Do you know that Smoking ban may expand to vehicles? Check out video below.
Monday, April 27, 2009
'3rd-Hand Smoke' Poses Risk To Infants, Doctors Say
The researchers surveyed 1,500 U.S. households to learn about parents' attitudes toward third-hand smoke. They found 65 per cent of non-smokers and 43 per cent of smokers surveyed agreed that third-hand smoke can harm the health of children.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
The Smoking Scourage
When you carefully investigate the whole subject and study the facts and statistics available, you can come to but one conclusion: Smoking is deadly! It is a menace to health!
Cigarette smoking not only causes lung cancer, but has been implicated in chronic bronchitis, emphysema, heart disease, cardiovascular ailments. Tobacco can damage the nervous system, causing progressive blindness(a condition called tobacco amblyopia), and seems to be partially responsible for a loss of sexual vigor. Among women, frigidity can be due to smoking. Several studies and reports have indicated a greater incidence of frigidity, sterility, menstrual disturbance and miscarriage among smoking women.
Dr. Virginia Apgar(director of research for the National Foundation of the March of Dimes) declared : "There are more than a dozen medical reports on heavy smoking and its effect on the baby. It has been found that these babies are smaller than average for the length of the pregnancy - about a half pound smaller. Babies that weigh 51/2 pounds or less at birth have at least twice as high an incidence of birth defects.
Do you want your child to be born defective, smaller, retarded physically or possibly even mentally, because you craved a cigarette? What about it? If you don't care about your own life, think about the life of your unborn child, if you are an expectant mother! In physical fitness training for instructors of the British Army, it was found that in the 3-mile race an average of 3 times as many nonsmokers were among the first ten to finish the race and 3 times as many smokers among the last ten.
Smoking is incompatible with physical endurance, muscular power and aptitude to face certain emergencies requiring physical effort. but little known to many people is the effect of smoking on the mind. Two thousand experiments were held testing the effect of smoking on mental responses. It was found that in all cases smoking lowered mental efficiency from 10 to 23 percent.
Cigarette smoking not only causes lung cancer, but has been implicated in chronic bronchitis, emphysema, heart disease, cardiovascular ailments. Tobacco can damage the nervous system, causing progressive blindness(a condition called tobacco amblyopia), and seems to be partially responsible for a loss of sexual vigor. Among women, frigidity can be due to smoking. Several studies and reports have indicated a greater incidence of frigidity, sterility, menstrual disturbance and miscarriage among smoking women.
Dr. Virginia Apgar(director of research for the National Foundation of the March of Dimes) declared : "There are more than a dozen medical reports on heavy smoking and its effect on the baby. It has been found that these babies are smaller than average for the length of the pregnancy - about a half pound smaller. Babies that weigh 51/2 pounds or less at birth have at least twice as high an incidence of birth defects.
Do you want your child to be born defective, smaller, retarded physically or possibly even mentally, because you craved a cigarette? What about it? If you don't care about your own life, think about the life of your unborn child, if you are an expectant mother! In physical fitness training for instructors of the British Army, it was found that in the 3-mile race an average of 3 times as many nonsmokers were among the first ten to finish the race and 3 times as many smokers among the last ten.
Smoking is incompatible with physical endurance, muscular power and aptitude to face certain emergencies requiring physical effort. but little known to many people is the effect of smoking on the mind. Two thousand experiments were held testing the effect of smoking on mental responses. It was found that in all cases smoking lowered mental efficiency from 10 to 23 percent.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Quit Smoking - Hilarious Commercial!
This is a funny Commercial video I found on YouTube about how to quit smoking. Check it out.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
You Can QUIT Smoking - Here's How! (Last Part )
The Help You Need
If you smoke and really want to overcome the habit, then study this post carefully. Absorb its message. Let its meaning sink in deeply. Scrutinize the pictures which graphically portray the effects of smoking. Take it seriously! Don't try to shrug it off, or justify your problem. Admit the truth and determine to change! Remember - it is you life!
Your life is your own. It is up to you whether to stop smoking or to continue puffing the lethal weed. What decisions are you going to make, knowing that it will affect your health and possibly the health of your children. Whatever decision you make, you must live with it or possibly die with it. I earnestly hope that you make the right decision!
If you smoke and really want to overcome the habit, then study this post carefully. Absorb its message. Let its meaning sink in deeply. Scrutinize the pictures which graphically portray the effects of smoking. Take it seriously! Don't try to shrug it off, or justify your problem. Admit the truth and determine to change! Remember - it is you life!
