• What is a Smoking Addiction

     What Is A Smoking Addiction.pdf   Edited by Guy Slowik A smoking addiction means a person has formed an uncontrollable dependence on cigarettes to the point where stopping smoking would cause severe emotional, mental, or physical reactions. More >>

  • Why is Smoking Addictive

     Why Is Smoking Addictive.pdf   Nicotine is the drug in tobacco that causes addiction. It is absorbed and enters the bloodstream, through the lungs when smoke is inhaled, and through the lining of the mouth (buccal mucosa) when tobacco is chewed or used as oral snuff or for non-inhaled More >>

  • How Smoking Affects the Body

     How Smoking Affects the Body.pdf   Edited by Guy Slowik Smoking causes many premature deaths from diseases that are largely incurable, but preventable by stopping smoking. There are three main killing diseases which smoking causes or brings on earlier: More >>

  • Benefits of Giving Up Smoking

     Benefits of giving up smoking.pdf   Giving up smoking will help avoid most of the risks of developing cancer, even in middle age. Giving up smoking before middle age can prevent 90 per cent of the health risks associated with smoking. These benefits apply to giving up cigarettes, cigars, pi More >>

  • Help With Giving Up Smoking

     Benefits of giving up smoking.pdf   Giving up smoking will help avoid most of the risks of developing cancer, even in middle age. Giving up smoking before middle age can prevent 90 per cent of the health risks associated with smoking. These benefits apply to giving up cigarettes, cigars, pi More >>

  • How Passive Smoking Hurts

     How passive smoking hurts.pdf   Just in the UK, more than 17 000 children are hospitalised every year due to respiratory problems caused by their exposure to parents' smoke. Yet, a UK survey found that about half of smokers still think that smoking "can't really be all that dangerous". More >>

  • Smoking and Pregnancy

     Smoking and pregnancy.pdf   Protecting your baby from tobacco smoke is one of the best things you can do to give your child a healthy start in life. It's never too late to stop smoking. Every cigarette you smoke in pregnancy harms your unborn baby. Cigarettes restrict the essential More >>

  • Effects of Smoking

     Effects of Smoking.pdf   Smoking isn't good for one's body. Especially if you've been smoking a pack a day, and for a long period of time. But what is the full extent of the effects of smoking on your body? More >>

  • Genetic differences help explain cigarette addiction

     Genetic differences help explain cigarette addiction.pdf   Two studies of smokers have yielded new insight into a gene linked to cigarette addiction. The findings could lead to more personalised - and ultimately more effective - treatments that help people to quit smoking. More >>

  • Getting the best treatment for smoking addiction

     Getting the best treatment for smoking addiction.pdf   When it comes to getting the best treatment for smoking addiction, what is the best treatment for you to start with? Is it nicotine patches, Acupuncture, hypnosis? The only answer to this particular question is going to be your doctor’s job to find out th More >>
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