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Quick Tips on How to Quit Smoking
1. Publicise your decision to quit smoking
Let your friends and family know your decision to quit smoking. Get practical support, delegating to a person close to you the difficult task of reminding you of your target and benefits in your health whenever you feel a strong desire for a cigarette. Also, very important, ask from [...]
Experts offer best advice: Quit smoking now!
Angie’s List asked our highly rated acupuncturists, hypnotists and health and fitness experts for great tips to quit smoking and ways to successfully stay quit.
1. Make a list of your motivations and keep it handy. If you’re quitting smoking because of your family, keep their picture in your pocket. If you’re afraid [...]
Recession fills quit-smoking classes in Ventura County
“Stop smoking” has long been on the hit parade of New Year’s resolutions, right up there with “exercise” and “eat healthy foods.” But the recession may have bumped it to the top of the list this year.
“People are out of work or their spouse is out of work or their hours are cut. People are [...]
Assistance available to quit smoking
THE VILLAGES — As the New Year approaches, some residents are creating their resolution lists, and “quit smoking” could be their top goal.
Local health department officials remind residents about smoking-cessation programs and tips that can help them carry through with this resolution.
Smokers need to have a plan for quitting smoking, said Kimberly Alfrey, tobacco prevention [...]
Exercise stops you wanting to smoke
Smokers who start exercising could find they lose the desire to light up.
Psychologists at the University of Exeter say even a moderate workout can reduce the smoker’s interest in cigarettes.
They asked 20 smokers to abstain from cigarettes for 15 hours.
Exercise can help reduce a smoker’s urge to light up, scientists have found
The subjects were then [...]
Grant will help simulation center to train health care providers
LYNCHBURG — Lynchburg College and Centra Health received a $200,000 grant from the Virginia Tobacco Commission for a health simulation lab that will provide medical training for local students and health care practitioners.
The Center for Simulation and Virtual Learning is slated to open early next year in a vacant space next to Centra’s Lynchburg Family [...]
Drug-free lifestyle helps bikers perform for students
WILLIS – It was no stunt when the United Freestyle Stunt Team pulled in to A.R. Turner Elementary Tuesday morning.
BMX bikers Spencer Bass, 18, and 37-year-old Adam Baker, owner of United Freestyle, showed the nearly 560 students what a drug-free lifestyle can help them achieve as the two flew in the air on top – [...]
Tobacco smoke exposure prevalent in urban public hospital patients
NEW YORK – Based on cotinine screening, 80% of patients in an urban public hospital were either active or second-hand smokers, according to a report in the October 1st American Journal of Epidemiology.
“If serum cotinine measurement became part of routine screening at urban public hospitals, cotinine levels would be abnormal in many patients and [...]
Offers to Cure President Obama of Smoking
September 24, 2009 — Jim Creech, a bilateral BK amputee with congestive heart disease caused by smoking has created a new, revolutionary course designed to allow a smoker to stop smoking easily, permanently and without using substitutes.
He is so confident that his method works that he has written a letter to President Obama offering to [...]
Why quitting smoking is so hard
Smoking causes cancer, emphysema and heart disease. It’s no secret that smoking deteriorates one’s health, yet kicking the bad habit remains a difficult task. New research reveals how your own memories may make quitting even harder.
Researchers explain why many smokers urge to light up after meals, while drinking alcohol or driving home from work. The [...]
Mindful path to quitting smoking
Habits are mental constructs. They are neural pathways, worn smooth by the frequency of their use. The most powerful constructs are ego-related, which I’ve written about previously and highly recommend further study before and during this suggested program. Since addictions are so tightly entwined with identity, it’s to be expected that people who have quit [...]
Thousands giving up smoking, NHS figures reveal
RECORD numbers of people quit smoking in Surrey during the past year, the latest figures have revealed.
Some 3,150 smokers kicked the habit during 2008/09, the equivalent of more than eight each day.
It is an increase of nearly 1,000 on the 2,227 people who stopped smoking in the previous 12 months, according to NHS statistics.
NHS Surrey [...]
NHS quitting campaign
The NHS is spending more money helping people stop smoking – but fewer are quitting, say official figures.
The cost per quitter was £219 in 2008/09 compared with £173 in 2007/08 and £160 in 2006/07.
The proportion of people successfully quitting last year went down four per cent. But spending went up 21 per cent last year [...]
Memorial Offers Traveling Smoking Prevention Exhibit
Memorial Health Care System will join with Smoke Free Chattanooga in hosting the Traveling “Wall” Exhibit: Tobacco Timeline in African-American History provided by the National African American Tobacco Prevention Network.
The exhibit is open to the community on Thursday, Aug. 13, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Memorial Hospital, Friday, Aug. 14, from 8:30 a.m. [...]
