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it can't be same wit the lovely Kemboja that i had....

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When You Smoke Cigarettes Your Baby Also Smokes Too!!!!

If you smoke during pregnant, your baby born may be born underweight (under 5lbs.) and this situation is not healthy. Apart from that your baby may be die before being born or your baby may die during first year of life,be born premature or being retarded mind, have small lung and die,suffer respiratory problems, have learning problem later on and so on...

start healthy life today.... it start from your self

One may not be very surprised to know that nearly 75% of the people active smokers want to quit but they find it difficult to say the least. However, it is not difficult to quit smoking if a person wishes to do so. The first step required in order to quit smoking is to be honest to you and stop befooling yourself. Only very few people are able to do so without assistance or medication for that matter.

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Conclusion of smoking..

Smoking is a habit which individuals find difficult to quit. Many people make preparations for months in their effort to get rid of the habit, making painstaking plans to eliminate their dependence on nicotine. However making an effort to give up the habit of smoking all on a sudden is far more likely to yield satisfactory results.

Spontaneous efforts to end the habit of smoking have a greater rate of success in comparison to planned attempts made by individuals to give up the habit.

This can be attributed to the fact that prior planning gives rise to tension, making it difficult for smokers to kick the habit. Giving up the habit of smoking is one of the most crucial things that an individual can probably do. Quitting smoking ensures a longer and better life. People who quit smoking have reduced risks of suffering a heart attack, stroke or cancer. Pregnant women who give up smoking enhance the likelihood of having healthy baby.

In order to quit smoking individuals should prepare themselves for the move. It is imperative that one should get support for their endeavor to quit smoking. One should learn new skills and behaviors in order to give up smoking for good. One should obtain medication and utilize it properly. A person should be ready to face tough situations or a relapse. With a view to quit smoking one should fix a quit date. An individual should also make an attempt to alter one’s surroundings by removing the entire stock of cigarettes along with ashtrays in the home. A person must also prohibit others from smoking in one’s home. It is advisable to assess past efforts in giving up smoking and take into consideration what worked and what did not.

Bad Smoking Habits

Smoking itself is a bad habit, but if you can’t give it up, you can at least cut back on some of your bad smoking habits. Do you smoke in bed for example? That’s not only a bad habit but also a dangerous one, as many house fires start because someone fell asleep with a lit cigarette still between his fingers.

Reaching for a cigarette first thing in the morning is another habit which you should try to get out of. Try doing some deep breathing exercises instead. Smoking in the kitchen, especially when you are cooking is also something which should be avoided, as ash can easily fall into the food.

Not paying attention to when and how often you smoke is another bad habit and one which can mean you are smoking a lot more than you think. So make a note of every cigarette you smoke for a week and notice when you smoke unconsciously, that is without noticing you’re doing it. Once you are fully aware of your bad smoking habits, you can start to do something to change them and you should be able to cut down substantially in the process. If you smoke when talking on the phone, keep your cigarettes and ashtray out of reach. If you go out drinking with friends, make a conscious effort to smoke less – the pub is the place you are most likely to smoke too much.

Smoking around babies or children is another bad habit and one which could have serious consequences for their health, as passive smoking has now been proved to cause the same illnesses as active smoking. If you smoke in public places, then you need to be careful not to blow smoke in the faces of non-smokers around you as this is putting them at risk and is also extremely unpleasant as it can irritate the eyes and nose, as well as making their clothes smell.

If you can’t give up completely at least give up some of your bad smoking habits

Choosing The Right Time To Quit

When you finally decided to quit smoking, that will be a historical day of your life. It is never easy to choose the right date so below are some guidelines on which days you should choose to quit smoking and which days you should not.

The days you should avoid are the days when you are experience either one of the following events:

• A big event such as an upcoming marriage, graduation, finals etc.
• A loss or traumatic event, such as a death in the family or a divorce
• Other particularly stressful events in your life.

However, the days you should choose are as below:

• Your birthday
• New year
• World No Tobacco Day

Smoke Away asks: Why haven’t you quit smoking yet?

The makers of Smoke Away would like to drive the point home visually for those of you out there who just don’t get it. So we start by saying, “What the hell is your problem?” Are you the type of person that reads something like this and says,”Hmmm, that’s not a bad idea!”

Or maybe this looks really sexy to you and makes your mouth water at the prospect of puttting another cancer stick in your mouth?

mmmm.. yummy isn’t it? or perhaps you are the type of person where one of these phrases makes sense to you? What is it going to take to get through to you?

Ohhhh ok we get it, you don’t think there’s really anything bad in a cigarette other than the nicotine…OK then don’t worry about the butane, the cadmium, the stearic acid, the industrial solvent, the insecticide and the toilet cleaner, the vinegar, the sewer gas, the arsenic, the carbon monoxide, and the rocket fuel that is in each and every cigarette.

But what are a couple of cigarettes going to do to me? Well lets look at the anatomy of your typical female. Now keep in mind, cigarettes are not choosy, they’ll poison and pounce on anyone who chooses to light up. But lets look shall we? Starting from the head on down we have wrinkles, the inability to smell properly, bad breath, yellow teeth, the inability to taste correctly, gum disease, a persistent hacking cough, a nice persistent back ache, more fat, the inability to go to the bathroom properly, lower chance of having a child, and slower wound healing. Mmm.. makes you want to run right out and smoke doesn’t it?

