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6 Facts You Should Know About Cigar Smoking 2008-02-22 08:13:00 It’s a common misconception that cigar smoking is less dangerous than cigarette smoking. The truth of the matter is that cigars are dangerous and every bit as deadly as cigarettes. However, because upwards of 75 percent of cigar smokers are occasional smokers, they are generally exposed to smaller quantities of the poisons and carcinogens present in cigars than cigarette smokers are with their cigarettes. It’s because of this that there are fewer instances of disease and fatality due to cigar smoking.1. One cigar may contain as much tobacco as an entire pack of cigarettes.A single cigarette usually contains less than a gram of tobacco, while cigars, which vary in size and shape, can have between 5 and 17 grams of tobacco.2. Cigars are Addictive.The amount of nicotine in a single cigar Read more:Smoking
Chantix Label Updated 2008-02-19 08:47:00 CHANTIX, a selective nicotinic acetylcholine receptor partial agonist, is the first non-nicotine prescription treatment for smoking cessation in almost a decade. It has been prescribed to more than 4 million patients in the United States since approval. It helps people give up smoking in two ways: it gives the same feeling of satisfaction as nicotine and it blocks the effect of nicotine on the brain. The first effect lessens the symptoms of withdrawal, while the second stops nicotine from triggering the brain's reward center.Based upon post-marketing reports first reflected in a November 2007 labeling update, Pfizer today (On January 18, 2008) updated the CHANTIX label in the U.S. to include a warning that patients who are attempting to quit smoking with CHANTIX should be observed for seri Read more:Label
Nicotine Addiction Steals Smoker's Right to Choose 2008-02-17 03:26:00 48-year-old Skip Legault has suffered a long list of horrendous physcial ailments due to tobacco use: two heart attacks; a stroke; 7 blood clots; 14 surgeries; a leg amputation. And he's still smoking.Anyone who has lived with nicotine addiction knows that it is insidious and extremely powerful. It's hard to quit smoking, and the sad fact is, many thousands of people don't find their way free of this killer habit in time. Mr. Legault openly admits the power that nicotine addiction still has over him, even after all he's been through because of it. He's put himself out there in the public eye, knowing that people may ridicule him because he hasn't been able to quit smoking. But he did it anyway, because he knew that his struggle with this addiction would send a powerful message that could h Read more:Right
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Quitting Smoking is a Process 2008-02-10 04:46:00 There are a many quit smoking methods to try. If you are not happy with specific one, try another. It is vital for your health (and the health of those around you), so you quit smoking as soon as possible. Cold turkey is the number one way that people try to quit smoking. However, this is usually not successful. Basically, cold turkey means that you stop smoking cigarettes one day and never have another one. While some people believe that they have the willpower to do it, quitting smoking really has little to do with willpower and more to do with that fact that your body is addicted to nicotine and smoker can have withdrawal symptoms. Cold turkey does work for some people, but most people start smoking again within a few days.Unfortunately, part of the addiction is the habit of smoking its Read more:Process
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20 Dreadful Smoking Facts 2008-02-09 07:29:00 1. There are 1.1 billion smokers in the world today, and if current trends continue, that number is expected to increase to 1.6 billion by the year 2025.2. China is home to 300 million smokers who consume approximately 1.7 trillion cigarettes a year, or 3 million cigarettes a minute.3. Worldwide, approximately 10 million cigarettes are purchased a minute, 15 billion are sold each day, and upwards of 5 trillion are produced and used on an annual basis.4. Five trillion cigarette filters weigh approximately 2 billion pounds.5. It is estimated that trillions of filters, filled with toxic chemicals from tobacco smoke, make their way into our environment as discarded waste yearly.6. While they may look like white cotton, cigarette filters are made of very thin fibers of a plastic called cellulos Read more:Smoking
Cravings to Smoke – Fight or Relax? 2008-01-25 03:21:00 When you quit, driving, eating, drinking coffee or alcohol, or simply relaxing will trigger the urge, but most cravings to smoke last only three to five minutes. Then power of craving tends to decrease gradually until craving is gone. There are two ways to cope with cravings.1. Fight cravings as they come, one by one. The most effective way to do that is to interrupt your thought pattern immediately. Change your activity, do something different for a few minutes, and the craving will lose its power and be gone.2. Try a little reverse psychology - instead of fighting with the urge to smoke, relax and let the craving wash over you, and accept it as a sign of healing, which is just what it is. The urge will run its course and pass. Have some faith, and trust in the process of quitting smoking Read more:Cravings
