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Cigarette Smoking and Weight Loss
Most people realize that cigarette smoking accelerates weight loss particularly in the elderly. But did you know that prolonged cigarette smoking could also cause weight gain.
This is because there is a substantial amount of sugar in each cigarette that you smoke. Each time you take a puff, the sugar in the cigarette is sped [...]
Quit Smoking by First Planning to Quit
Many experts believe smoking is only about 10% physical addiction and a whopping 90% psychological addiction. Your body will recover fairly quickly from nicotine withdrawals (the worst symptoms usually stop in three days or less), but your psychological dependency on cigarettes can be much more difficult to defeat.
One way to combat this is to [...]
Some Of The Health Risks From Smoking
Scientific evidence of the health risks posed by smoking go back to the 1950s. Figures from the US government show that 28% of males 18 years old and above and 23% of females in the same age bracket were into the habit in the mid-1990s. The percentages were even higher in 1964, when the US [...]
Some Reasons Why It Is Difficult To Stop Smoking
There are many reasons that it is difficult to quit smoking and the severity of each of these varies with each person.
Foremost, this is because most smokers become addicted to the nicotine contained in tobacco products. Nicotine has a deadly addictive power. How? When a person puffs a cigarette, nicotine particles find their way [...]
Some Health Risks Created By Your Smoking Habit
By smoking, you are putting yourself at several health risks. Cigarettes contain several different toxins and chemicals that move throughout your body, leading to different types of problems. These vary from mild problems to severe health risks that may even lead to death. Following, are six of several health risks that are [...]
An Introduction To Cigar Smoking
Currently cigars are produced in several different countries, including Cuba, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Brazil, and the Philippines. Cuban cigars, while illegal in the United States since the embargo of 1962 by President Kennedy, are considered to be the world’s finest. The quality of cigars from other countries has improved dramatically in recent [...]