Lastly lets look at some quick statistics of just what cigarettes and second hand smoke and its ilk do to people. Choose to pick your poison?

Listen, we don’t care HOW you quit smoking. In fact, the makers of Smoke Away would love for you to use our product, but more importantly, we want you to quit smoking using ANY product. Just quit. Not for us, for you, your family and your friends. If you want to talk to some people that have stopped smoking using our product, or people that are still in the throws of quitting, or people who have just plain quit, Try the Smoke Away Support site. Good Luck.

Smoking - its a matter of life and death

The Trust’s total no smoking ban is now in place at Bassetlaw and Montagu Hospitals and DRI. Smoking is outlawed in hospital buildings and grounds, and in Trust vehicles and other office premises. The ban took effect from midnight on Wednesday 30 May in time World Tobacco Free Day on 31 May.
For one patient, giving up smoking was a matter of life and death and there was no question but to give up.
Former miner, Ron Poulston, who is now retired, was attending the Chest Clinic with Consultant Physician, Dr Trevor Rogers, when he was told some home truths. Ron explains: “I was told in no uncertain terms that my emphysema would get worse and that I only had a 25% lung function left. Dr Rogers started talking about lung transplants. It’s the last thing anyone wants to hear and it came as such a shock.
“I knew there and then the damage was irreversible and I had a choice - I either carried on and risked death or I stopped smoking.”
Ron remembers well the date he stopped smoking: it was 22 January 1999 at 10.25am - the time that he had the bad news from Dr Rogers. Ron made the decision instantly to stop and has stuck to it ever since. He said he still misses the pleasure of smoking as his generation grew up thinking it was cool to smoke.
But there have been benefits. Ron added: “Smokers can’t begin to imagine how things smell and things taste different. Another benefit is the cost factor: look at the ridiculously high cost of smoking. I feel a lot better than I would have done if I had carried on smoking.
“Finally, if you can you want to avoid ever hearing the words ‘irreversible’ and ‘incurable’, now’s the time to stop.”
Dr Rogers is the Trust’s lead physician for lung cancer. He is in no doubt about the link between smoking and ill health. He sees patients with the early symptoms of lung cancer: “Lung cancer is almost entirely preventable. People must stop smoking and make some ‘lifestyle changes’ – but there is help with smoking cessation.
He advises going to see a family doctor quickly with any worrying symptoms: “Early reporting of symptoms is important. Shortness of breath, coughing, coughing blood, and unexplained weight loss or tiredness – with any of these symptoms, see your GP straight away. Early treatment can mean a much better chance of recovery.”

Conclusion

Smokers have made it clear that smoking does have its benefits, but all of the dangerous effects clearly outweigh any positive elements smoking may have. Sure you can lessen your stress and keep your weight down, but increasing your risk for such a high number of health risks just isn’t worth it. Knowing this, if you don’t currently smoke don’t pick up the habit. If you do currently smoke, pinpointing what you think are the benefits of smoking can be a very good way to help you quit. Doing this will allow you to replace cigarettes with a healthier alternative.

If you smoke to help fight stress, try going for a walk, playing with an animal, or taking time to do something you love instead of smoking a cigarette. Are you a smoker with depression? Taking a medication like Zyban will help you quit smoking by lessening withdrawal symptoms while also fighting depression. Are you afraid that when you quit smoking you’ll gain weight? Chew a piece of gum or have a piece of fruit or other healthy snack when your appetite kicks in.

If you’re a smoker and want more information on effective ways to quit, please visit the following link that has many useful tips: http://www.smokefree.gov/quit-smoking/index.html

Smoking is Anti-Social

I am not a smoker and I am totally anti-smoking. I cannot understand why smokers wish to have a habit that could cause them various health problems and even kill them. I think smoking should definitely be banned in public. It is the most anti-social but accepted pastime. It is unfair that non-smokers can't go to pubs without being surrounded by other people's smelly cigarette smoke, that causes their clothes to stink of fags. There are also the potential health risks of passive smoking. If people wish to participate in this filthy habit, they should do it in their own homes where they are not harming others.

Smoking in public

Ok I don’t care if you smoke or not. You can kill yourself with your own hands for all that matters I DON’T care BUT please when you are in public, just don’t do it!

I was in a cafe yesterday, and I felt suffocated in there, everyone was smoking. I don’t get why people come to eat AND smoke. Isn’t a restaurant a place to eat? I noticed that here, more women than men smoke. Most of them wear trendy cloths and are stick thin. I don’t know what’s up with that but anyways, don’t they think of how much they annoy and harm non-smokers, kids, older people, sick people and pregnant ladies?

… Do You Know What Can Happen to other people while inhaling that filth?

1. When people smoke, those around them are affected both by smoke from a burning cigarette and by second-hand or passive smoke- this is the smoke that the smoker blows back out after inhaling.

2. Passive smoke is worse than the smoke that a smoker inhales from a cigarette- passive smoke is much more concentrated.

