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A Breakthrough in Using Affirmations to Quit Smoking
Has Smoking got you down?? Does it sometimes seem like insanity trying to quit? Make this your Banner Year for Changing all that! Make A New Year's Affirmation to Stop Smoking--Then do it!! Nicotine Addiction There is no longer any doubt that ...
Educate Your Child on Smoking
Studies show adults can quit smoking under care of a counselor and physician. But this possibility is next to impossible with teenagers. Pre- teen age is an age in which we want to gain each and every experience whether good or bad. Our habits start ...
Qutting Smoking - Ways to Stop
There are numerous ways that people use to stop smoking. People do actually succeed in stopping smoking but the same method of stopping does not work for everyone and sometimes the same method may finally work only after a second or third attempt at it is ...
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Why? Because smoking is a habit and habits are hard to break. Interestingly even efforts to raise the price of a pack of cigarettes have failed to slow the demand. And even though they aren't cheap, cigarettes are very easy to buy, which makes it even harder to break this habit.
Smoking is the number one contributor to lung cancer. Besides causing lung cancer, cigarette smoking can cause other health-related problems including emphysema, bronchitis, and heart disease. Combine cigarette smoking with excess weight, stress, and a sedentary lifestyle, and a person who smokes literally becomes a ticking time bomb.
Here are some interesting bits of information about smoking and lung cancer.
Any amount of smoking can ultimately cause lung cancer, but how long you have been smoking, how deeply you inhale, and how many cigarettes you smoke on a regular basis all impact the development of lung cancer. It goes without saying that people who smoke a pack or more a day and who have smoked most of their lives are significantly increasing the likelihood that lung cancer will develop.
Quitting smoking may not stop lung cancer from developing, but doing so still is highly advisable. You immediately lower your risk of developing lung cancer the moment you stop (but only when you stop for good). The body will go into repair mode within a day or two after you stop. It's not possible to determine whether the damage that has been done internally can be corrected, but stopping is worth the gamble.
Women are just as much at risk of developing lung cancer from smoking as men are, assuming equivalent smoking patterns and history. When it comes to lung cancer, men generally get most of the attention. There are more cases of men with smoking-related lung cancer than there are women, but don't let this statistic fool you. Women are in danger too. In fact, more women die each year from smoking-related lung cancer than from breast cancer.
Passive smoking can also cause lung cancer, even in people who do not smoke. Passive smoking is the same as inhaling second-hand smoke. If you smoke, be considerate to others who don't. Don't smoke in enclosed spaces such as homes or cars. This is especially important around small children who don't even realize the dangers they're being exposed to.
If a pregnant woman smokes, her unborn baby smokes too!
And finally smoking is the cause of 90% of the cases of lung cancer. That alone should keep you from starting!
About the author:
Gray Rollins is a featured writer for LifeLungCancer.com. To learn more about new lung cancer research and the link between smoking and lung cancer, visit our site.
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 Up in smoke: Bars ignore Dutch smoking ban - Washington Post
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- A growing number of Dutch bar and cafe owners are slapping ashtrays back on their tables just months after a nationwide smoking ban came into force for bars and restaurants, saying the measure is driving hundreds of small ...
Mo. ranks 49th, Ill. 43rd for funding tobacco-prevention programs - St. Louis Business Journal
Missouri ranks 49th in the nation in funding programs to protect kids from tobacco, a new report shows. Missouri spends $2.7 million a year on tobacco prevention programs, which is 3.7 percent of the $73 million recommended by the U.S. Centers for ...
Smoking ban, shaky economy wallop Dutch bars - Arizona Daily Star
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Hunkered down in a thick winter coat and scarf, Steven Jankipersadsing lit up a cigarette after finishing his bowl of pea soup outside a Dutch cafe. "I won't come here in the winter, I don't want to sit outside then," he ...
Iowa town is smoking mad over billboard - Omaha World-Herald
Drop dead, Lake View. That's not exactly the message of a new anti-tobacco billboard near the bucolic northwest Iowa town, but it's close enough, some community leaders said Wednesday. "Lake View. Tobacco can kill this town in 1 day," reads the sign ...
Smoking allowed inside two county bars till 2011 - Cumberland Times-News
CUMBERLAND — Two Allegany County establishments have received temporary waivers to the state’s Clean Indoor Air Act. The waivers allow smokers to light up inside Shooters Bar and Grill on U.S. Route 220 south of Cumberland and Smitty’s on ...
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