Your life is your own. It is up to you whether to stop smoking or to continue puffing the lethal weed. What decisions are you going to make, knowing that it will affect your health and possibly the health of your children. Whatever decision you make, you must live with it or possibly die with it. I earnestly hope that you make the right decision!
Sunday, April 5, 2009
You Can QUIT Smoking - Here's How! (Part 6)
Stop Completely!
Some have found that deep breathing and exercise helps overcome smoking, by getting the mind off the temptation and onto something more worthwhile. The basic key to remember however is simply this: When you quit, quit completely! Stop all smoking. Use the "cold turkey" method. Tapering off almost never works!
The "tapering off method" only spreads the agony of withdrawal over a long period of time. As one man put it, "Tapering down is about as humane as cutting a dog's tail off by inches so it won't hurt so much." Some few may quit smoking successfully by "tapering off." This method is not recommended anyway. It is too risky and doesn't work for most people!
Some have found that deep breathing and exercise helps overcome smoking, by getting the mind off the temptation and onto something more worthwhile. The basic key to remember however is simply this: When you quit, quit completely! Stop all smoking. Use the "cold turkey" method. Tapering off almost never works!
The "tapering off method" only spreads the agony of withdrawal over a long period of time. As one man put it, "Tapering down is about as humane as cutting a dog's tail off by inches so it won't hurt so much." Some few may quit smoking successfully by "tapering off." This method is not recommended anyway. It is too risky and doesn't work for most people!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
You Can QUIT Smoking - Here's How! (Part 5)
Plan Out Your Strategy - Avoid Temptation
Realize before you begin that giving up cigarettes maybe a major project, for you. Depending on the extent of your habit, it may require firmness of determination and tremendous personal effort. But the reward is certainly worth it.
Therefore, face up to the fact that at first, when you quit, there will probably be more nervousness, tension and a craving for tobacco. Face the fact that smoking has had a deathlike hold on you and to overcome it will take time, effort and a certain amount of suffering. But realize that you can do it! And the final result is worth it for you!! Always keep your goal in mind. Never let it grow hazy, or disappear from your view. Keep your eyes on the goal!
When do you usually smoke? Face these particular times of temptation by avoiding them as much as possible. Don't foolishly put yourself in a situation when you might compromise with your goal, where friends or relatives might persuade you to give in "just once". Chances are, if you do you will be hooked once again, right back where you started! So don't take a chance on it. It may be tough sledding for a while, but with help there is no doubt. You can do it!
You must realize from the start that one of the hurdles you must cope with is our smoking society - your environment. Cigarettes are advertised everywhere and your friends and relatives probably smoke. Prepare your mind to face this difficulty squarely. Don't give up to outside pressures. Determine within yourself that nothing (yes nothing!) will deter you from the path you have set! As you proceed, you might reinforce your behavior by giving yourself little rewards along the way. This might help make the pathway somewhat easier for you.
Also, smoking substitutes (fruit, raisins, chewing gum or such things) might help you a little and get your mind off cigarettes. Fruit would be a good substitute. These things however, do not take the place of your own willpower and sheer personal motivation to overcome smoking. They are merely stop-gap measures which may provide a little help along the way.
Realize before you begin that giving up cigarettes maybe a major project, for you. Depending on the extent of your habit, it may require firmness of determination and tremendous personal effort. But the reward is certainly worth it.
Therefore, face up to the fact that at first, when you quit, there will probably be more nervousness, tension and a craving for tobacco. Face the fact that smoking has had a deathlike hold on you and to overcome it will take time, effort and a certain amount of suffering. But realize that you can do it! And the final result is worth it for you!! Always keep your goal in mind. Never let it grow hazy, or disappear from your view. Keep your eyes on the goal!
When do you usually smoke? Face these particular times of temptation by avoiding them as much as possible. Don't foolishly put yourself in a situation when you might compromise with your goal, where friends or relatives might persuade you to give in "just once". Chances are, if you do you will be hooked once again, right back where you started! So don't take a chance on it. It may be tough sledding for a while, but with help there is no doubt. You can do it!
You must realize from the start that one of the hurdles you must cope with is our smoking society - your environment. Cigarettes are advertised everywhere and your friends and relatives probably smoke. Prepare your mind to face this difficulty squarely. Don't give up to outside pressures. Determine within yourself that nothing (yes nothing!) will deter you from the path you have set! As you proceed, you might reinforce your behavior by giving yourself little rewards along the way. This might help make the pathway somewhat easier for you.
Also, smoking substitutes (fruit, raisins, chewing gum or such things) might help you a little and get your mind off cigarettes. Fruit would be a good substitute. These things however, do not take the place of your own willpower and sheer personal motivation to overcome smoking. They are merely stop-gap measures which may provide a little help along the way.
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