Have you been looking for an effective treatment to stop smoking? It is never too late to give up smoking and the good news is that nicotine only remains in your body for a short period of time, about 2 days. Just in case you needed another push, here are 13 good reasons to break the habit.

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco on Friday filed with the Oregon state Elections Division to form the “Oregonians Against the Blank Check” committee to oppose a ballot measure that would amend the state constitution to increase the state cigarette tax by 84.5 cents per pack to fund health initiatives, the [click link for full article]

All vehicles with children inside should be free of tobacco smoke – Canadian doctors say that the lungs of children should not be subjected to passive tobacco smoking. The Canadian Medical Association expressed its wholehearted support for this recommendation during its AGM in Vancouver. Dr. Atul Kapur said to the delegates at the AGM that the risk of second-hand smoke is quite clear to everyone in the room. [click link for full article]

430,000 people… or an average of 80 people per day. That’s the number of people The California Smokers’ Helpline has helped “kick the habit” in its 15 years of service.The Helpline is a free, multi lingual service operated out of the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego. UCSD researchers joined the California Department of Public Health in a celebratory press conference today, August 23, 2007, in Los Angeles. [click link for full article]

My name is John I tried everything imaginable to stop smoking, when something did work I filled the gap with food. Well you can just imagine what that was like, one habit for another I did manage to stop, it would last for awhile, then before you know it I’d have a cigarette in my hands. I bet I stopped about a hundred or more times before it finally happened and now it’s been twenty five years, and no cigarette not even a craving.

Quitting smoking is not easy, but thousands of New Yorkers succeed at it every year. Who’s trying to kick the habit, and who’s succeeding? In a new report titled Who’s Still Smoking, the Health Department sheds light on both questions. The report, based on a large survey of New York City adults, shows that two thirds of the city’s smokers — almost 800,000 adults — tried to quit in the past year, but only 17% of those succeeded. [click link for full article]