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Another Reason Not to Smoke, Especially for Women 2008-01-20 22:53:00 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is increasingly becoming a problem for women, according to the January issue of Mayo Clinic Women
's HealthSource. The most important risk factor for COPD is long term cigarette smoking.Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a broad term that describes any of a group of illnesses that block airflow through the lungs. The most common are emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Signs and symptoms of COPD -- persistent cough, increased mucus production, shortness of breath and frequent colds and respiratory problems -- often develop gradually, and people don't realize they have the disease until it's advanced.Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. The COPD death rate for women rose much faster be Read more:Reason
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Teenagers Exposed to Nicotine will Fail at School 2008-01-09 08:58:00 Nicotine may cause the teenage brain to develop abnormally, resulting in changes to the structure of white matter - the neural tissue through which signals are relayed. Teenagers
who smoke, or whose mothers smoked during pregnancy, are also more likely to suffer from auditory attention deficits, meaning they find it harder to concentrate on what is being said when other things are happening at the same time, according to an article published in The New Scientist.Leslie Jacobsen of Yale University School
of Medicine and team studied 33 teenagers - all their mothers had smoked during pregnancy. Twenty-five of the teens whose mothers had smoked during pregnancy were daily smokers themselves. They also studied another 34 teenagers whose mothers had not smoked during pregnancy - 14 of these tee
Quitting Smoking Fear 2008-01-08 10:50:00 Most people know that they could add years to their life, improve their health, and save several thousands a year, just by quitting smoking. Most people know that by quitting smoking they will get all of these points simultaneously. But, smokers continue to smoke.There isn't a smoker alive who has not felt gut-wrenching fear when thinking about stubbing out that last cigarette... the one that signals the beginning of smoking cessation process. Smokers are anxious to feel misery without cigarettes; to experience fear that they won’t be able to enjoy life or handle stress; that life will be boring.If you are smoker, probably you fear that you’ll have to give up your crutch or pleasure; fear that you will put on weight; fear that you’ll have to go through an awful trauma to get free; fe Read more:Quitting
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Exercise is Better Way to Boost your Metabolism than Smoking 2007-12-28 01:17:00 Cigarette smoking forces the heart to beat faster. The smoker's heart may beat up to 20 times more per minute, when a cigarette is inhaled. Smokers should know that the most common cause of smoking-related death is extra stress on the heart by smoking. A smoking habit of 20 cigarettes a day puts the same amount of stress on the heart as 90 pounds of extra weight would.When smoker stops smoking, heart rate slows down somewhat, causing metabolism to drop slightly. Even with retarded metabolism, which is the signal to a slight weight gain, smoker can take steps to build metabolic rate back up in ways that benefit health rather than destroy it, as smoking does. If weight gain due to quitting smoking is something you fear or is a reality you are struggling with, use exercise to boost metabolism Read more:Boost
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Smoke Less to Quit Smoking Easy 2007-12-21 21:54:00 In the study, funded by the US National Cancer Institute, 20 healthy adult smokers smoked their usual brand for a week and then followed six weeks of smoking cigarettes with progressively decreased nicotine content. One fourth of the smokers quit smoking completely while the study was in progress. The rest return to their usual commercial cigarette brand, at the end of this period. However, when tested one month later, they were smoking about 40 per cent fewer cigarettes a day, with a comparable reduction in nicotine intake. So, this new research on reduced-nicotine content cigarettes strongly counters the idea that reducing the nicotine content of cigarettes would lead to smoking more cigarettes.Therefore, tobacco products with the reduction of the nicotine yields make cigarettes less har Read more:Smoke
