Quit smoking
How to Help Someone to Quit Smoking Without Hating You
Do you bite your tongue every time a beloved family member or friend lights up or steps outside for a smoke? Or maybe you’ve tried the opposite tack: nagging. Neither approach works, experts say. What has helped thousands of smokers to quit, they point out, are the following simple strategies.
Keep the focus on you — [...]
Robbie Williams quit because the drug made him fat
The singer said he suffered “the munchies” after smoking marijuana and went on mammoth binge-eating sessions.
The comments have angered anti-drug campaigners.
Williams, 36, who has fought a battle against drink, drugs and depression, said cannabis was a “lovely drug” but it did not “mix well with me”.
Speaking to the UK’s Radio Times, the troubled star said: [...]
Teens and smokeless tobacco
PARAGOULD, – Call it dip, chew, snuff, spit tobacco …any one of several marketing terms… It’s still not particularly good for you.
Rick Bender starting using smokeless tobacco at age 12.
The resulting effects of cancer and the treatments literally have left him with half a face.
Bender was at Piggott High school today speaking to students about [...]
Are You Ready to Say Goodbye to Smoking?
Kansas is kicking the habit by becoming the latest state to outlaw smoking in bars, restaurants and workplaces. Because of anti-smoking legislations, bars, restaurants and workplaces in Kansas remained without smoking sections.
The Kansas Government called the new legislation a triumph for workers, families, businesses and future generations. Once it will be signed, the ban will [...]
Robbie Williams quits smoking
British pop star Robbie Williams is giving up smoking after his fiancee Ayda Field told him it would boost their chances of starting a family.
The Angels singer has already cut his habit from 60 cigarettes to ten a day as he is keen to get healthier in order to start a family with actress Ayda, [...]
Smoking and cataract risk
In contrast to the SMC, earlier large HRT and cataract risk studies in the United States, Australia and Europe reported mixed results; importantly, some of these studies included women who were premenopausal and so possibly protected by endogenous estrogen. Results of the Swedish study may have been impacted by factors unique to this population: for [...]
Smoking: The President’s Problem, Too
Despite President Obama’s pledge to his wife and children to quit smoking, he apparently has yet to kick the habit.
Doctors reported that finding Sunday as part of Mr. Obama’s first checkup as commander in chief.
Yet anti-smoking advocates view the president’s cigarette struggles not so much as a setback, but rather as an opportunity to try [...]
FDA Tobacco Panel Includes Members With Quit-Smoking Ties
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday named at least two scientists with ties to pharmaceutical companies that market stop-smoking medicine to a scientific panel that will help it regulate the tobacco industry.
Jack Henningfield, a vice president of research and health policy with Pinney Associates, a consulting firm whose clients include GlaxoSmithKline PLC, will be [...]
Leave Cigarette Off For The Sake Of Excellent Sex
There is no secret that cigarette is an integral part of any smoker’s life. Wherever he won’t be, whatever he won’t do, cigarette is always with him. A particular pleasure it gives after making love. Every smoker will confirm this fact at a word.
Having interrogated a great number of smokers, we found out [...]
Smokeless tobacco products like snuff also cause cancer
A recent study published in the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology is urging tobacco manufacturers to reformulate a smokeless tobacco product called moist snuff. Researchers from Minnesota have found that the product contains high levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) which are highly toxic, cancer-causing substances.
Used in between the lip and gum, moist snuff has [...]
How quitters can be winners on smoking
Smokers are two to four times more likely to develop heart disease than nonsmokers.
That said, quitting can start to turn things around almost instantly. “It’s really quite striking how rapidly you get benefits,” says Russell Luepker, a cardiologist at the University of Minnesota and an expert on smoking cessation.
Within just two or three weeks, a [...]
Quit smoking for American Heart Month
SUMMIT COUNTY — According to Susan Westhof of the Summit Prevention Alliance, February is American Heart Month — a time to lose weight, eat better, exercise more and quit smoking.
Westhof said in an e-mail that more than 4,300 Coloradoans die every year from tobacco-related illnesses, and the average tobacco user spends about $1,500 a year [...]
DiCaprio struggling to give up smoking
Leonardo DiCaprio has revealed that he is struggling to quit smokiing.
The Shutter Island actor admitted that he has tried using nicotine patches, but they have caused him severe sleep problems.
“When I take nicotine patches I have blood curdling nightmares of murder. Mass murders,” Contactmusic quotes his as saying.
“I wake up in the middle of the [...]
Quitting Smoking Especially Difficult for Select Groups
With the national trend toward quitting smoking flat, psychologists are finding some success with treatments aimed at helping smokers from underserved groups, including racial and ethnic minorities and those with psychiatric disorders.
In a special section of this month’s issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association, researchers report [...]
