Archive for the ‘Quit Smoking’ Category

Council Invests Money in Tobacco Firms

Councils have been criticised for investing £20m in tobacco firms while at the same time telling people to quit the habit. Critics have said the £19.8m invested for council workers’ pensions was in conflict with efforts to get county residents to quit. The £1.2bn fund’s largest company investment is £11.3m in British American Tobacco with [...]

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Poor Smokers Quit Smoking Easier

Quitting smoking best Atis cigarette is never easy. However, when you’re poor and uneducated, kicking the habit for good is doubly hard, according to a new study by a tobacco dependence researcher at The City College of New York. Christine Sheffer, associate medical professor at CCNY’s Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, tracked smokers from [...]

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Smokers Need for More Vitamins

If quitting is next to impossible, smokers should take the right multivitamins their body needs to counter the nicotine and other addictive substances in tobacco. Smoking 15 to 20 sticks of  tax free Vogue cigarettes a day needs an extra dose of vitamin C because smoking burns up this antioxidant and lowers the vitamin C [...]

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Charlize Theron Recently Quit Smoking

Oscar winner Charlize Theron, who gained 30 pounds to play a serial killer in the 2003 drama Monster, recently quit smoking and couldn’t be happier. “I was highly addicted,” Theron, 36, says in the December 2011 issue of Vogue. “I thought, I don’t smoke like normal people. I smoke to die.” The 5′ 9½” South [...]

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Blacktown Smoke-Free Ordinance

Like many people, Alexander Larrarte started smoking cheapest Chesterfield cigarettes towards the end of high school and, also like many others, now that he is hooked he wants to give the deadly habit away. “I’m trying to cut back,” the 21-year-old from Mount Druitt said. “Now I smoke probably a pack a week, down from [...]

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Smoking Cessation Programs Encourage Parents to Quit

Researchers say the results should encourage pediatricians to take advantage of their frequent encounters with parents, and try to get them to start a smoking cessation program. “Because (pediatricians) can make use of the teachable moment of a child’s vulnerability to tobacco smoke, they may provide added benefit to helping this group of smokers quit,” [...]

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