This article contains details about what will happen when a smoker quit smoking. It contains information about the side effects which can happen within few weeks after quitting.

As British American Tobacco celebrates 100 years of trade in Africa at its AGM in London (on Wednesday, 30th April), campaigners will be outside, protesting about the heavy footprint it leaves on the continent – death, hunger, poverty, and environmental destruction. A new report by ASH, BAT’s African Footprint [1], says that while smoking is declining in the West, BAT’s profits in Asia and Africa grew by £2 million to £470 million last year.

The government will launch a public consultation next month on its plans to tighten legislation on the sale of tobacco – but new research reveals that people, including smokers, are already demanding more action.

Forty three per cent of England’s smokers tried to quit in 2007, and many of them several times – according to Cancer Research UK’s director of tobacco studies, Professor Robert West. His findings are presented at the Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Wales* conference in Cardiff today (Monday). More than 27,000 smokers and ex-smokers were asked about their attempts to stop smoking in a series of monthly surveys** between November 2006 and January 2008.

This article will not promise that quitting smoking is easy but it will promise that you will have a good sense of direction on how to go about kicking the habit. Here I present to you sound advice on how to quit smoking.

To quit smoking is something not everyone can do with a lot of success in the first attempt. But if you think about the health benefits that you can breeze through it easily. Just make a list of what is are the things that you don’t like about smoking and keep that list at a place where you could be constantly reminded of it. You can use Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) or other stop-smoking medications to deal with the various withdrawal symptoms that plague smokers in the first few days, which are the most difficult of all.