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.
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.
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.
Self-Help Tips to Stop Smoking
Breaking free from addictions is always a tough task and no matter how much extraneous help you may take, self-help is the best help especially when it comes to stop smoking.
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.
The 5 Keys to Quit Smoking
Studies have shown that you have the best chances to quit smoking for good if you use these five steps together.
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?
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).
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.
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.
New WHO Report Suggests that Smoking-Related Diseases Can Co
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently published a new report on tobacco-related mortality. The report shows that, despite some positive changes in fighting smoking and tobacco-related illnesses worldwide
Smoking and Female Health - More Bad News
According to a recent study carried out by European researchers, female smoking is implicated with even more health hazards than was previously suspected. Norwegian scientists have revealed that smoking women have a higher incidence and earlier onset of heart disease in comparison with male smokers
Smoking Involved in Development of Osteoporosis
Numerous adverse health conditions can be triggered by cigarette smoking. According to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the use of tobacco costs Americans almost $80 billion annually.
Quitting Smoking May Be Easy With the Help of Your Family Doctor
Researchers working at the Canada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health have recently conducted a study to determine the most efficient methods of kicking tobacco addiction. Surprisingly, their findings show that consulting your health care practitioner can play a key role in overcoming cigarette dependency!
Smoking Cessation Lowers Health Risks for Women – New Study
By stopping smoking, women benefit from a decreased risk of cardiovascular disease and a lesser incidence of death from various smoking-related cancers. According to new results of the large-scale Nurses’ Health Study, female smoking cessation brings major health risks down by more than 20 percent!
FAQ on Smoking and Health (Part I)
1. Can smoking be safe?No. Smoking any type of tobacco products, at any rate, damages the human body. Smoking even a few cigarettes a day, or several cigars a week, is dangerous for your health. Tobacco is particularly harmful for the lungs, heart, skin, reproductive organs, and teeth.
2007
Tobacco and Oral Health
Although most of us are aware of the facts that smoking causes cancer and lung disease, heart attacks, and strokes, the impact of tobacco on oral health is generally less known. Yet, the use of tobacco in the forms of smoking and chewing is the primary cause of oral health decay.
Smoking and Heart
In 1964, the Surgeon General presented a Report on Smoking and Health, which featured clear scientific evidence on harmful effects of cigarettes upon our health. Today, more than forty years later, researchers have published piles of proven materials on health hazards of smoking and have shown that thisbad habit is even more dangerous that was previously believed.
Smoking and Women’s Health - 10 Hazards to Consider
If you are a smoking woman, you might have already had a history of infertility and, most probably, suffer from numerous unpleasant complications of smoking that severely affect women’s health. Before you reach for one more cigarette, please, consider the following scientifically proven facts:
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