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Mind Sync Quit Smoking Audio Technology 2007-12-19 06:28:00 Rythmic sounds can change the way that we feel. Buddhist monks use drums and chimes to help them maintain deep meditative states. Our brains appear to have four distinct bands of activity: - Beta - Altertness / focus / clear thinking (13-40 HZ)- Alpha - Relaxation / visualization / creativity (7-12 HZ)- Theta - Meditation / intuition / memory (4-7 HZ)- Delta - Detached awareness / healing / sleep (0-4 HZ)Each state can be generated by listening to specially designed computer generated audio. 4.5 beats/second tends for example to generate theta brain waves. Our minds appear to automatically synchronise with the audio signal remarkably easily. The direct suggestions within the hypnotherapy audio greatly increase the relaxation effect of the underlying Mind Sync audio. There has been consider Read more:Audio
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Save your Legs, Lungs and Entire Life 2007-12-10 03:30:00 Smoking is deadly addiction. Cigarette smoking is a proven reason of extremely unpleasant health conditions and the most well known are heart attack, lung cancer, and emphysema. But smokers should know that heavy smoking causes reduced blood supply to the leg muscles and as a result leg pains and increased risk of clots in legs. Clots are able to travel to the lung and create blockages - or pulmonary embolisms - that stop the supply of oxygen to the heart.Smoking is a major risk factor for peripheral vascular disease. This disease is a narrowing of blood vessels that carry blood to the leg and arm muscles. This can lead to such severe narrowing that the limb becomes starved of blood and is damaged severely, sometimes requiring amputation. So, if you are smoker, set your quit day, ask for y Read more:Lungs
Easy to Understand, But Hard to Use 2007-12-08 22:50:00 In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.Do you want to know a little secret that will help you to quit? Of course, you do. However, you already know it. To quit smoking successfully you should want to quit smoking more than to keep smoking. If you think that you sincerely want to quit, but are not able to, you are mistaken, truly!If you try to list your reasons to quit smoking, it will be obvious health reasons probably. Of course, you, like most people don't want to get lung cancer, a heart attack or a stroke, and like the idea to live long enough to see your grandchildren grow up. These reasons are good reasons to quit smoking, certainly, but they will not help you quit smoking, just because they deal with probable variants of your future, Read more:Understand
The Best Ways to Stay Smoke-Free Throughout Holiday 2007-12-04 23:34:00 Smoking cessation challenge turn out to be even more complicated during the holiday season. It is a demanding time of year for most people, but there are many ways to reduce stress and relax. Use this information to stay smoke-free throughout holiday.Do you know that sex is a great stress-relieving practice? The various benefits of sex work very well on the way to reducing stress. Unfortunately, most people have less sex than they should have with their high stress levels.Cravings to smoke seem to be stronger when you are tired or did not have enough sleep last night. Get enough sleep at night, and take a power nap during the day to be able to manage cravings and reduce stress. Diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and protein complex carbohydrates is great fuel for your body. One of the main i Read more:Holiday
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What does Smoking Really Mean to You? 2007-11-30 21:28:00 All smokers have a mental wall between smoking habit and the severe reality of the damage from every cigarette smoked. Lie allows smokers to light up with some level of comfort. And because smoking is usually a slow killer, those lies support the structure of wall of denial for years and years. With the lapse of time, most smokers find that the wall begins to fall down, and bit by bit, smoking becomes a terrible, anxious activity. They find themselves feeling miserable, weak and desperate. At that instant, most smokers start seriously thinking about how they might find a way to quit smoking for good.A crucial step in the recovery process from nicotine addiction involves breaking through that wall of denial to put smoking in the correct light. Nicotine addiction is in smoker's thoughts and Read more:Smoking
Look At What Has Happened To Me And Tell Me Smoking Is Worth It 2007-11-28 23:19:00 Isaac keery, 62, who had a lung removed after being told he had just a year left to live is urging smokers to think twice about lighting up. Mr Keery, was diagnosed with cancer last April and told he could expect to live just 12 months if he didn't have his left lung taken out. Recalling the moments when he was given the heart wrenching news an emotional Isaac said: "It didn't dawn on me how serious things were until a Macmillan Nurse spoke to me at the hospital after my x-ray and scan results were in. I kept thinking, "am I really going to die?" Six months on after his diagnosis Isaac is asking smokers to give up the habit. He said, "I used to smoke 20-30 roll ups a day before I became ill, but when I was told about the cancer I was smoking up to 75 a day. My nerves were wrecked, I knew I Read more:Smoking
