There’s no better time to quit smoking than now. This article outlines some great reasons, including some that you may not have thought of.

It’s not going to be easy to quit smoking, but you can do it. Today there are many smoking cessation aids out there to help you reach your goal of becoming smoke free. Today we touch on a few of them.

Sports and tobacco consumption are directly related, according to a study carried out by researchers of the University of Granada, the Spanish National Research Council- CSIC, the Universities of Murcia, Zaragoza and Cantabria, and the Nuestra Señora de la Consolación School of Granada. This work has proved that those Spanish adolescents who play a sport do not smoke usually (8 of every 10), and more than 40% of the adolescents aged between 13 and 18 do not practice any physical activity.

Tobacco control programs can reduce smoking, and when successful, they reduce personal health care costs, according to a study released on August 25, 2008 in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine. The study specifically tracks the California Tobacco Control Program, which was established in 1989 with the goal of changing social norms surrounding tobacco use.

I started smoking when I was 11 years old. I had been in boarding school since the age of 6, I was comfortably upholstered (OK, I was fat and was known as ’slug’ to my peers) and wanted to fit in with the other lads in my school. I achieved my goal of becoming one of the gang, which also meant having to try the various other substances that were smuggled into one of the best private schools in the UK.

One of the characteristics of a smoking addiction is that it can be very difficult to quit, and is subject to remission. However, there are different kinds of stop smoking medications that can help a smoker quit.