For the first time, researchers have identified structural damage to the lungs caused by secondhand cigarette smoke. The results of the study, conducted by researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, were presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). [click link for full article]

For the millions of smokers many times the question is “What is the best way to quit?” Unfortunately there really is no one “best way”, because what works for one person may very not work for another.

Medical studies assures that about 10% of smokers fear to stop smoking because they are afraid of the kilograms gained by stopping smoking, and for this reason not to be your excuse not to stop smoking. I will present some tips to help you stop smoking without gaining any extra weight or any complications. The decision of stopping smoking has to be accompanied with another decision, which is practicing sports to help alleviate the symptoms of withdrawal from one hand and to resist the increase in weight, on the other hand, in addition to increasing the volume of muscles in the body, as it is known that the muscles are burning fat.

Quitting is hard, but if you have help and a plan it is much easier. Quitting is hard because your body craves the nicotine in tobacco. If you’ve tried the patch, the gum, hypnosis or even gone cold turkey and still can’t quit smoking, you’re not alone.

Many smokers wonder how hypnosis is different from the other stop smoking programs they’ve tried. The short answer is that unlike other stop smoking methods, which work in a physical ways, hypnosis works on your subconscious mind in a few different ways.

Quit smoking without using Nicotine replacement therapies such as the patch and the gum. Find out why those products don’t work how you can overcome nicotine addiction without them.