Health Effects of Smoking

a href=”http://healtheffectsofsmoking.org/2009/09/smoking-causes-coronary-heart-disease/”>Heart disease and stroke are two of the leading causes of death in the US. Smoking is one of the main risk factors that increase the likelihood of cardiovascular diseases. By quitting smoking you can, over time, greatly reduce the chances of developing a cardiovascular disease and repair much of the damage [...]

he sad truth is that it typically takes smokers more than one attempt to quit. Don’t let this be an excuse. Still plan on succeeding right out of the gate. Many times people slip and smoke because they failed to take into account a stressful situation or they went to a night [...]

igarettes and other forms of tobacco—including cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, and chewing tobacco—contain the addictive drug nicotine. Nicotine is readily absorbed into the bloodstream when a tobacco product is chewed, inhaled, or smoked. A typical smoker will take 10 puffs on a cigarette over a period of 5 minutes that the cigarette is lit. Thus, [...]

he simple answer to this questions is “yes” nicotine is considered a drug and one a very powerful drug at that. It affects the brain in much of the same way as does cocaine and heroin.
A drug addiction is defined as – a chronic, relapsing brain disease that is characterized by compulsive [...]

ow that you are on your way to a smoke free life filled with new and exciting things it is time to focus on building new and healthy habits. When you quit smoking you are going to want to improve the quality of your life by repairing damage that smoking has caused over the [...]

or many of us, New Year’s resolutions are grandly made and easily broken. Why? Because a resolution is no more than a decision. To effect change you need to tie a decision with action and that is where people tend to fail. To make a major life’s change you need more than [...]

ecently I was reading a book on self-image pertaining to fat loss. As I was reading I soon realized that I could apply these same principles to many areas of my life. I began to think back to the days when I struggled with quitting smoking. How I would try and [...]

fter quitting smoking there will be times where you absolutely feel like you need a cigarette. Don’t give into the temptation! Beating an addiction takes willpower and determination. Remember why you are quitting and remind yourself that smoking does not have any benefits. It will NOT help you manage stress! [...]