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How smoking harms people of all ages
Toxic ingredients in cigarette smoke travel throughout the body, causing damage in several different ways. Nicotine reaches the brain within 10 seconds after smoke is inhaled....read more
Little ways to go about quitting
Why give up smoking? It kills. It costs. It’s simple. Nicotine replacement therapy Nicotine Replacement Therapies (NRT) come in the form of patches, gums and sprays. It helps to...read more
Nicotine replacement therapy
Nicotine, when inhaled with tobacco smoke, creates a physical addiction. Nicotine withdrawal can result in unpleasant symptoms: craving for cigarettes, irritability, depression, inability to concentrate,Smoking affects your heart
The single most important thing a smoker can do to reduce their risk of developing coronary heart disease is to stop smoking. Smoking just 5 cigarettes a day can double the chance of having a heart attack and...read more
Smoking and breastfeeding
Breastfeeding has important health benefits for both infant and mother. Mothers who smoke are less likely to start breastfeeding their babies than non-smoking mothers,109 and tend to breastfeed for a shorter ...read more
Smoking and pregnancy
Smoking rates are going down among Americans. However, the smoking rates among women are going down more slowly than among men. In fact, among high school seniors, teenage girls now smoke as much or more than...read more
Smoking cessation
Non-nicotine Products Zyban Zyban (bupropion hydrochloride) tablets address the biology of the addiction and help reduce intense withdrawal symptoms from nicotine. Nortriptyline ...read more
Smoking facts
Smoking is one of the worst things you can do to your body. Yet every single day around 450 young people, in the UK, between the ages 12 and 17 start smoking. Crazy huh? especially when you read these statist...read more
Smoking: the facts
There are approximately 15 million cigarette smokers in Britain, despite the overall fall in the level of cigarette smoking from 41% of the population in 1976 to 27% in 2003. Roughly equal numbers of men and ...read more
The effects of smoking
Smoking affects everybody differently. The number of cigarettes smoked per day and the age at which you start smoking are some of the things that may influence what affect smoking has on you. Research has sho...read more
Tobacco and smoking
Smoking statistics are frightening. Smoking is the largest cause of death and disease in the UK. An estimated 21 million people in the developed world alone died during the last decade as a result of smoking....read more
Tobacco facts
The nicotine found in cigarettes and in smokeless tobacco is a powerful, addictive drug that acts on several parts of the body. Once addicted, it becomes difficult, but not impossible, to qui...read more
Why start smoking and how to give up
Why start smoking? Even though we all know about the health risks connected to smoking, thousands of people decide to start every year - and a large number of adults who carry on smoking say that they starte...read more
Women and smoking
Cigarette smoking prevalence among women • Cigarette smoking was rare among women in the early 20th century. Cigarette smoking became prevalent among women after it did among men, and smoking prevalenc...read more
You can and need to quit smoking!
We've all heard the statistics. Smoking is the number one preventable risk factor for a variety of diseases in our society. One in five deaths in the United States can be directly attributed to smoking. It in...read more