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Already Quitted? What's your next goal? 2007-11-19 23:36:00 Goals are dreams with deadlines.When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.Many ex-smokers forgot about their struggle with smoking, all quitting smoking drama, and finally forgot their pride of leaving this unmitigated evil behind not long after smoking cessation process. There is no doubt that it's not good to forget any experience, and it's not good to stop self-perfection process.Do you remember a man that gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food? He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. So, maybe, it is not good idea to implement new great life changes for ex-smoker, who quitted smoking three or less months ago, it is too early to make some other movements. Howeve
A Good Night's Sleep Rewards 2007-11-12 09:24:00 People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise!Those people, who smoke a pack a day have problems falling asleep and when they do, it not as deep. Also, the ones who go through withdrawal symptoms are going to have some problems with night's sleep. If you are having difficulties getting to sleep at night, try a few of these advices to ease your discomforts. Here is couple of things you should avoid to enhance your chances of getting a great sleep. - Try drinking less coffee, make your cups weaker. Caffeine can take about six hours to leave your system and, without nicotine, your body absorbs much more of this stimulant, which can make you restless, and irritable. Even one cup of coffee in the morning can aff Read more:Night
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Number-One Cancer Killer Not What You Think 2007-11-02 04:39:00 Two-thirds of women inaccurately believed breast cancer to be the leading cause of cancer death among women, but in fact lung cancer is the leading cancer killer in America. Lung Cancer
is the disease that claims more American lives than any other cancer. Smokers should know better and expect related health problems when they smoke and give enough attention to lung cancer treatment and prevention.Lung cancer accounts for twenty-eight percent of all cancer deaths in the United States, and more Americans lose their lives to lung cancer annually than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined. This news further underscores the need for continued research and awareness about prevention and treatment of this disease. Eighty-five percent of people diagnosed with lung cancer are current or forme Read more:Killer
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Make Your Own List of Reasons to Quit Smoking 2007-10-29 03:50:00 There are many reasons to quit – from saving money to improved health. Cigarettes are priced anywhere from $4 to over $6 per pack. So if you smoke one pack a day, and quit, that easily converts to a savings of over $2,000 a year. You have fresher breath, whiter teeth, and unstained fingers. You will be sick less often, heal faster, and within 24 hours after quitting chance of a heart attack will be reduced.But from these common quit smoking reasons you should move to more personals reasons that will motivate you further. If you are serious about quitting smoking, you should make your personal list of the reasons. Why do you want to quit smoking? Was it fear of a smoking-related disease? Or maybe it is hate to smoker's cough that is a signal of lung damage. Do you like the smell of your c Read more:Reasons
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Hypnotherapy For Smoking Cessation 2007-10-23 11:50:00 Some smokers may be more likely to quit smoking with hypnotherapy than using other smoking cessation methods. For these smokers one hypnotherapy session is more likely to help than nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) alone or quitting "cold turkey".When you say, "Quitting is so hard, I just can't imagine I will ever be able to stop", you are asking you body to crave a cigarette. Instead, you should close your eyes, relax, and imagine yourself in a future when you no longer a smoker. Make it as real as you can, adding in a visual experience as well as the sounds, the smells, the emotions, etc. Spend time in your fantasy future, take a trip on your future time line to a time when you have completely forgotten about smoking, and then let yourself look back on the time line and remember how eas Read more:Smoking