What happens to children when they are around passive smoke:

✦ More respiratory illnesses, including asthma
✦ Growth may be slowed
✦ Increased chance of having chronic lung disease as an adult

I hope this country, the one I come from and the one I am currently living in, considers banning smoking in public places.

IIUM Smoking Zone ???

Mon, Dec 18- Quite a number of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) students are seen to smoke in the public area openly without fear towards any actions that might be taken upon them due to the lack of authority inspection.

These students are brave to reveal their obsession without even care neither the IIUM rules and regulations, nor the privacy and rights of other students.
The most popular spots for these smokers are the open air dining cafeteria, such as Bassbusa, Kyros Kebab, Economics café and Nescafe.

Nadhila, 24, Psychology student said, ”It is inappropriate to smoke openly in the campus since it polluted the academic surrounding.”

“It is good if other students are brave enough to approach and admonish those smokers directly. Although it is not a major problem in IIUM, but the danger due to the exposure is there.” she added.

Nadhila’s statement is agreed by Suhaina, 21, also a Psychology student by insisting that smoking is clearly prohibited in the campus, and it is unethical to grab the rights of others to inhale the fresh air.

“Students always mumble saying that they don’t have enough money, but actually they are wasting money for cigarettes.”

“There is no good of smoking, where as it would lead to erectal disfunction as well.” she said.
According to Arifuddin, 23, Bachelor of English Language (BENL) student, “I’m not a smoker, so I don’t like smokers too.”

“Passive smokers have larger possibilities to get the impact compared to the first degree smokers. They smoke, but we are the victims since we consumed the poisonous air that they released.” he added.

However, Abdullah, 23, Information Communication Technology (ICT) student brought up a different view,”It is individuals’ rights, and I think IIUM should provide a specific place or a smoking area for the students to smoke.”

Smoking

This is a 4 years-old child of a Taman Negara jungle tribe (Malaysia). She's smoking a well known brand of cigarettes. After see this picture i very sad because just 4 years old child already smoking, why parent didn't stop her?Hoped one day she'll aware.

SummARY

Art depicts the moment of everyday life and its surrounding is known as genre. Is is occur in all periods history of art, culture and parts of the world. Art from China is depicted the social issues. Artist also depicted a delightful scene of daily activity. On the other hand wealthy people paid artist s to illuminate books, especially prayer books. Further more; Egyptian presented the afterlife by painting on the tomb walls known as Meketre. Artists also have often turned the art to stories for subject matter. According to this, many artists never lose their interest in everyday thing.

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art & RELIgion

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Health Hazards of Tobacco

Smoking is a health hazard because so many people lose their lives due to smoking-related diseases. Smoking affects different parts of your body such as the heart, lungs, and brain. The chemicals and poisons in cigarettes can cause emphysema, bronchitis, heart disease, heart attacks, stroke, and cancer. One in two smokers dies prematurely from smoking. Lung cancer accounts for 22% of cancer deaths, and it is the most common type of cancer. One in four people that develop cancer get lung cancer.

Also 90% of the people who get cancer of the mouth and throat get it because they used tobacco. Different types of cancer also include liver, stomach, bladder, kidney, and cervical cancer. Forty years of smoking causes a 60% greater chance of getting breast cancer. And if a person smokes a pack or more a day the risk is 83% higher.

There are 1.1 billion tobacco users worldwide. Smoking can also ruin your appearance by staining your teeth, yellowing your fingernails, and causes wrinkles, gum disease, tooth decay, and bad breath. Smoking can cause a decrease in athletic performance, such as not being able to run fast or jump as high. Chronic coughing, more phlegm in your mouth, and asthma are also effects that smoking can have on your body.

The following pictures are very graphic. If you are at all squeamish do not look at the following:


Gangrene - due to decreased blood flow caused by smoking

Mouth cancer and Lip cancer

Lip cancer caused by years of smoking

These picture came from smoker's body parts. These are actual images and have not been enhanced or altered in any way.

Is this what you want your body to look like?

Smoking Athletes?

In fitness world, many athletes do exercise with supplements, steroids or spandex. On the contrary, it is the almost incredible combination of exercise and smoking. However, there are people who do both. They compete in marathons and triathlons and go hiking and train at the gym, and also have a pretty steady cigarette habit.

For example, “At the Pikes Peak Marathon, A nonsmoker won, and the three smokers who ran never finished the race. A smoker did beat to the top, but decided to smoke a cigarette instead of heading back.” It shows that nonsmokers are better than smokers at Marathon, triathlons and something like that. In other words, smoking doesn’t have any good things for athletes and it is just one of bad habits.

So, the smokers have different point of view about their habit. Some think it doesn’t matter and others think when they should try to quit. But for now, smoking and exercise continue to run in synchronization.

MY OPINION:

There is no reason why people do exercise and smoking? It is so bad for our lungs and body. Can they say, they really do exercise for their health? Of course, smoking and exercise is better than smoking and sitting. However, it is obviously not the smartest thing, and these athletes could probably do better if they didn't smoke.

Moreover, smoking causes consistent damage to the body. If someone is exercising and smoking they have serious issues on a number of levels, including a strong possibility of mental illness. Actually, many people have lung cancer or emphysema because of smoking. So, I think the best way is that smokers stop smoking even if they don’t exercise. To stop smoking is the first thing!

