I have quit smoking cigarettes in the last few months. There are immediate and long term benefits for doing so.

Men who smoke cigarettes run an increased risk of experiencing erectile dysfunction, and the more cigarettes smoked, the greater the risk, according to a study by Tulane University researchers published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. [click link for full article]

As a former smoker who tried to stop smoking several times using stop smoking nicotine patches, I now often wonder why the medical profession think this could possibly be an effective treatment to help smokers stop smoking. The notion that you can treat an addiction with more of the substance that you are addicted to is a strange approach to say the least.

If a person smokes one cannabis joint the impact on his/her lungs is the equivalent of smoking up to five cigarettes concurrently, says a report in the journal Thorax.The researchers examined data on 339 adults from an ongoing study of respiratory health: they were all under the age of 70. [click link for full article]

“The American Medical Association applauds Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich for signing into law a new state-wide smoking ban - the strongest clean indoor air law in the country. The new law will prohibit smoking in all public and work places, including restaurants and bars, making Illinois smoke-free beginning January 1. [click link for full article]

People often want to know what happens when they quit smoking. If you have been researching quitting smoking for a while, you will have seen ‘the list’ of benefits to quitting smoking but here is a list of quit smoking benefits as to why you should want to quit.