Quiz: Assess your smoking habit What situations, places, and moods influence you when you reach for a cigarette? Take this assessment and learn about your personal smoking habit—it can help you develop more effective strategies for quitting. Dangers of secondhand smoke Secondhand tobacco smoke contains over 4,700 chemical compounds. More than 200 of these are known poisons. Read more here. Seven sizzling ways to stop smoking Quitting smoking may be one of the most daunting challenges you will ever face. Here are some tips to help you break this physical and psychological addiction.
Tips to help you stop smoking
Cigarette smoking is the single most preventable cause of death in the United States. If you have thought about quitting but haven’t been able to, here are some reasons why you should and some ways to do it. | | Smoking cessation drugs: bupropion Bupropion is an antidepressant, but it is also prescribed to help people quit smoking. Find out if this medication, in combination with a nicotine replacement product, could be an option for you.
Is youth smoking linked to television?
The hours your children spend in front of the television can't possibly be bad for them, right? Perhaps it can, says a new study from the journal
Pediatrics, which found a link between the amount of television children watched and likelihood of taking up smoking.
Oxygen therapy Smoking can cause lung diseases, which impair lung function and reduce the amount of oxygen that is transferred in the blood. Oxygen therapy is a treatment to deliver supplemental oxygen. |
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