Health Effects of Smoking

any people think that they can have just one cigarette after quitting. Maybe they are enjoying a night on the town, throwing down a few drinks and the smell of others smoking triggers that craving. It is easy to think that having a cigarette won’t hurt but 90 percent of smokers who smoke [...]

hen a person picks up their first cigarette odds are they are between the ages of 10 and 20. Most people in that age range don’t take into account the long-term effects of positive nor negative habits unless they have a role model that is teaching them by example.
Fifty percent of those that try [...]

fter you quit smoking you are going to want to continue to make smart choices. There are certain things to do and things you should not do. For starters you want to avoid things such as fast food, alcohol, and eating to much ice cream. All these things can lead to cravings [...]

ccording to the American Lung Association, among adults who smoke, 68 percent began before the age of 18, and 85 percent started when they were under 21. This it is pretty significant – somehow a drug that isn’t supposed to be aimed at our youth is being picked up by them. Why is this? [...]

strong>To avoid gaining weight when you quit smoking, you need to become more physically active and improve your eating habits before you quit. Physical activity helps to control your weight by increasing the number of calories your body uses. Making healthy changes to your eating habits will prevent weight gain by controlling the amount of [...]

ater is essential to life as we know it. To be more specific our bodies contain nearly 60 percent of water. If we were to break that down a bit we would see that lean muscle tissue contains about 75 percent water by weight. Blood contains almost 70 percent water, body fat contains [...]

here are many, many techniques that people have come up with over the years to help quit smoking. As I was looking for additional information on the topic I came across a book called Switch down and Quit: What the Tobacco Companies Don’t Want You Know about Smoking. The book was not what [...]

Smoking can affect the health of your mouth and throat. Not only does smoking cause odor and discoloration but it can lead to mouth cancer and many other cancers. The longer you smoke and the more you smoke will greatly impact the risk of developing mouth cancer.
Thousands of people die each year from [...]

The health effects of smoking are serious. Many people think that they can get away with smoking and die at a nice old of 70 or 80 but the fact of the matter people are dying in their 30’s and 40’s. Smoking is like playing Russian roulette with your life. You don’t [...]