Disadvantages of Smoking

Do you know quitting smoking is very easy, knowing how to quit it. It's just your mental thinking that is stopping you to stop smoking. There is a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy available using which you can easily stop smoking without any side effects.

Smoking is very dangerous for your health. There are only disadvantages of smoking. I can't find any single advantage of smoking. However if you ask smoker, "Why do you smoke? What you will get by smoking a cigarette?" Well, they will tell you lots of benefits of smoking. Some of them are smoking makes you relax, smoking reduces stress etc...

Cigarettes are made using tobacco. Tobacco contains nicotine. Nicotine is very harmful drug for your health. When you smoke a cigarette, you are not taking only nicotine inside your body but you take thousands of other chemicals also.

At the time of smoking, you are taking carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in to your lung through tobacco burning. This carbon dioxide will be mixed with your blood and slowly it will reduce your efficiency of doing work. I mean you will feel tired. You cannot run as fast as non smoker can run. Smoking will create breath problems. Another problem with smoking is that it may increase your blood pressure. Chances of heart attack will increase with smoking. Chances of being diabetic patient will be more. Chances of lung cancer will be more in smoker because of carbon monoxide and nicotine.

Your immune system will also be affected. Smoker feel elder than non smoker of their age. Resistance power against diseases will be reduced.

Another issue is that work capacity of your brain will be reduced. Study shows that smokers will start losing their memory at the age of 50. Stress problem is common in smokers. Sometimes it leads to minor depression. Smoking creates only problems. So be deterministic and quit smoking for good.

STOP SMOKING, EASY, QUIT SMOKING, SIMPLY !

If you are on the path or have decided that you want to or are going to quit, this is it! Cutting down/Butting out for good, led you to picking up this guide to learn more. Natural curiosity brought you this far. Stay tuned to learn HOW.

Some fear for their health and do not want to die and once they hear the facts it is enough to let them make the final decision to STOP SMOKING.

Maybe your own coughing has led you to realizing that you are in fact gambling with your own life and longevity. You have had enough and want to quit! You might also have a negative effect by this destructive habit on the people around you including your kids and family.

There is MORE to quitting smoking than simply stopping you need to unlock the secrets of not returning to bad old habits that do tend to die rather hard. Many fail at trying to quit, have and will down the line. Your story and path need NOT go down that road.

Diagnosing and treating a condition or addiction for that matter, might require some intensive therapy and intervention to get the desired outcome, success and results. There are limitations, pros and cons to every conceivable method of coping with substance abuse and nicotine-type addictions.

Hypnosis has been proven to be quite effective, however it cannot cure all ills, nor is it the quick-fit, silver-bullet solution some make it out to be. Realistic expectations, good know how and disciplined, consistent good choices will all do their part to get you where you need to be/go!

Utilizing and optimizing techniques like relaxation, induced, guided, hypnosis and even self-hypnosis, making the most of the body, mind connection and interrelatedness to get results can work wonders. This might be leading to behavior modification of some bad habitual tendencies and actions. These are at the very center and core of some of the most advanced techniques of cessation treatment for smoking.

Safe for all and not dangerous or harmful in any way, shape or form, there are lots of options and applications for this natural process, tried and true accepted method of practice.

Many want to be assured that the treatment that they seek are right for them, that there are some standards and measurements, rules of thumb that apply to and help all.

This section of the exhibit on anti-smoking campaigns scrutinizes the political, social, and psychological messages utilized by anti-tobacco educators since the 1960s in print advertisements, posters, and billboards, in order to examine how traditional values, cultural conditions, and medical knowledge are conveyed in print media. The exhibit includes images of the cigarette, the smoker, the nonsmoker, smoke-free environments, and celebrities in a variety of campaigns created by voluntary organizations, professional advertising firms, and governmental organizations.

In the first half of the twentieth century, anti-smoking messages emphasized primarily moralistic and hygienic concerns. Anti-tobacco crusaders saw the cigarette as ungodly and unhealthy. Although medical objections to smoking remained implicit in their arguments, activists did not have any medical consensus behind them. In fact, medical opinion was generally noncommittal until the 1964 Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health, which consolidated and legitimized 15 years of growing evidence of the dangers of smoking to health.

The 1964 Surgeon General's report marked the beginning of a transformation in attitudes and behaviors related to cigarettes, but smoking norms and habits yielded slowly and incompletely. Despite legislative restrictions on advertising in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the persistent and pervasive marketing of cigarettes continued in different forums. Still, grassroots activists, professional consumer advocates, and the public health bureaucracy remained inspired by scientific and social interest in the hazards of smoking. Their collective anti-smoking campaigns have employed a variety of educational, clinical, regulatory, economic, and counter-advertising strategies.

Only half hour of passive smoking 'damages heart'

Passive smoking for just 30 minutes can damage the heart, according to a study which immediately prompted new calls for more California-style restrictions to stop non-smokers being exposed to fumes.
Japanese doctors said they had evidence that the coronary circulation of healthy non-smokers was affected so badly by short exposure to fumes that parts of their hearts looked no different from that of smokers.

