Monthly Archives: November 2011

How Smoking Or Chewing Tobacco May Be Linked To Breast Cancer

In Rajasthan, 18.9% of the population chew tobacco, while 18.8% of population smokes. More people enjoy chewing tobacco and it is clearly showing that tobacco chewing is on the rise.

Asthma and tobacco specialist Dr Virendra Singh said that chewing tobacco was more dangerous than smoking, and it increased the chances of getting cancer. In fact, it was three times more risky to chew tobacco, because by chewing, tobacco essence and supari was mixed, making it more risky. Continue reading

Health Benefit Of Quit Smoking – Health Benefits Of Quitting

Health Benefit Of Quit Smoking

There are many reasons to stop smoking. The great news is that shortly you will be a non-smoker, and you will no longer have to worry about the massive adverse health effects of smoking. To inspire you, let's now have a look at some of the known benefits associated with stopping smoking.

  • Within 20 minutes of stopping smoking, your blood pressure, pulse rate and body temperature return to normal.
  • Within eight hours, the carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal. Smoker's breath begins to disappear (and you no longer smell like an ashtray). Continue reading

Dangers Of Second Hand Smoke To Children

Amber, a non smoker, has two beautiful, healthy children. She would always bring her children to their grandmother's house as they enjoyed spending time with her. However, she faced a problem. Her mother was a chain smoker, smoking three to four packs of cigarettes a day and would not quit even though Amber told her so. She even smokes around her grandchildren.

James, Amber's son started to develop respiratory problems. Amber could not figure out why as he spend only a day with his grandmother every week. Therefore she ruled out the cause was due to her mother's smoking.

Second Hand Smoke For Children

After a while, Amber's daughter developed asthma and started to have same respiratory problem like James. Enough, she did some research on whether her mother's smoking was affecting her children's health. She found some startling news. Continue reading

Quitting Smoking Aids Fake Cigarettes – Third Hand Smoke

Quitting Smoking Aids Fake Cigarettes

My story

Some of my one-on-one clients have said to me: 'How would you know what it feels like? You don't smoke.' In fact, I did. I started smoking at a very early age – passive smoking, that is. Some of my earliest memories are of sitting with my grandmother as she chain-smoked. I developed severe asthma, and remember being admitted to hospital several times with terrifying asthma attacks and other breathing difficulties thinking I was going to die.

When I got older, did I continue to smoke when my grandmother wasn't around? Yes, I did – on the train or the bus, on the way to school … everywhere I went there were people smoking. At the doctor's surgery, people smoked while they waited to be seen, and even my doctor smoked; while I was seeing him for asthma, I was breathing in his second-hand smokeContinue reading

Smoking And Pregnancy – Will Smoking During Pregnancy Affect My Baby

Many to-be-mums had read our previous post "Pregnant Woman Should Quit Smoking Fast To Avoid Baby Deform" and email us many questions, asking how exactly smoking and pregnancy are linked. The more important concern will be, how will it affect their babies?

We'll talk about three main issues that smoking will harm people, badly especially if you are a women. These topics will be: