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Tips to Quit Smoking Easily

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Smoking can be a very addictive habit. Often times than not, you wake up with the feeling that you must burn down a cigarette before starting your day. Depending on how deep you are into the habit, there are ways that can help you get out of it. These ways are not sudden and will therefore not shock your system. However, they do work and with time, effort and patience, you too can quit smoking with these crucial tips. 1. Taper Down The first thing you need to look at is the number of cigarettes you smoke each day. Take this number and work towards halving it over the course of a week or two. As you do this slowly and gradually, you will find the urge to smoke fading away. Soon, you will be able to smoke a quarter the number you used to smoke before and this is definitely a step towards the right direction. By reducing the number of joints or cigarettes you smoke, you will have overcome the first hurdle which is also the most difficult. 2. Find Replacement Habits Smoking is a ha

Nicotine withdrawal symptoms summary

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Nicotine withdrawal symptoms   Even when you're trying to quit the smoke, you may still notice some awful things happening in your body. But, I'm sure you'd rather deal with these nicotine withdrawal symptoms than carry on smoking and hurting yourself. Be acquainted with all the nicotine withdrawal symptoms and watch out for them. They may be bodily or psychological since both factors are affected while you were smoking. You do not need treatment for these nicotine withdrawal symptoms, but they are worthwhile to identify. Read on to learn more! Physical symptoms : Coughs If you are simply starting to quit, you may have noticed that you cough frequently. This is just the way that your lungs cope with the changes in your dependency. You don't need to panic. Coughs can lead to days, with mucus coming out now and then. You can take cough drops to alleviate your throat. Your Chest Will Tighten A week after stopping, you will observe that your chest feels ti

How smoking habit affects your relationship

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How smoking habit affects your relationship . Unfortunately smoking surely affects relationships.Smoking habits are considered to be heavily affected by family relationships.If you smoke it is not simply you suffer, your family health  also suffers. Your family members can be injured by inhaling secondhand smoke that has the mainstream smoke which you breath out and the side stream smoke which wafts from the cigarette.It can be four time as dangerous as mainstream smoke. Bedtime : If you was in a relationship with a one who did not smoke, you are moderate to heavy smoker. That guy would often report how difficult it was to hold you while you both were sleeping. Your hair smelled such as cigarettes. Taking a shower before going to the bed is the right solution for this problem.This will be overwhelming because most of the time you may arrive house exhausted and so you need to go the bed directly.Therefore you both wind up just not cuddling the night,that you both legitimatel

The complications of a job seeking smoker

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There is no doubt that smokers face difficulty in landing a job. When they manage to get it, they struggle to keep it. More often than not, employers would eliminate a prospective employee if such an employee indicates a smoking habit. This is because, employers try to limit their liabilities as much as possible. It is a known fact that smokers are liable to die young, most employers try to keep themselves out of this mess. On the other hand, if a smoker manages to pass medical tests and is recruited for a job, they usually have trouble keeping the job. Smoking is an habit that smokers can beat, they tend to indulge themselves at the slightest lunch break. A smoker is most likely going to develop problems with a non-smoker fellow employee. This is because smoking is an habit that stinks and smokers have this foul odor hanging around them all the time. In no time a smoker would start having issues in every department in the organization. Non-smokers most often than not detest smoker

What Happens To Smokers Lungs

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Smokers lungs X-Ray.  Are You An Addict of Smoking? You Will Quit Smoking If You Read What Happens To Smokers Lungs. In the United States, smoking has become the leading cause of preventable illness and death. In fact, more than 480,000 people die from smoking every year in the country. Smoking can cause structural and functional abnormalities in your lungs. Now, are you an addict of smoking? Here is the truth about smokers lungs. As we all know, smokers inhale in a great number of impurities contained in cigarette smoke. These impurities settle in your lungs, making the lungs turn the color to grey-black. Moreover, smoking is known to cause (COPD) Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. This condition makes the respiratory passages of your lungs to swell and become irritated, thereby increasing the production of mucus that damages the lungs. According to statistics, more than 80% cases of lung cancer are because of smoking. Besides, the common form of cancer caused by smo

What Are The Risks Of Pregnancy And Cigarette Smoking?

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There are certainly some serious dangers in regards to smoking cigarettes and pregnancy that you should be made aware of if you aren't already. This is exactly why I want to take time now to share with you the details regarding these dangers in this post, so as to fully understand what exactly you are doing if you happen to smoke, and you are pregnant as well. So please read on and know about the dangers and hopefully it will be sufficient to get you to give up forever. The very first threat that you need to recognize is that the well being of your kids is certainly at risk. Studies show that ladies who smoked during pregnancy will potentially have children that grow up to have attention deficit disorder and conduct disorder. This is really scary because you obviously do not wish your children to have a hard time paying attention, and you don't wish them to be a discipline case as well mainly because it's going to be very hard for them in school. This is certainly not b

Is Vaping the Answer To Quit Smoking?