The team from Osaka city university medical school, reporting in the Journal of the American Medical Association, used ultrasound imaging to check chambers, valves and other parts of the hearts of 15 non-smokers and 15 "healthy" smokers, with an average age of 27, before and after exposing them to 30 minutes of passive smoking.

They measured the so-called coronary flow velocity reserve (CFVR), which indicates how well cells that line cavities of the heart and blood vessels perform.

"Our data revealed that temporary passive smoking abruptly reduced CFVR in non-smokers but did not affect CFVR in active smokers. This provides direct evidence of a harmful effect of passive smoking on the coronary circulation in non-smokers."

The authors admitted however that the study did not allow them to assess the long-term effects of passive smoking, or for how long the CFVR was reduced in non-smokers. "These effects may be worth testing in a long term trial."

The American Heart Association has suggested that risk of death from heart disease might be increased by 30% among those exposed to smoke from other people's tobacco at home and by more in those who endure "secondhand" smoke at work.

An editorial accompanying the Japanese study said the findings "add to the evidence that everyone should be protected from even short term exposure to toxins in secondhand smoke".

One of the editorial's authors, Stanton Glantz, of the University of California will tomorrow be the first witness at an inquiry into smoking in public places by the Greater London assembly.

Action on Smoking and Health said: "If something as hazardous as cigarette smoke was leaking from a pipe in a factory, inspectors would close it down, yet there are still 3m non-smokers in Britain that are frequently or continuously exposed to tobacco smoke at work."

The Department of Health said a survey this summer would review how many restuarants, pubs and other licensed premises were following voluntary codes on providing more non-smoking areas.

Exposure to smoking can make you deaf

Earlier this week BBCi carried an article Smoking link to hearing problems. A fetus whose mother smoked during pregnancy or teenagers who smoke are at risk from experiencing "auditory attention deficits".

To quote the New Scientist:

Nicotine may cause the teenage brain to develop abnormality, resulting in changes to the structure of white matter [brain] ... Teenagers who smoke or whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are more likely to suffer from auditory attention deficits ....

Prenatal and adolescent exposure to tobacco smoke were associated with changes in white matter in brain pathways that relay signals to the war.

This had picked up on earlier research by Jacobsen, et al at Yale University, carrying on from previous work that stated in terms of prenatal exposure to nicotine:

... clinical studies have linked maternal smoking during pregnancy with persistent deficits ... [in] auditory processing in offspring. (Fried et al, 1997, 2003; McCartney et al, 1994)

And similarly for teenagers:

Nicotine is also disruptive to adolescent brain development (Abreu-Villaca et al., 2003) ... Neurodevelopment continues through adolescence.

Reduce Smoking, Boost Heart Health

NEW YORK - Smokers who quit or even just cut down on cigarettes can begin to reap the health benefits within a few months, new study findings suggest.

In the study, individuals who gradually quit smoking saw improvements in risk factors for heart disease, including lower cholesterol and carbon monoxide levels. The findings may encourage some of the millions of smokers worldwide to cut back on tobacco, which will cause an estimated 10 million deaths a year by 2030, report researchers led by Dr. Bjorn Eliasson from Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Goteborg, Sweden.

"Smoking reduction results in improvements in established cardiovascular risk factors...which has the potential to benefit individual and public health," the authors write.

Over 4 months, 33 adults who had smoked 15 or more cigarettes a day for at least 3 years reduced and tried to quit smoking. To help curb their cravings, they used a nicotine-containing nasal spray manufactured by Pharmacia Consumer Healthcare, which funded the study.

After 9 weeks, participants had cut their smoking in half, on average. Levels of carbon monoxide declined by about 17%, while total cholesterol and LDL ("bad") cholesterol levels also fell. Meanwhile, HDL ("good") cholesterol rose, and the blood's capacity to transport oxygen also improved, Eliasson's team reports in the August issue of Nicotine & Tobacco Research.

Carbon monoxide is a byproduct of tobacco smoke that has been found to boost cholesterol, levels of white blood cells and other risk factors for heart disease. The gas can also impair the blood's ability to transport oxygen throughout the body, which may raise the risk of heart attack.

According to previous research cited in the report, reducing total cholesterol by up to 9% and reducing LDL cholesterol by just 1% can lower a person's risk of heart disease.

"Reduction (of smoking) is a step in the right direction, especially for those that are not quite ready to stop yet," Eliasson told Reuters Health, although he added that it could be difficult for some people to maintain a lower level for a long period of time.

Ways to Quit Smoking

Very Hard To Quit Smoker who are able to quit without help consist only about 5 percent. The success rate averages about 30 percent for people who combine pharmacologic therapy with support and counseling from a health care provider.

Pharmacologic Therapy

"Pharmacologic therapy, in addition to support and counseling, is the state-of-the-art treatment right now,'' says Dr. Hurt, who leads a team of Mayo scientists evaluating smoking cessation therapies. "It's a pretty small price to pay for an increased success rate." If you've failed in past attempts to stop smoking, there is still hope for success.

