Category Archives: Smoking Cessation
Smoking Celebrities
The life of celebrities is all about their looks. They have to make impression on people or they are not going to be famous. In the beginning of last century smoking was a part of good look: it was a habit of rich and famous, so many picked it up. Times changed, cigarettes do not make impression on people, but … Continue reading
Rohit Bal unveils anti tobacco monogram
Fashion designer, Rohit Bal unveiled a mega metallic ashtray that has been accepted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as the monogram for its anti-tobacco campaign in New Delhi on Monday. A teenaged student, Akshat Pabuwal, of XII standard from Rajasthan has designed this monogram. It took about two months to design and make this ashtray. The ashtray made of … Continue reading
How to Quit Smoking Easily by Controlling Mental and Physical Addiction
Quitting smoking is somewhat complicated that most quitters will fail early in their attempts to become non-smokers. Although there are many things or factors you have to consider when you are quitting, we could categorize these factors in to two main categories – physical addiction and mental addiction. Once you know the intricacies of these two you will soon realize … Continue reading
“Stop Smoking” Ads That Target Emotions Seem to Work Best
Television ads that encourage people to quit smoking are most effective when they use a “why to quit” strategy that includes either graphic images or personal testimonials, a new study suggests. The three most common broad themes used in smoking cessation campaigns are why to quit, how to quit and anti-tobacco industry, according to scientists at RTI International, a research … Continue reading
Effects Of Yakima Losing Anti-Smoking Programs
Yakima’s most successful anti-smoking programs were axed by the state last week. Everything from programs preventing kids from starting the habit, to classes to help people quit smoking are gone. The Valley has seen a dramatic decline in smokers, but Action News discovered this could be the move that turns that positive trend around. Right now Yakima County is considered … Continue reading
Quitting smoking boosts health of babies
In the largest study of its kind, researchers led by Professor Nick Macklon, a consultant gynaecologist at the Complete Fertility Centre at the Princess Anne Hospital in Southampton, in England, studied the outcomes of 50,000 pregnancies. They found that women who gave up smoking at the time of conception or when their pregnancy was confirmed gave birth to babies with … Continue reading
Heart risk in anti-smoking drug seen
The popular anti-smoking drug Chantix increases the risk for a heart attack or other heart problems in healthy, middle-aged smokers, a U.S. researcher says. Dr. Sonal Singh of Johns Hopkins, the lead author of a new study, says warnings on the drug should be stronger than those currently required by the Food and Drug Administration, The Baltimore Sun reported Monday. … Continue reading
Quit Smoking – Declare Your Independence from Nicotine Addiction
When Will You Acquire Your Independence No one was born a slave, no one was born in cuffs and chains and absolutely, no one was born a nicotine addict. You were born a freeman not an addict to nicotine. But because of curiosity, peer pressure, marketing influence or whatever reasons why you were hooked to this addiction and habit, you … Continue reading
Want to quit smoking? Try text message support
A study of almost 6,000 people trying to quit smoking cigarettes finds that those who receive regular motivational text messages are twice as likely to quit than those who receive neutral text messages thanking them for participating in the study. The txt2stop trial, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, measured cotinine (a chemical in tobacco) levels … Continue reading
Gruesome pictures can get the US to quit smoking
For the first time in 25 years the FDA is bringing in new health warnings for cigarettes. The nine pictures that must appear on all adverts and cigarette packages sold in the US by September 2011 include a cancerous mouth with lesions and rotting teeth, a man smoking through a tracheotomy hole and a diseased lung. When choosing the pictures, … Continue reading
