Have you been looking for a treatment to stop smoking? It is never too late to give up smoking and the good news is that nicotine only remains in your body for a short period of time, about 2 days. Just in case you needed another push, here are 13 good reasons to break the habit.
Facts about smoking
Whether we like it or not, smoking is is here to stay and will always be part of our culture. It has been for centuries. Trying to eradicate smoking would be impossible. It has been around for to long and some simply enjoy it.Anyone who is trying to stop smoking is better off taking some time to understand a few facts about it.
10 Ways To Quit Smoking
With so much time and effort put into creating campaigns to help Americans quit smoking the progression has not resulted quite well. Studies have found that 1 in 4 men and 1 in 5 women still smoke. Leading some to believe that helping Americans in ways to quit smoking are in need of a more aggressive approach.
More Research On the Dangers Of Light Smoking
A new study conducted by Tobacco Control researchers has revealed that even light smoking of just several cigarettes a day can be very dangerous for the heart and lung health. According to the scientists, if you puff daily from one to four lung rockets, and especially if you are a woman, you almost triple your chances of contracting lung cancer and
How Smoking Can Take Away Your Health And Life
Despite the dangers that smoking can bring, there are still millions of Americans who enjoy lighting up sticks upon sticks of cigarettes. In fact, figures show that about 25.9 percent of men in the United States are smokers, while about 18.1 percent of women light a cigarette regularly.
Stop Smoking Aids: Helping You Kick The Habit
When a friend of mine moved from a South - American country to Canada, he announced within a month, quot;Cigarettes are just too expensive here! I m quitting smoking quot;. I figured, quot;Like he s gonna last, he s used to a pack a day! quot; My mistake.