Cigarette Substitutes

Richard D. Hurt, M.D. says the most promising smoking cessation medications currently available use means other than cigarettes to deliver smaller amounts of nicotine to the brain or alter the release of brain chemicals to mimic the effect of nicotine. The treatments are short-term. Their purpose is to relieve the withdrawal symptoms that make it so difficult to stop smoking. Not Well-Established The least hairy, unshaven areas are best. The optimal length of treatment is not well-established; it depends on the individual needs of each person. The usual length of treatment is 6 to 8 weeks. Advantages: There are few side effects. It's easy to use and only needs to be applied once a day. Disadvantages: Dosage is less flexible than other products, and the nicotine is delivered relatively slowly to the brain. Mild skin rashes are common.

Nasal Spray

The nicotine in Nicotrol NS is sprayed directly into each nostril. It is absorbed through nasal membranes into blood veins, returned to the heart, then sent to the brain. The spray provides a quicker delivery system than nicotine gum, although not nearly as quick as a cigarette. The usual dose - one spray into each nostril - is 1 milligram (mg) of nicotine.

Eight Doses Per Day

People typically are directed to start with one to two doses per hour, with a minimum of eight doses per day and a maximum of 40 doses per day. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for instructions. For most people, use of the spray should be reduced 6 to 8 weeks into the treatment.

Advantages:

It's flexible in schedule of use. It delivers nicotine rapidly for quick reduction in cravings. You can use it in response to urges to smoke. Disadvantages: During the early days of treatment, it can be irritating to the nose, causing a hot, peppery feeling along with watery eyes, runny nose, coughing and sneezing.

Smoker's Nicorette Gum

The strategy for using nicotine gum is to "bite a few times and park it between the cheek and gums," says Dr. Hurt. That's because nicotine from the gum is absorbed through the lining of the mouth. It's not absorbed from the stomach. If you chew the gum rapidly and swallow the saliva, you may become nauseated - and you'll not get the desired level of nicotine.

Dr. Hurt

Marketed as Nicorette, the gum comes in 2 mg and 4 mg doses. Dr. Hurt says the 4 mg dose is more appropriate for heavy smokers. When properly used, it takes about 30 minutes to absorb all the nicotine from the gum. Advantages: It's convenient and flexible in schedule of use. Disadvantages: You can't eat or drink anything when the gum is in your mouth. If you have dental problems or arthritis of the jaw joint, it may be best to avoid nicotine gum.

Anti-smoking posters

Our students were invited to create posters for an anti-smoking contest. Would you still want to smoke after seeing these?

Smokers and Ex-smokers

Smokers always feel that smoking helps them in getting rid from unhappiness, stress, boredom, anxiousness and loneliness. The life without a cigarette means complete boredom and frustration. Most of the smokers feel that they will put on weight after quitting cigarette. They can work faster and better after a puff of cigarette. While smoking they can be more sociable. Smoking is also a way to celebrate on special occasions. Smokers feel that everything loses its charm without smoking. They are unable to enjoy social gathering, fun, games, drink, or even the company of their spouse. According to this data of smokers, smoking has so many great attributes.

However, one more data contradicts this data. In America, almost 33, 000, 000 Americans have quitted smoking and are leading a healthy life. A non-smoker would never be able to understand the great qualities of cigarette. However, the ex-smokers are well aware of these wonderful qualities. Still they have decided to quit. Are these 33, 000, 000 people mad?

These people are not mad, but they understood the disadvantages of smoking. They had also gone through the painful withdrawal symptoms of Nicotine. Still, they managed all the pain. They fought not only with the physical addiction, but also with the psychological addiction. The psychological addiction is a little tough, but they managed that too. They convinced themselves fully about the bad consequences of smoking. This demands a lot of firm determination from their side and a positive approach.

These smokers must be appreciated for coming out from this addiction. The earlier phase of quitting makes smoker a little insecure. However, you must have confidence on yourself that it is possible to live without cigarettes.

Once come out of the tight and dangerous grip of smoking. You will understand that you were on a wrong track. You were living in the world of misconceptions. After quitting smoking, they will realize that life without smoking is healthier, calmer and beautiful.

It depends on the ex-smoker, whether he/she wants to smoke again or not. Now, it demands a logical reasoning from you. However, many smokers again start smoking. The cause for their again taking up smoking is that they forgot the bad consequences of smoking. There is one more cause of taking up smoking again is the urge that they are unable to resist.

Therefore, all ex-smokers have two choices, either to quit it or to start smoking again. It is useless to be an occasional smoker, as it is also harming you a lot. Thus, make a promise of not letting even a little bit of Nicotine into your body.

Be my friend, stay smoke-free

Smoking is an addictive behaviour. Most smokers start smoking in their adolescence. Smoking causes about 5 million deaths worldwide every year. It's estimated that 1 in 2 smokers will die from tobacco related cause.

Peer pressure is one of the ways in which one is influenced to smoke, but peer pressure can also be one of the ways to encourage a smoke-free lifestyle. Therefore, if used positively, peer influence can be tapped to bring about positive results.

This year's National Smoking Control Campaign, is focusing on involving youths in promoting a smoke-free lifestyle. The objective of this competition is to encourage students to think of ways to encourage their peers to lead a smoke-free lifestyle. Although the theme of this year's campaign is "Be my friend, stay smoke-free" students can also think of ways to encourage others whom they have a close relationship with such as their family members of relatives to lead a smoke-free lifestyle.

