Stop Smoking-Improve Your Health

Many campaigns have been, and are being, conducted all over the world to educate people and help them to get rid of this addiction. Individual Governments, NGOs, and medical clinics conduct smoking cessation campaigns and awareness programs regularly. Campaigns by NGOs and medical clinics in different cities around the world carry the name of the [...]

Quit Smoking for the Family That Loves You

If you are a smoker, you may justify your smoking habit by thinking that you are only hurting yourself. After all, you have made the choice to smoke, opening yourself up to numerous smoking related diseases, but you are not forcing those you love to do the same. If you have ever thought about trying [...]

Creating a Secondhand Smoke-free Home

According to the National Cancer Institute, a person does not have to be smoker for him to be harmed by smoking. You can develop health problems simply from breathing in other people’s smoke. Secondhand smoke, also called environmental tobacco smoke or ETS, is the combination of smoke that comes from a lighted cigarette, cigar, or [...]

Passive Smoking Of Cigarettes And Its Effect On The Health Of Loved Ones You

Although most people know that smoking is dangerous, many smokers cannot seem to quit. They defend their habit by saying that they are only affecting themselves if they smoke. However, smoking also has an effect on the health of those who don’t smoke. Family, children, friends, co-workers, and even bystanders may suffer health effects from [...]

How to Help a Friend Quit Smoking

How to help a friend quit smoking Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death in the U.S.  Smoking causes lung cancer, heart attacks, emphysema, and stroke.  People who smoke have much  shorter life expectancies than people who don’t. How do you help a friend or family member quit smoking?  It isn’t easy.  Smoking is a [...]

Health Risks of Passive Cigarette Smoking

le know that smoking is dangerous, yet despite knowing about the dangerous effects of smoking on their personal health, many smokers never quit. They rationalize their habit by thinking that they are only hurting themselves when they smoke. However, smoking also affects the health of people who do not smoke. Friends, children, family, co-workers, and [...]

Why Do We Smoke?

Cigarette manufactures have been required to put warnings on all their packages of cigarettes to tell us that cigarette smoking is dangerous to our health so why do we still smoke. According to United States studies, cigarette smoking is responsible for one out of every five deaths in the U.S. Smoking robs more than five [...]