Whether you smoke cigarettes or chew tobacco, you are ingesting a powerfully addictive drug known as nicotine. In fact, smoking pipes and cigars is just as habit-forming as smoking cigarettes. While some people insist that they are not addicted to tobacco, the simple fact is that ingesting any form of tobacco for a certain period of time can cause a variety of negative health effects. Chemicals in... Read more >
Nicotine, an organic liquid comprised of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and sometimes oxygen, is a compound that occurs naturally in the tobacco plant. The medical community has deemed nicotine a drug due to its addictive properties, as well as its negative effects on the body. Although the amount of nicotine a given tobacco product contains will vary from product to product, on average, a cigarette tends to include... Read more >
Tobacco products, especially cigarettes, contain a number of chemicals and toxic substances that can seriously and permanently damage one's health. For example, while tobacco naturally contains the addictive drug nicotine, it also emits tar and carbon monoxide as byproducts. This section takes a closer look at what tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide are in order to expose the negative health effects associated with... Read more >
Regardless of why you started smoking, there are an infinite number of reasons why you should quit. Most people who are considering quitting smoking tend to be worried about developing any number of the widely known, serious health complications it causes, including: emphysema heart attack heart disease hypertension lung, mouth and/or throat cancer stroke. Along with these are a number of other... Read more >
Most people know that the effects of tobacco can be damaging to your health and that you can get lung cancer from smoking. However, many people don't realize all of the other negative effects tobacco can have on the health. Tobacco causes approximately one out of every five deaths in the United States each year and is the number one preventable cause of death. In addition to lung cancer, tobacco use... Read more >
Quitting smoking cold turkey, meaning quitting smoking without the use of medications such as nicotine patches or nicotine gum, can be quite a challenge. People need will power and the support of family and friends in order to stop smoking cold turkey. Additionally, certain tricks, habits and aids can help people to quit smoking cold turkey. In this section, we'll cover all aspects of quitting... Read more >
As quitting smoking can be a difficult process, many people turn to medication to help stop smoking. There are a number of stop-smoking pills, patches, chewing gums and other aids on the market to help smokers quit. There is even a quit-smoking shot available to smokers from their doctors. Some medications to help stop smoking include nicotine to help people deal with symptoms of withdrawal, while others... Read more >
Many people who are looking to quit smoking turn to nicotine replacement therapy. Nicotine replacement therapy uses aids, including nicotine patches, nicotine replacement gum and nicotine lozenges, to help reduce nicotine withdrawal and cravings. The goal behind nicotine replacement therapy is to slowly wean a person's body off of nicotine and eventually completely eliminate a person's dependence on nicotine... Read more >
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