Stop smoking

1. YOUTH STATISTICS

2. MALAYSIA SMOKING STATISTICS

Here are more smoking statistics from Malaysia:

*Every day about 50 teenagers below the age of 18 start smoking.
*Smoking is estimated to have caused more than half a million coronary events.
*Smoking rates are highest in rural Kelantan and lowest in urban Penang and Sarawak.
*Malaysia has been dubbed the "indirect advertising capital" of the world. Some of the tobacco
industry's most blatant efforts to target young people can be seen here.
*At least two tobacco companies were among the top 10 advertisers in recent years.

My advice: Smoking is a highly dangerous activity. You are not only putting your own health and future in danger, but you are also harming your loved ones. They breathe in your secondhand smokemore than anyone do. Think, before you satisfy your daily craving of nicotine.

Yuck! You put that in your mouth?!

Smoking affects these parts of your mouth:
A. Lips.

B. The floor of the mouth, under tongue.

C. The tongue.

D. The palate.

E. The root of the tongue.

Smoking causes oral cancer.
Smoking is dangerous for your teeth and gums. The teeth may fall out, as smoking can cause periodontal disease. Smoking delays the healing of wounds, and stains the teeth, gums and fillings. The worst consequence is the increased risk of mouth cancer.

Periodontal disease is a condition where the tissues that support the teeth - the gums and the bone - slowly deteriorate, and the teeth become loose and finally fall out. Anyone can suffer from periodontal disease, but smoking increases the risk. Heavy smokers are six times more likely to suffer from periodontal disease than non-smokers.

The risk of contracting periodontal disease depends on how much you smoke. If you smoke 30 cigarettes a day, you are six times more likely to contract periodontal disease than a non-smoker.

If you smoke 10 cigarettes a day or less, the risk is still three times higher than for a non-smoker.

If you smoke, the risk of contracting cancer of the mouth is four times higher than for a non-smoker.

Daniel radcliffe dubbed 'Harry Puffer' with smoking habit

Radcliffe, is reportedly smoking up to 20 cigarettes a day on the set of the next Harry Potter instalment, reports celebrity gossip websites including Showbizspy.com.

The hard word on Radcliffe, 18, comes as Hollywood movie star Patrick Swayze recently announced he was dying from pancreatic cancer and was globally shamed for being caught smoking in public with the disease.

A source said: “Daniel has recently been smoking up to 20 cigarettes a day.

“Every time they call ‘Cut’, he lights up.

“It’s disgusting.”

“Friends and co-stars including Rupert Grint have been warning him about the dangers of smoking.”

But he doesn’t seem to be taking any notice.

Close friends fear Daniel’s unhealthy habit could ruin his clean-cut image - and have now warned him not to be seen puffing in public.

“He’s been having late nights out with stars like Kevin Spacey and Stephen Fry and seems to have picked up bad habits from the luvvie set.”

Last week, a nervous Radcliffe turned to the cancer sticks when he had to perform a tricky stunt himself because his double was absent.

The source added to British newspaper The Sun: “He was sparking up constantly.”
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The effects and dangers of smoking

Immediate effects of smoking include:

One cigarette immediately raises your blood pressure and heart rate and decreases the blood

flow to body extremities.

Brain activity and the nervous system are stimulated for a short while and then reduced

A smoker may experience dizziness, nausea, watery eyes and acid in the stomach while or after smoking

Appetite and senses, such as taste and smell are distorted

Other effects of smoking include:

Shortness of breath

Persistent coughs

Yellow stains on fingers and teeth

Changes in appearances such as facial wrinkles and rubber-like skin

Bad smelling breath, clothes, hair, home, car, and everything around

Decreased sense of taste and smell

Weakened immune system compares to nonsmokers

Possible impotence in men

Women who smoke arss fertile than women who don't smoke

These three images illustrate the effects of smoking on the epithelial cells of the bronchi.
Image on the left shows normal healthy cells in contrast to the images on the right where the cells have become cancerous.

Smoking Increases Risks for:

• Respiratory infections such as pneumonia and chronic bronchitis
• Emphysema
• Heart attacks and coronary disease
• Cancers such as lung cancer, throat cancer, mouth cancer
• Stomach ulcers
• Peripheral vascular diseases

Other Dangers of Smoking:

• Smoking during pregnancy can adversely affect the health of the unborn child
• Second-hand smoking is as dangerous as the first-hand smoking
• Smoking in a room separate from children and others does not necessarily avoid second-hand smoking, because carcinogens can seep into furniture and walls

Smoking kills

Thanks I am not smoking, even not tryed.

Here is some cool flash site with cigarege researches, results.

I hate when people smoke near me. Or when you are walking in the town and some guy smokes before you and I must go another way longest one. Or when mother or father of little children smokes near his child. The best what they can do is get gun and shoot him, I think it is the same what they are doing.

PEOPLE PLEASE DON`T SMOKE.

Snuffing Out Smoking!

Why the world wants smoking bans
On any given day, 45 million adult smokers light up despite the known dangers of smoking cigarettes. Americans typically view smoking as an individual choice that needs to be respected just like the myriad of other harmful behaviors society tolerates. Nevertheless, there is strong societal pressure to curb the sale and use of cancer-causing tobacco products. This raises the question, should the government be able to regulate our unhealthy lifestyle choices? While other decisions of personal health may be left to the individual, in the case of smoking the government has made a popular case that “lighting up” affects others in a unique way. This fundamental argument has been playing out on the national stage in the politics of smoking bans.

