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Surgery, whether elective or required is something many will face at some point in their lives. Surgery is complicated and can have many side effects. Often the consent forms are numerous pages listing everything which could go wrong. Surgery is complicated enough without the added risks of smoking.

The health risks after quitting are the things an ex-smoker has to be aware of once they are off the habit of smoking. The use of tobacco has put them at risk for diseases like cancer even if they have quit. If you have health care providers, you should let them know of your history [...]

I have battled nicotine addiction for twelve years. The withdrawals are horrible, but i have found some easy, free coping solutions to fellow smokers who refuse to cop out $6.48 for a pack of smokes no longer. The worst is the cravings without a doubt. I find that you have to distract yourself every time [...]

Every smoker has a few friends that like to constantly remind them about how bad smoking is, how much it costs them, and all kinds of other garb that is really annoying and, frankly, ineffective. The only person that can help you quit is yourself, and here’s why. When other people tell you that you [...]

Your want to smoke isn’t caused by the decrease of nicotine levels in your blood, despite what many people want you to believe. It’s because your mind is trained to desire cigarettes at various points during the day. There’s a very simple example to demonstrate this. Do you smoke every, say, hour? No, you smoke [...]

In about ten seconds, you can find a million different ways how to quit smoking. Let’s do something different here and see what doesn’t work to quit smoking! Nicotine PatchesThey don’t work all too well. You might get a day or so of quit time out of them (think placebo effect) but soon enough, you’re [...]

Really, quitting doesn’t have to be hard at all. Smoking, like all bad habits, is easy to quit once you learn just how to do it. Problem is, what people generally think of as the right way to do it is completely wrong. You’ve probably seen advertisements for nicotine patches and phone therapy programs. You [...]

We all know that cigarettes are expensive. Ridiculously so. Here in Maryland, you’re usually looking at about $6 per pack, and if you’re really trying you can spend over $9 per. That’s not all of how smokers line the pockets of tobacco companies, though. Once you’re tired of coughing up stuff that looks like it [...]

As if you don’t have enough reasons already, here are a few more reasons to quit smoking today. Hopefully they’ll help you get to the point where you’re finally ready to quit for good. 1. Coughing This one should be obvious, but because I went through it in a big way, it’s first on my [...]

Quitting smoking isn’t easy. Getting hooked, yeah, that’s a walk in the park, but dropping the habit is probably one of the hardest things you can do. This isn’t because it’s actually a difficult process, however. It’s hard because nobody really knows how to do it. Most people think that you can cure a smoking [...]