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Many questions are lingering in many smokers mind especially with the entry of e-cigarette. Many smokers who are trying to stop smoking are turning to vaping to seek to kick off the smoking habit. Controversy is brewing all over regarding the effectiveness of the e-cigarette. Let us look at the pros and cons of vaping. Pros 1. Exposure to Tobacco is minimized. For non-smokers, the tobacco exposure poses a health risk more than to even smokers. With the use of vaping, that risk is reduced drastically by the vaporizers present in the e-cigarette. 2. Tobacco Smell is Almost Not in Existence. Tobacco smell is a thorn in the flesh, and it is constant with the smoker and the smoking environment. The smell makes many smokers make a lot of effort in minimizing it by use of perfumes and mints. The e-cigarette has a vaporizer that makes the e-cigarette odorless and colorless. 3 . Variety of flavors. The e-cigarette has a vast array of flavors to choose from to satisf

How To Deal With Teen Smoking

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Teen smoking is a growing problem worldwide and affects the growth and development of your child before it is complete. The government is doing a lot to stop teen smoking through smoking information education, but the parent should prevent their children from this behavior. Teens emulate their parent, and as you sit down and smoke in the presence of your child, at one point or another, he or she will start smoking. The main reason for teen smoking is because they admire other people smoking. This article will enlighten you on how you can prevent teen smoking and some of the effect you child is likely to experience. Teen smoking is very dangerous and addictive making it very hard to quit and as a result of smoking, your child is liable to face the following: • Teen smoking leads to various disease like stroke, heart diseases, respiratory problems and heart attack.  Teen smokers are greatly addicted compared to the adults and these increases the risk of lung cancer twelve t

Main Reasons Why Teens Start Smoking

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Everyday, 3,000 youth smoke their first cigarette, and some of those youth become addicted to cigarettes for their whole life. Teen smoking is increasingly becoming a big problem, and it doesn't look like it is a problem that will ever be solved, even if tobacco products were to become illegal. What makes a teenager start smoking in the first place? A teenager can engage in smoking because they see an older sibling, who they look up to, smoking. After all, if the person they have been looking up to for many years is doing it, then it's perfectly okay, right? Even if they know that smoking cigarettes is bad, it makes it okay. If they are around that particular sibling often, they will be even more likely to smoke as well because they are around it a lot. Another top reason for smoking amongst youth is rebellion. When a person is making the transition from child to pre-teen or teenager, they are experiencing many physical and psychological changes. They are learning to be

Smoking and ED - Another Reason to Stop Smoking Now

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Smoking and Erectile Dysfunction (ED) - Another Reason to Stop Smoking Now . The media has been filled with commercials for Viagra and different pharmaceuticals for erectile dysfunction or ED; however these shrewd promotions disregard to tell everybody that this therapeutic condition comprises of more than simply the failure to get and keep up an erection. For men who smoke cigarettes, the ED can likewise be an indication of vascular infection and the sign that a heart attack is coming not long from now. It is broadly known the impacts of smoking have on the body to actuate different diseases, for example, heart illness and cancer. Men who experience erectile dysfunction between the ages of 40 to 49 are at double risk for heart illness. Furthermore, if you are a man who smokes, your danger is significantly higher for developing ED. The failure to acquire and keep up an erection is the meaning of erectile dysfunction. While this issue can be created by numerous things, it is by

Second Hand Smoke Kills Your Family

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What are the dangers of second hand smoke ? Well, the answer is quite simple and also shocking: You are smoking, even if you didn't touch a cigarette in your entire life. And often people won't believe it. Especially parents who smoke at home. But it's true. If you are in a room with somebody and you are breathing in smoke, this is what happens: The irritation goes straight into your lungs and builds tar in your airways. It goes directly into your bloodstream and causes 50% decrease of size in your arteries, which means that the oxygen supply decreases by 50% as well. Within ten seconds that smoke hits your brain and although you might feel a little dizzy, you are getting the same effect with the release of dopamine which is a substance that promotes addiction. If you feel a little less focused or feel a little dizzy when you are around smokers, there is a high probability that you are experiencing the effects of second hand smoking.  Some statistical facts Tobacco i

Kill Smoking Before Smoking Kills You!

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Smoking is a slow process of suicide and it is also known as a silent killer. Everybody wants to spend a healthy and happy life among the loved ones but smoking comes in the way and destroys all the plans of happiness and health. If you see the data of many countries, you will see that a large number of people die due to the lung cancer or other smoke related diseases and this number is increasing every day. Today smoking has become a social need or a status symbol and people smoke just for fun. The media is playing a very important role in increasing nicotine usage among teens. The fun smoking that starts in the teen age goes into the adult age as a powerful habit and addiction. The roots to the teen age problem usually lie in your past and can be corrected by using hypnotherapy. Smoking is especially a killer for people with family history of asthma because smoking can trigger their asthma genes anytime and can make them vulnerable to various other breathing disorders. Lung can

Smoking Kills-A More Realistic Look on the Effects of Smoking

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Every smoker knows that cigarettes are bad for them – but that does not really convince them to stop smoking. This is why it is really important to drive the point across and give smokers a realistic reason as to how smoking destroys their health and what kind of benefit they could get should they decide to stop now. How Many People Die from Smoking? It is estimated that 480,000 people die from smoking each year in the United States – that’s roughly half a million or 1 in 5 deaths. Smoking is actually a more prolific killer than illegal drugs, alcohol use, and motor vehicle accidents put together. Those numbers don’t include second-hand smokers. That’s defined as people who, although don’t smoke themselves, are constantly exposed to the smoke belted out of cigarette smokers. Studies show that even secondhand smoke can be damaging to a person’s health, especially for children and pregnant women. More info here. Health Risks of Smoking  1. Cardiovascular Problems Those