Most Smokers Want To Quit Smoking

A new report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that the majority of smokers want to quit smoking. The study was reported in an article on Medicine Net Daily: “Despite the known dangers of smoking, about 20% of Americans still light up, but almost 70% want to quit, a new [...]

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Quitting Smoking and Brain Stimulation

Quitting smoking can be a real ordeal for many smokers. I know when I quit, it took me three tries before I was finally successful. The first two times I tried to quit, I spent many weeks struggling with cravings and nicotine withdrawal. Eventually, I caved in to the cravings, and began smoking again. Knowing [...]

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Quitting Smoking Is Best Treatment for Smoker’s Cough

A study reported on MedicineNet’s website says that smoking has a similar effect on the lungs as cystic fibrosis. “Smoking seems to have a similar effect on the lungs as cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic disease affecting the lungs and other organs, a new study reveals. Researchers found that like cystic fibrosis, smoking leads to [...]

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More Heart Attack Complications for Women Who Smoke

I published a post back in August that talked about how women who smoke have a greater risk of having a heart attack than men who smoke. (You can read that post here: Heart Disease Risk.) I just came across an article that says that women who smoke also face a greater risk of heart [...]

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Should Government Pay People to Quit Smoking?

I recently found an article which made a radical suggestion, that the government could save money by paying Medicare recipients to quit smoking. “Last month, President Obama proposed cutting almost $72 billion from Medicaid, the program that provides health care to America’s poor. Such deep reductions are necessary, he declared, to bring down our staggering [...]

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