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Successful Tobacco Cessation Programs: Nicotine Replacement

Your doctor, dentist, or pharmacist can suggest the correct nicotine replacement drug for you. If you can’t see your doctor, go to your local pharmacy or grocery store for over the counter nicotine replacement medicines. Read the instructions to see…

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Successful Tobacco Cessation Programs: Behavioral Therapy

Okay, there are three reasons you keep puffing your life away. There are also three ways to help you kick the habit of puffing your life away. They are:

 Behavioral Therapy

 Medicines. Nicotine replacement including a nicotine replacement patch, gum,…

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Second Hand Smoke and Children

Okay, I’ve said what I can to those who are able to make their own decisions. Since small children and babies can’t do the same, let’s concentrate now on what passive or second hand smoke does to little ones.

Children are…

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SECONDHAND OR ENVIRONMENTAL SMOKE

So you don’t smoke? You don’t chew? You don’t dip? Since you take good care of your health by not using tobacco products, you are “home free” as they say. Right?

Wrong.

Every day, men, women, youths, and babies are…

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Females: Chewing and Dipping Tobacco

While many women confine their nicotine hits to smoking, some do chew and dip. It’s more prevalent among women in the South and Southwest. However, government studies estimate that 8 percent of high school students are current smokeless tobacco users.…

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Babies and Tobacco

Will it surprise you to know that babies smoke? If you are pregnant and you smoke, so does the baby you carry.

One study of reproductive health says that smoking and secondhand smoke is a major cause of sudden death…

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How does tobacco affect ones looks?

Since how we look can and does inspire our purchases from toothpaste to underwear to makeup to bath soap to toe rings, let’s take a good look up close and personal at how
tobacco products affect our looks.

Skin

Smoking not only…

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History of women and tobacco

In a recent 2007 report, we learn that cigarette smoking is said to have been rare among women in the early 20th century. It became prevalent among women only after men embraced tobacco use.

“In 2005, 20.3 million (18.1 percent)…

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COPING WITH WITHDRAWAL

Okay, you want to quit. But every time you start, your plan is knocked out by your cravings to chew or dip. Here’s some of the best advice you will ever get about dealing with withdrawal, plus a few tips…

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How addicted are you?

1. Do you still get dizzy or sick like you did when you first started using dip or chew?
2. Do you dip more often and in different places?
3. Have you switched to stronger products with more nicotine in them?
4. Do…

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