If you are still puffing, for your own health, now is probably a good time to quit cigarettes. You most probably have thought that way yourself and have wondered how to go about it, or you just keep postponing the decision for one reason or another. Take heart, many have successfully kicked the habit and [...]
Whichever way we look at it, smoking is self- destructive behaviour that affects many areas of the smoker’s life and well-being. The major area that suffers of course is his health primarily because of the tobacco addiction.
Simply put, there cannot be said that any smoking effects that are good, not for the smoker, their children, pets or even the environment.
Smoking is bad for you. It is a cause of fatal
disease and premature death and yet, it is preventable. Moreover for
every smoker, several other people are prone to smoke-related diseases
through second hand smoking. Give smoking up today and save lives,
beginning with your own.
Most smokers today at one time or other have had that deep desire to kick the habit. Admittedly there is no easy way to do so because of the nature of this addiction. What however might be found helpful is to have a stop smoking plan.
Here are some suggested steps :
1. Make determined commitment to [...]
Teen smoking is very serious and the trend in statistics and the increased teenage smoking and tobacco use is alarming. Yet, this trend is reversible, and the benefits of quitting smoking for teenagers are immense.
Did you know that your health does not get any better if you keep smoking? That your health actually does get better by stopping? Did you know that smoking is out of style? Stop smoking now!
If you have decided to stop smoking, congratulations! You have made a good decision. One of the things you will find useful and available is to get quit smoking support. It definitely increases your chances of stopping.
Kicking the smoking habit is not at all easy,in fact it is said to be easier to kick the cocaine or heroin habit. So help quit smoking is something the smoker wishing to stop may need in his efforts to quit. This is because nicotine, the active drug found in tobacco is highly addictive and [...]
Do you know that after you quit smoking everything about your health, the health of those around you, the health of your child and your pet begin to improve immediately ? And did you know that there is not one known benefit derived from continuing to smoke?
by Clarissa Carter
It is now a fact that teenage smoking and tobacco use is a regular habit among the 13-18 year age group. Smoking statistics show in America that, 25% of 12th graders and 28% of high school kids are smoking daily.
Some Smoking And Tobacco Facts.
Congratulations on your decision to develop a new habit…not smoking! Having made this important step, it is necessary to enlist all that is available to help quit smoking. One key to successfully being a non-smoker is to follow through with your decision to stay stopped and this calls for you to getting over the urges [...]
There is so much good reason as to why quit smoking is very important to ones health and it can all be summed up as it makes good sense. Health sense for you as the smoker, for others around you and for the environment, and it even makes dollar sense in terms of money and [...]
This may come as a surprise but top of the list of free stop smoking aids is…don’t start! And if you were about to light up your next cigarette, don’t.
Many remedies are available and have been resorted to in various efforts to quit cigarettes. Some are hormonal, medical, hypnotic and so on. The truth is [...]
Yes it is true that to give up smoking can be very difficult, maybe even more difficult than giving up cocaine, but it can be done and it has been done. If you are making that decision to quit, you will find immense benefits from recovering health, well-being and psychological freedom that you will not [...]
Teenage statistics show that there is a figure of over 4,000 smoking teenagers between ages 12 and 17 who start the tobacco addiction daily in the USA. Most of these kids start this habit as a way of copying what the adults are doing. While others are curious from the many ways the media portrays [...]
Cravings are marked by the desperate urge to smoke. Anxiety mounts, wanting the satisfaction of another puff. Even though cravings can be severe they keep lessening in intensity the longer you stay away from the nicotine. They are uncomfortable but they will pass in 3-5 minutes. So just take steps to get beyond these short [...]
The first few days after quitting smoking are the most difficult and the hardest to get through. Cravings are what most smokers have a problem with when quitting cigarettes. There are also other withdrawal symptoms and side effects after you stop cigarettes.
It is estimated that there are nearly two million smoking deaths a year in the developed world today, of course with variations from country to country. Of these, about one million are deaths between ages 35-70 years, literally death before old age. Cigarettes smoking inevitably translates to a lower life-expectancy. At this rate, World [...]
There was once a time when smoking was considered cool. After the tobacco industry admitted that smoking caused cancer, the world began a journey to stop smoking. The smoker was instantly offended by the campaigns set in place to inform them and passive smokers about the smoking health risks involved.
Second hand smoking is a cause of heart disease and lung disease and death. It is a fact that exposure to tobacco smoke increases the chances of dying from smoking related disease by 20 – 30% in non- smokers. This passive smoking also affects the health of children and infants and is a cause of [...]
When it comes to smoking diseases, the medical community most often focuses on lung cancer. While smoking lung cancer is a major disease related to this harmful habit, it is not the only disease that can be contracted and is often not the disease that affects the majority of smokers on a regular basis. Bronchitis, [...]
One of the effects of smoking that people never think about is on beauty. Years ago there was a commercial that would run over and over again about the “Dragon Lady”. This lady would walk around a restaurant and smoke a cigarette while dancing to music. She put out her cigarette in a person’s slice [...]
