http://www.healthzine.org/feed/ http://www.healthzine.org/ Every day new articles and updated info on all your health, beauty and fitness concerns. Fri, 2 May 2008 09:29:34 +0200 Fri, 2 May 2008 09:29:34 +0200 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/nicotine-withdrawal1 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/nicotine-withdrawal1 If you have decided to finally quit smoking, then it’s a good, life changing choice. Perhaps you want to quit because you are simply aware of the dangers of smoking. Most smokers usually are, but you, you have decided to take action. This is certainly something commendable. But there is a challenge entailed when you want to quit smoking. Hurdles and obstacles to cope with and overcome. They can be difficult, but yet it is possible to succeed. Among the major hurdles you’ve got to contend with is nicotine withdrawal. Nicotine in itself is not harmful, but it’s the element in cigarettes which make them addictive. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:16:35 +0200 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/giving-up-smoking http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/giving-up-smoking Why consider giving up smoking? For quite a lot of reasons, and those reasons are, well, reasonable. For one thing, a person who has habitually smoked will have a shortened life span. They would die 10 years earlier than they should. When a person smokes, they inhale about 4000 chemicals, most of which are harmful. Such chemicals include formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, tar, hydrogen cyanide and nicotine. One stick of cigarette is toxic in itself which instigates harmful effects in the body. What more if it's smoked and huffed and puffed for years? One should well think of all the toxins they have inhaled, and the health detriments they create in the body. Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:04:23 +0100 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/smoking-cessation1 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/smoking-cessation1 It can be tough trying to break free from a habit. After all, it has become inherent to a person. It is what they have lived with for so long and have been used to it. What can be worse is when a habit involves physiological and psychological dependence. This is how it could be with the smoking habit due to nicotine addiction. Tobacco remains to be the foremost cause of deaths all over the world. Such is how alarming the dangers of smoking have become. There had been tobacco control movements to make an impact on the psyche of the smoker. Thu, 6 Mar 2008 04:25:47 +0100 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/effects-of-smoking1 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/effects-of-smoking1 No matter what good one imagines to get out of smoking, it certainly won’t outweigh the harmful effects of the habit. Yes, the effects of smoking are far too dangerous. The whole point is that SMOKING KILLS, and that is a fact. This fact has been proven by researches and studies. To be more specific, it causes 25 ominous diseases and 11 cancers. This is certainly not to be brushed aside. When one habitually smokes, it is for sure that they will suffer from ill health as a consequence. Not only them, but the people around them too. Their families- people they love. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:29:55 +0100 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/stop-smoking1 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/stop-smoking1 Smoking is cool, and that’s all. All it can do is make one look glamorous or manly. Others do it to relieve tension or stress. But in any way it is perceived, it is unreasonable to smoke. Smoking can easily rob away one of good health. When one is in the habit of smoking, they are taking years away from their life. Why so? Because smoking leads to the development of deadly diseases such as cancer, emphysema and other respiratory diseases, even cardiovascular diseases. It is only imperative for one to stop smoking when smoking has become habitual. Why stop smoking? It’s because any attempt made to stop smoking and implementing it is sure to have benefits. Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:35:36 +0100 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/smoking-facts1 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/smoking-facts1 As far as centuries ago when smoking started, smoking facts have been there. These facts may be good or bad then. To this day, however, what is it that has been established about smoking facts? They have been proven- smoking facts which validate that there is nothing beneficial to be gained out of smoking. Most people smoke to look glamorous or sociable. Others smoke for stress relief. Still, others do so to lose weight. But of all these perceived “good” out of smoking cigarettes, there is an accompanying danger. Ranging from minor respiratory illnesses, to lung cancer, emphysema and early death. Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:28:43 +0100 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/smoking-ban1 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/smoking-ban1 Is there any good with smoking? None, undoubtedly despite its perceived glamour and relaxation benefits. Smoking is a habit with deadly consequences. What’s more, the havoc it instigates goes beyond smokers themselves. With passive smoking, smokers drag others into their graves as well. Governments have acknowledged this fact. So they have imposed a smoking ban. Many countries enforced laws on a smoking ban. Along with this move, conflicting reactions have risen. The general populace may have a positive reaction towards the smoking ban. But there is an opposite reaction to it- mostly coming from business groups. It is estimated that 1,000 people die every year due to passive smoking. Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:21:13 +0100 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/women-smoking1 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/women-smoking1 Women hold the responsibility of giving life. But what if a woman who ought to bear a child is responsible for the child’s ill health or even death? Such is highly possible, especially in the case of women smoking. In more ways imaginable, women smoking are put to increased health risks. These due to the precarious habit of smoking. Women smoking may not at all be aware of the consequences of their habit. They are not mindful that the risks they impose are not only upon themselves but to their child as well. As much as women smoking may look glamorous, is the glamour of smoking worth all the trouble it can cause? There is a significant number of infant fatalities all due to the mother’s smoking habit. Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:44:46 +0100 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/smokers-lungs http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/smokers-lungs The real picture of a smokers lungs? A grim, deadly reality which can highly possibly lead to fatality. Smoking primarily wreaks havoc on the lungs. And the morbid truth about smoking is that its casualties cut two ways- that on the first hand smoker and the passive smoker. Passive smokers are those who incidentally acquire smokers lungs by inhaling second hand smoke. Those living in the same household, even children, are more likely to become passive smokers. And passive smoking is as dangerous as directly smoking a cigarette itself. Passive smokers in fact inhale more cigarette smoke than direct smokers do, so they are put to the peril of having the dismal reality of a smokers lungs. Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:24:28 +0200 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/quitting-smoking http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/quitting-smoking Despite its perceived glamour or the sense of relaxation that it delivers, the risks of smoking are undoubtedly heavier on the scale as they are innumerable. Not only does smoking wreak tremendous health havoc on the smoker, but it inflicts harm on others as well. Second hand smoke is as toxic, if not more, than first hand smoke and looking at all angles will only lead to the conclusion that quitting smoking is imperative. Quitting smoking is much more like losing weight. It may take time and it entails much commitment and focus. Quitting smoking, in fact, is not only a one-dimensional physical endeavor. Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:06:08 +0200 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/smoking-cessation http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/smoking-cessation Innumerable reasons can be cited as to why a smoker must take the crucial step of engaging in smoking cessation measures. As much as a habitual and nicotine dependent smoker has grown comfortable with their regular nicotine snuffle, they may never know the difference a nicotine addiction-free living can bring. They may never know how it is to breathe freely with clean, fresh air with an added vitality. Unless of course they give smoking cessation a try, actually do it, resolve to stick with it and eventually succeed in it. Acknowledging that one needs smoking cessation help is the foremost, crucial factor that a perennial smoker can do. Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:54:18 +0200 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/pregnant-smoking http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/pregnant-smoking A pregnant woman should well be aware that taking responsibility for her health is being mindful of her baby’s welfare as well. When pregnant, a woman is basically intertwined with the being inside her. What a pregnant woman is includes the baby within her womb, and as such, she has to be very prudent when tending to her well-being. But there are those women who have engaged in the habit of smoking while yet single and unpregnant, and such a detrimental habit can be carried on causing an alarming misdemeanor of pregnant smoking. An individual smoking in itself is a need for expedient concern. Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:52:03 +0200 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/stop-smoking-aids http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/stop-smoking-aids Smoking seems to be one of the tempting habits which is bound to wreak havoc on one’s health. As much as there has been widespread campaigns and propaganda on the ill-effects and dangers of smoking, a multitude remains to be under the grip of nicotine addiction. “Under the grip of nicotine addiction”. Such a phrase may be more appropriate as in most cases, smoking has become an addiction. As much as smokers are against the idea, they may actually crave for several or so cigarette sticks a day. In the endeavor of contending with such compulsion, smokers who intend to break free from their destructive habit and addiction seek deliverance from stop smoking aids. Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:02:19 +0200 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/second-hand-smoke http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/second-hand-smoke The most disheartening fact pertaining to smoking is that it does not only harm the smoker, but those within the immediate surroundings as well. Metaphorically speaking, when somebody is in the habit of smoking in the house or in an enclosed public place, they are basically digging their own graves while taking somebody with them. Despite rampant awareness campaigns, however, the statistics about smoking remain alarming as habitual and addicted smokers choose to be oblivious to the threatening consequences of smoking to their health and that of their loved ones who are exposed to second hand smoke. Further statistics indicate that 42% of children live in homes where a family member smokes and such children are basically smoking themselves as they inhale the toxins and harmful substances found in second hand smoke. Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:50:15 +0200 http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/nicotine http://www.healthzine.org/Quit-smoking/nicotine When one thinks of the word nicotine, it is generally associated with smoking and consequently cancer and death. Such may be the common notion, but there is actually another side of the coin pertaining to this substance: Nicotine is good for the health. By this, it means nicotine alone and has nothing to do with smoking. The substance, in its pure form is actually safe and non-toxic. One may well keep in mind that there are over 4,000 odd chemicals consumed when smoking a cigarette, and it is basically some of these chemicals that cause hazard to the health and not nicotine.