Do Not Even Try to Quit Smoking 2007-10-08 06:38:00 Are you trying to quit smoking, but fail every time? Well, most probably you fixated on the idea of quitting smoking. Maybe you are thinking about quitting smoking all the time. These thoughts slowly change to the idea to smoke another cigarette, and after some time, one more. You think that it is impossible to break down this order. This chain seems to be as firm as steel chain.It is impossible to quit smoking, really. If you think that it's just a question of willpower, you probably will fail in every attempt to quit smoking. If you think that you stand upon the idea to quit smoking, you most likely will not succeed. When you are talking about quitting smoking, it seems that you are talking about losing some part of your life. If you tell your friends that you are going to quit smoking, Read more:Smoking
How Old is your Lung Function? 2008-03-12 00:49:00 Lung age can be measured by comparing a smoker's lungs to the age of a healthy person whose lungs function were the same.A recent British study involved 561 long-term smokers over 35 who lived outside of London. Each volunteer underwent a spirometry test, a simple test to record the volume and rate at which the volunteers exhaled air from the lungs. Half the group received no detailed information about their results. The other people were given their lung age, shown a diagram of how smoking ages the lungs and told that quitting would slow the rate of damage. Everyone was strongly encouraged to quit and offered help to do so and both groups were told that their lung function would be measured again after 12 months to see if there had been any change. One year later, saliva tests showed that
The Global Tobacco Crisis 2008-03-23 11:42:00 The World Health Organization (WHO) recently published a startling report on the state of tobacco use around the world, along with some dire predictions about our future, should we continue on the path we're presently walking. Based on current trends in tobacco use worldwide, they tell us that we are poised on the brink of a global tobacco epidemic that could claim as many as one billion lives this century.Mirriam-Webster defines an epidemic as something that affects a disproportionately large number of people within a population, community, or region at the same time. Typhoid fever was an epidemic, and tobacco use will be too, unless we do something drastic to change these trends, and do it soon.Today, tobacco use is growing the fastest in low-income countries that are least equipped to d Read more:Crisis
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Dads Don't Quit Cigarettes During Moms' Pregnancies 2008-03-16 11:00:00 Despite public health campaigns, a surprising number of women continue to use substances such as tobacco, marijuana and alcohol during pregnancy and their usage rebounds to pre-pregnancy levels within two years of having a baby, according to a new University of Washington study. Men's patterns of substance use during their partners' pregnancies were even bleaker. Men typically are not targeted by these campaigns, and their levels of binge drinking, daily smoking and marijuana use remained fairly stable before, during and after pregnancy, the study showed. This is important, according to the study's lead authors Jennifer Bailey and Karl Hill, because men's substance use may make it harder for women to stop using while they're pregnant and may make it more likely that mothers will resume smo
Buy cigarettes online? Expect a large invoice. 2008-03-26 12:46:00 As many states raise the excise tax on cigarettes
, smokers in high-tax states are sometimes tempted to go online
and save money by ordering from an out-of-state discount store to avoid paying the tax.Many states (34 by 2006) have now passed laws governing these types of sales, and at least 5 have banned direct to consumer shipment of cigarettes. Because of the myriad of complex state and federal laws affecting this aspect of business, many of the (over 700) vendors selling cigarettes on the internet have been found to be in breach of at least one state law. This breach makes them open to prosecution, and one of the common requirements during such prosecutions is that they turn over records of all their orders and deliveries.When the state gets access to this information, it can be used to Read more:Expect
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Smoking Actually Increases Stress 2008-04-10 08:38:00 Does smoking help stress? Many people think that smoking cigarettes helps to calm them down. Smoking
releases chemicals in brain, called neurotransmitters; these improve your mood and make you feel better. However, these feelings usually only last for a short period because withdrawal from nicotine gradually makes you feel worse and your good mood is only restored when the craving is satisfied with another cigarette. So, if you smoke to reduce stress, you are only adding to your stress.Studies show that for adult smokers the positive mood changes experienced during smoking may only reflect the reversal of unpleasant abstinence effects. Regular smokers, therefore, experience periods of heightened stress between cigarettes, and smoking briefly restores their stress levels to normal. However, Read more:Actually
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