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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

Smoking kills almost a million in India per year

“Smoking is harmful to Health” - This is a statutory warning printed on all cigarette packets. Yet the question arises as to how many people pay heed to this warning. Statistics will reveal a very small number. Majority knowingly jump in the fire or continue to smoke, risking even the lives of those around them, due to passive smoking.

A recent research has revealed that smoking kills almost a million people in India per year. More so the high smoking risk among Indians was a surprise when actually Indians start smoking at a later age and even smoke less than their European and American counterparts.

Also smoking results in most Indians dying from Tuberculosis rather than cancer as Indians prefer Beedis, that are traditionally leaf wrapped and hand rolled rather than manufactured brand filters. And since most of them never quit till death, the risk just doubles.

The study also revealed that almost 120 million people smoke in India, majority being men. Due to smoking most men in India get infected with asymptomatic tuberculosis - that is, smoking damages the lungs to such an extent that the latent infection cannot be sustained, eventually leading to death.

Illiteracy is one of the evil causes of smoking, for half of the Indian smokers are illiterate and barely 2% quit smoking in their lives. For the other half literate people who continue to smoke in spite of being aware of the dangers involved, the Indian health authorities are rooting for tobacco companies to print images of diseases that are tobacco related. But politicians want to save their vote banks in the name of protecting jobs of tobacco workers.

The research which was recently published was based on a study of the smoking history of 74,000 Indian who had recently died and 78,000 Indians living.
Well research or no research, smoking is injurious to health - is a known fact. And yet people continue to...smoke!

Smoking accessories

paper : Very thin sheet of paper that is wrapped around the tobacco.

tobacco: Product made from the dried leaves of a nicotine-rich plant; the leaves are treated and made into cigars or cigarettes for smoking.

seam : Line along which the cigarette paper is sealed.

filter tip: Tip at the mouth end for capturing some of the smoke’s toxic substances.

ashtray: Receptacle into which smokers empty their pipe or leave the remains of their cigar or cigarette.

ash: Residue left from burned tobacco.

butt: Unburned portion of a cigar or cigarette.

Stop Smoking Hypnotherapy

Stop Smoking with hypnotherapy- no nicotine patches, no gum and absolutely no withdrawal symptoms required!So what if it really is that easy? What if all your beliefs about how hard it's going to be to stop smoking are completely false? What if, after just one stop smoking hypnotherapy session, you can easily become and remain a happy, confident and relaxed non-smoker?Through Hypnotherapy I help your unconscious mind to disregard those old false beliefs about smoking and swap them for beliefs and habits that are altogether more relaxing and far more fulfilling. So as a result, the all too familiar withdrawal pangs of irritability, mood swings and cravings, the primary reasons why people fail to permanently quit smoking, are replaced with a feeling of well being and confidence, with you always in control.

It's easy to stop smoking!

It has been around 18 months since I gave up smoking and every time I meeta smoker they always ask how I did it. I have to say it took me threetimes before I eventually gave up for good.
There were lots of different factors that led me to even start thinking aboutgiving up; however the main one was my own health. Other reasons includedmy children, they kept telling me I was going to die and got quite distressedabout it; the smell in the house; the smell on my clothes; feeling like a leperwhen going outside to smoke. There are a million reasons to give up andonly one reason to continue and that is addiction.

I used to tell myself I could give up if I really wanted to but I didn’twant to. The truth is I did want to but felt it would be too hardand I didn’t want to fail, so it was easier to say I enjoyed it too much. Ienjoyed the supposed feeling it gave me after dinner, with a cup of tea, whilsthaving a drink etc. However when I realised it was me who was creatingthis feeling and not the cigarettes things started to change in my way of thinking.
I began telling myself it was easy to give up smoking and after about 2 monthsI gave up for good and haven’t looked back since. I worked on mybelief system about giving up smoking and convinced myself it was going tobe easy and when the time came it was easy.

My tips for giving up smoking would be:

• Give yourself compelling reasons to give up, don’t do it for otherpeople, and do it for yourself.
  
• Set a date about 2 months in advance of when you will give up and tellyourself every day you are going to give up on that day.
  
• Don’t try patches or gum with nicotine in it. Once youtold yourself for two months when you will give up just give up
  
• Tell yourself every day it is easy to give up smoking; your brain willreally start to believe it after a month or so.
  
• Tell your friends and family you will be giving up on ‘that date’,this gives you a little pressure and shows your friends and family you arecommitted.
  
• Break the old patterns of behaviour surrounding your smoking e.g. if yousmoked after your dinner at night, go for a walk instead or go clean thebathroom. Pretty soon your mind will get out of the old habit and startforming new habits.

It is easy to give up smoking, however we have been conditioned to believethe opposite is the case. Our mind will believe whatever we tell it tobelieve and adjust our physiology and cravings accordingly. When youtell yourself it is easy to give up smoking for two months, it will be veryeasy on the day to give up, you have to believe it.

Smoking and mouth cancer

New research in the UK has revealed that smokers are unconcerned with the effect of their habit on the oral cavity. In particular they seemed to be aware of the damage // that smoking caused to the tongue or jaw or the lip and even the teeth, but were strangely reluctant to change their habits. This is of particular concern to the oral and maxillofacial surgeons, who are launching a massive awareness campaign as a part of the Mouth Cancer Awareness Week. Surgeons will visit schools and educate adolescents about the effects of smoking on the mouth and in particular its relation to oral cancer. “Smoking among adolescents is rising. Kids want graphic images and powerful images, they like to know that if they do this we will get that,” said Iain Hutchison, a maxillo facial surgeon based at Barts and the Royal London, Hospital and a member of Saving Faces, the Facial Surgery Research Foundation. “We know it is much more difficult to quit smoking than to never start, so this is the place to start making sure these children don’t ever smoke.” He says that children are very impressed with the graphic images and go home and tell their parents about it. “By educating the kids we are also educating their parents about smoking and mouth cancer,” Hutchinson points out. It is estimated that about 4,300 new cases of oral cancer occur in the UK every year and a majority of them are linked to smoking. Research conducted by dental plan provider Denplan shows that smoking and drinking increases the risk of oral cancer by 30 times “Symptoms of mouth cancer vary widely in look and feel, making early self-detection difficult. That’s why regular visits to the dentist remain crucial for detecting the disease because dentists are trained to spot the signs,” said Dental advisor Dr Henr Clover.