Posts Tagged ‘smoking’


Kids with Asthma and Parents Who Smoke

Well, the obvious option for parents of kids with asthma who also happen to smoke, is for them to quit smoking to provide that safest, most clean-air environment for their child. However, that’s not always a reality, and parents of children with asthma may not be able to quit smoking or maybe they just don’t [...]

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Why Is It So Hard for Cancer Survivors to Quit Smoking?

It is a well known fact that cigarette smoking dramatically increases your risks of several types of cancer. It’s easy for us all to take on the mentality that we are indestructable and the rules don’t apply to us. In fact, that is probably a big human weakness, not realizing that we are all truly [...]

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Smoking and Prostate Cancer

In news that chalks up yet another reason you should immediately quit smoking if you still indulge in the habit, there is a lot of evidence that prostate cancer, one of the most common cancers in men, is a lot more agressive in smokers vs. non smokers. This really isn’t surprising when you consider that [...]

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Grotesque Cigarette Labels Make You Wanna Quit?

The grotesque ads and warning labels that are now on cigarettes, as forced by the FDA since there are a variety of groups that are totally against cigarettes and want them basically outlawed in the US, are starting to wear down some of the die hard smokers out there who say they’ll never quit. Apparently, [...]

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Afraid of Gaining Weight After Quitting Smoking?

I remember, back when I was a smoker, one of the most common excuses that people had (including myself, I was in my twenties and still very conscious of my appearance, especially my weight), for not quitting smoking was that they did not want to gain weight. The correlation between smoking cessation and weight gain [...]

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