Why Should I Quit Smoking

Why Should I Quit Smoking

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Old tobacco smoke does more than simply make a room smell stale -- it can leave cancer-causing toxins behind, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. They found cancer-causing agents called tobacco-specific nitrosamines stick to a variety of surfaces, where they can get into dust or be picked up on the fingers. Children and infants are the most likely to pick them up, the team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California reported. "These findings raise concerns about exposures to the tobacco smoke residue that has been recently dubbed 'third-hand smoke'," the researchers wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ... Read Full Story
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‘A cigarette is a pipe with a fire at one end and a fool at the other’ said Dr. Johnson in his sarcastic comment on cigarettes and smoking. Smoking is in fact a pernicious craving for tobacco products, especially cigarettes and cigars. An organic compound, nicotine, which is richly found in tobacco smoke, is very detrimental to your health. It is linked with various health risks. It can cause diseases of the cardiovascular system, myocardial infarction (heart attack), stroke, diseases of the respiratory tract such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) chronic bronchitis and emphysema, cancer (particularly lung cancer and cancers of the larynx ... Read Full Story
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If you’re a sentient human being, then you most likely already know why you must quit smoking. You know that it shortens life-spans, causes agony, stops you from exercising or tasting food correctly, and lowers your quality of life. None of this is reports. In fact, you almost certainly knew all this before you even began smoking. Obviously, it has not helped you give up so far, so I’m not going to be in a position to convince you by rehashing all the same old info. And if you’re desperate to quit smoking, there’s a good chance that you have been searching for the ... Read Full Story
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If you are looking for reasons to stop smoking then the potential to develop a number of different and deadly cancers seems to be a good place to start. One type of cancer that smokers are at risk for is cancer of the larynx. This type of cancer is known to be more common among men who are cigarette smokers. As a matter of fact eighty percent of those who develop this cancer are male smokers who are over sixty years old. The early symptoms include a hoarse voice, trouble swallowing and maybe some ear pain. Smoking cigarettes seems to alter the lining of ... Read Full Story
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Giving up smoking is hard for any smoker. The unpleasant symptoms of smoking cessation such as anxiety, headaches and mood swings tend to oblige the person back into the habit. Certain products in the market claim to offer comparatively easy ways to quit smoking while reducing the effects of smoking cessation. One of those solutions is stop smoking habitro gum. Smokers get addicted to cigarettes due to highly habit-forming substance included in cigarettes, called nicotine. Once a smoker gives up smoking, the daily dose of nicotine is stopped from his/her body. As a result, nicotine cravings act up and this generally induces the person ... Read Full Story
Smokers may be more successful in quitting cold turkey then by using a medically based therapy for smoking cessation. An essay published by the Public Library Science states the nicotine replacement therapy is over – promoted because most ex – smokers quit unassisted.  
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Smoking is a bad habit and a serious health risk. It's dangerous even if you're not a smoker: 3,000 nonsmokers die in the US every year due to complications arising from secondhand smoke. Things aren't looking better for us nonsmokers either. A new study suggests that this number has the potential to rise because of risks associated with "thirdhand smoke." Thirdhand smoke is the residue left behind after a cigarette is put out. It's invisible...  
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Researchers reviewing hundreds of recent studies found that most ex-smokers ceased smoking successfully without help and found it less difficult than expected: they urge health authorities to do more to highlight this message and so that smoker's perceptions are not dominated by messages put out by tobacco control advocates and pharmaceutical companies who are overpromoting the idea that smokers need support like nicotine replacement...  
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Despite the over-promotion of nicotine replacement therapies by drug companies and anti-tobacco activists, the most successful method used by ex-smokers is unassisted cessation, according to a new policy forum in PLoS Medicine. In the article, researchers from the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, Australia take a critical look at most tobacco control campaigns, which emphasize that serious attempts at quitting smoking must...  
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A parent's existing health habits or behaviors, like cigarette smoking, may influence the likelihood that they will have their daughters vaccinated against HPV. According to survey results on correlates of HPV vaccine use, whether parents would choose to vaccinate their daughters was not associated with one's background or medical history, but was more closely associated with certain behavioral factors of the parents. Results of this survey...  
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New research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine may help more smokers keep their New Year's resolution by helping them quit smoking. Extended use of a nicotine patch 24 weeks versus the standard eight weeks recommended by manufacturers boosts the number of smokers who maintain their cigarette abstinence and helps more of those who backslide into the habit while wearing the patch, according to a study which will be published...  
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Radon exposure is the number two cause of lung cancer in the U.S., second only to cigarette smoking. It is the number one cause of lung cancer among non-smokers.   It’s estimated between 15,000 to 22,000 people die each year from radon-related lung cancer.[1] A majority of those deaths occur among people who also smoke cigarettes. Of the 11,000 lung cancer deaths among non-smokers, an estimated 20 to 25 percent are radon-related. [2]   Radon...  
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“It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done.” “It’s harder than quitting drugs.” “I’ve tried and tried and I just can’t stop.” “I feel like a loser because I can’t quit.” As a smoker, have you ever said anything like that? As someone who loves a smoker, have you ever heard someone say anything like that? Quitting smoking is one of the most difficult things many people ever do. Sure, we all hear of people who quit cold turkey on Monday and by...  
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Sick of spending your hard-earned money on pathetic quit-smoking methods that just string you along and prepare you to fail? If you ask Hollywood trendsetters, they’ll agree. Nicotine patches and gums are out. Hypnosis to stop smoking is the next big thing. I quit smoking with hypnosis, and it was cheap, easy, and a million times more effective than those nicotine replacement products. But you don’t have to take my word for it—listen to people...  
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Three competing anti-nicotine vaccines have advanced to human clinical trials -- including one being offered on an experimental basis to Portland-area smokers. While all remain unproven, some researchers believe vaccines will bring significant advantages over smoking cessation drugs.  
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