Club helps smokes give the weed the boot

IPSWICH Town Football Club is teaming up with health professionals today to help people kick their smoking habit today. The Blues’ community trust is working with the Suffolk Stop Smoking Service and the Kickfree campaign will launch at today’s home match against Plymouth. In addition a new quit club will start at the club’s Portman [...]

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Killy asked: Guys, both me and my father smoke. I have been smoking for 4 years, but my dad started smoking over twenty years ago. I am definitely ready to give up smoking and I hope that if I urge my dad to follow my example by trying to convince him that it will be [...]

Using Smoking Cessation Products

Image by Getty Images via Daylife As an addition to your personal attempts at quitting, you should also be able to find support from a number of stop smoking aids which are widely available on the marketplace nowadays. For instance, in that respect there are loads of natural stop smoking products which are able to [...]

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Is Smoking a Weight Loss Aid?

Image by l0ckergn0me via Flickr A good friend who needs to stop smoking (as I remind her on occasion but never seem to convince) approached me recently about her desire to quit. Her biggest concern historically, is that she is already overweight and can’t risk the weight gain by giving up cigarettes. Since she came [...]

Tulsa – State ranks fifth in smoking deaths

Image by Kaptain Krispy Kreme via Flickr Death rates from smoking have fallen in every state except Oklahoma since the late 1990s, according to new figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In fact, smoking-death rates rose by 27 deaths in the Sooner State — to 332 deaths per 100,000 adults ages [...]

Cancer Doesn’t Deter Smoking

According to a shocking study published in the Journal of Oncology Practice, 56% of active smokers continued to smoke after getting a cancer diagnosis. While it’s widely known that cigarettes contain carcinogens, and are that smoking is the primary cause of lung cancer, it’s also true that smoking can interfere with effective cancer treatments like [...]

Help on hand to quit smoking

Hanna Coates at a Stop Smoking clinic in Barnstaple with health trainer Ben Boswell SMOKERS often use the new year as a good opportunity to try to ditch the “wicked weed” – but there is no need to go through it alone, thanks to North Devon’s NHS stop smoking service. Free confidential one-to-one clinics run [...]

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Quit smoking to keep your brain healthy

Image by Gaetan Lee via Flickr Giving up smoking, even late in life, may help keep your memory sharp as well as improve your physical health, according to a new study. It suggests that smoking isn’t just bad for your body. People who smoke have a worse memory in middle age than people who’ve never [...]

Quit smoking once and for all

Image by Paul Nicholson via Flickr by The Bay City Times Tuesday January 20, 2009, 9:48 AM A free orientation class on smoking cessation takes place from 3:30-5 p.m. at the Center for Rehabilitation, 3190 E. Midland Road. The class outlines the American Lung Association’s Freedom From Smoking program offered through Bay Regional Medical Center. [...]

Carroll working hard to quit smoking all together

Image via Wikipedia Laura Petersen 21.JAN.09 Despite mounting scientific evidence, growing social stigmas, increasing prices and legal bans, 43.4 million Americans still smoke cigarettes, accounting for 19.8 percent of the population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Maryland is slightly below the national average with 17.1 percent of the population smoking, according [...]