Most people do not succeed at quitting smoking the first time they try. Mark Twain was known to say, "Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times." I know how he felt. I was one of those who had to quit over and over again before it finally worked.If you’ve ever tried to quit smoking, chances are you know how hard it can be. You... Read more
It seems that our trend toward longer life expectancies has come to an end, and smoking is a big culprit.For some time now, generations of Americans have enjoyed a longer life span than that of their parents. Increases in male life expectancy continued during the 1990s as medical breakthroughs and prevention treatments reduced deaths from heart... Read more
Photographs of celebrities smoking in public used to be an unusual sight – movie studios would even take steps to ensure the images of their stars remained untarnished by such public behavior – especially the images of their female stars. It is only in recent years that photos of smoking celebrities have become so prevalent. This is... Read more
I recently read an article where researchers conducted a study to discover if people who learned the relative age of their lungs after years of smoking were more likely to quit after having that knowledge.It turns out that indeed, people who discovered they had the lungs of a person 20 years older were more likely to be motivated to quit smoking.... Read more
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