The Science of Smoking
In the last twenty-five years, tobacco companies and anti-smoking non-profits alike have educated the general public on the dangers of smoking. Most people are aware that smoking on a regular basis is unhealthy, but popular beliefs about the effects of second-hand smoke are more varied, and for good reason: the public receives mixed information. According to Dr. Cheryl Healton, the CEO and president of the American Legacy Foundation, the parent company of The Truth campaign, about 50,000 Americans die each year due to excess cancer, heart attacks, asthma, low birth weight, and other problems caused by second-hand smoke. Most organizations against smoking regulation disagree. They claim the science behind statements like Healton’s is inconclusive. Many scientific organizations however, are confident in the results. In 2002, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, an arm of the World Health Organization, analyzed most published research concerning tobacco smoking and cancer. One correlation observed in the study was “a statistically significant and consistent association between lung cancer risk in spouses of smokers and exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke from the spouse who smokes.” Proponents of regulation have cited such evidence in calling for a ban against smoking in public places. In addition to sparing passersby from second-hand smoke, public smoking bans may aid smokers in their quest to quit. Dr. Eric Westman, a nicotine and smoking cessation researcher at Duke University, has helped people overcome nicotine addiction for fifteen years. He explains that smoking bans help people quit not only because they make smoking illegal in certain situations, but also because they increase the social stigma of smoking. An internal Phillip Morris document corroborates this observation, finding that individuals who face workplace smoking bans “consume 11 percent to 15 percent less than average and quit at a rate that is 84 percent higher than average.” Many countries have already instituted wide-ranging prohibitions on public smoking. Ireland, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Malta, Italy, and New Zealand have already established countrywide smoke-free laws. France and the United Kingdom are soon to enact their bans. In 2004, the small country of Bhutan went as far as to ban all tobacco sales. The United States, however, has typically been more skeptical of such legislation and currently only eleven U.S. states have bans on indoor public smoking, though many cities have enacted their own bans.

Saving Smokers from Themselves
While there are strong arguments for regulation of public smoking, consequences for the health of the individual are not necessarily enough to justify legislation. For instance, if bans or heavy regulation were applied to other health-related behaviors, such as overeating, many more people would claim that the government had overstepped its authority. Why is smoking any different? When asked this question, Dr. Healton replied, “obesity does not harm the health of others.” She alludes to a key aspect of bans: they typically only outlaw smoking in public arenas, where one’s decision to smoke inhibits another’s freedom to eschew second hand smoke. Take, for example, the newly-proposed city-wide bans on the use of trans-fats in restaurants, a type of lipid that has been linked to cancer. Trans-fat bans parallel smoking bans in that the government is intervening to curb the effect of the actions of others, whether an individual or a business, on citizens health. However, it is important to note that in these cases the government is only legislating in the public realm: individuals are free to eat what and how much they want, while similarly, smokers can smoke in private areas. The Future of Smoking Bans While it can and has been argued that bans on public smoking overextend the government’s power over the private lives of its citizens, strong scientific evidence support the conclusion that allowing individuals to smoke can violate the health of innocent bystanders. In an interview, Dr. Healton predicted, “the global trend will be greater restrictions on where one can smoke.” Across the world, this seems to be coming true, and with increasing regulation, the Marlboro man may soon be off the open plain, and resigned to smoke in the privacy of his own home.

Yeah i smoke

I've been smoking cigarettes for about two years now. Every day i say i'm gonna quit but i never do... everyday i go out and buy me a new pack of newports. That stuff is killing me but i love it... well mostly when i drink which is not often. when i have a pack i find myself smoking just because their there, and when i dont have them i'm on the move looking for them. I hate the smell of them, like when someone is smoking around me it stinks. I like this site... This is the 1st of many

Stop smoking in days! The little pills that could

"I think I can, I think I can. I know I can, I know I can."
I failed again.
But no more.

No longer will you have to recant the mantra from the little train that could. You can stop smoking, eliminate your cravings and lose the rebound effects commonly associated with smoking cessation, like weight gain and substitute vices.
How? The smoking cessation pill, Chantix.
I was speaking with one of the correctional officers who took the challenge as part of his new year’s resolution. What he had to report was amazing.
First, he stated that he had no cravings or desires to smoke by day 3. Secondly, he did not notice any new behaviors to replace his prior smoking habit. He had to think about what he would do to replace it, not that he’s doing anything now.
He states that the smell of cigarette smoke is revolting to him and he doesn’t think about smoking anymore.
Impressive!
With the price of brand name cigarettes in Michigan pushing 6 bucks a pack, Chantix could not have come on the scene at a better time. If you only smoked 1 pack per day, you would pay less than that for a month’s supply of Chantix. And what I am hearing from the field is that most stop smoking during that first 30 day supply.
Not so with Zyban. Most REDUCE their use of cigarettes and continue to smoke. I rarely have had a case of someone on Zyban that quit within 90 days, let alone 30 days.