Quit Smoking Monday Messages

Breathing From the discomforts of nicotine withdrawal to the thoughts of smoking that come up now and then as we move through the first year of smoking cessation, recovery from nicotine addiction is a process that can be difficult to maintain control over. Deep breathing is an invaluable tool that, when mastered, will help you [...]

5 Facts about Smokeless Tobacco You Should Know

As the term suggests, smokeless tobacco describes a variety of tobacco products that are not smoked by the consumer. These products, which include snuff, dip and chewing tobacco, are less harmful than smoking, but are still extremely hazardous to your health. Related: What is Snuff? Smoking Alternatives Image: Gum damage from chew tobacco. Courtesy of [...]

Why Quit Smoking?

Most people who smoke wish they didn’t. They live with a hatred for the habit they can’t seem to do without. The fear of serious illness is usually there too, lurking in the background, and always that awful feeling of being powerless to quit. Nicotine addiction does that to a person. What are your reasons [...]

Tobacco in the News

Are Safer Cigarettes a Corporate Ploy, and FDA Mistake? — BU Today Is there such a thing as a safe(r) cigarette? Antismoking advocates recently pushed through legislation that gives the Food and Drug Administration broad new powers to regulate tobacco. The legislation requires that health warnings on tobacco products be larger, bans candy and fruit-flavored [...]

FDA smoke screen on e-cigarettes

Cigarette substitute produces no deadly smoke By Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan | Thursday, August 6, 2009 At a time when the government is ostensibly trying to cut health costs, why is it trying to ban something that might help people quit smoking tobacco, perhaps the most devastating health problem in the U.S.? The Food and [...]

Electric Cigarettes May Be A Safer Alternative

HOLLYWOOD (CBS4) ― Recently many some smokers have found a way to smoke anywhere they want without hurting themselves or the health of others. They’re called electric cigarettes and CBS4′s Cynthia Demos took a look at how they work. “I’ve probably been a smoker since my late teens,” said Charles Jay. When the Hollywood resident [...]

Smoking Facts Everyone Needs To Know

Tobacco Smoking Consumption: • For the first time since 1965, the percent of US adults that smoke tobacco rose between 2007 and the first half of 2008. There are 45.3 million (20.8%) tobacco smokers in the US. • There are 1.1 billion tobacco smokers in the world, and if current trends continue, that number is expected to [...]

Congressman Matt Salmon Covers All The Bases

“The message that is being sent by the FDA to those who cannot stop smoking, or who do not wish to stop smoking, is that it is better to keep smoking tobacco, which kills more than 400,000 people in the US per year, is the leading cause of preventable death in our country and results [...]

Smoking Everywhere Sues FDA and HHS: Breaking

APRIL 29, 2009 FDA & HHS Sued Over Electronic Cigarette “Embargo” Click Here For Case File  A Florida company that imports and distributes so-called electric cigarettes has filed suit yesterday against the Food and Drug Administration, claiming the agency is illegally blocking imports of its product into the United States. The suit, filed by Smoking [...]

Dr Siegel Sounds Off: e-cigarettes safer than conventional cigarettes

Responding to an LA Times Article…. Congratulations to Bill Godshall and to Dave Sweanor for being willing to publicly put the protection of the health of smokers above the knee-jerk, ideological opposition to a smoking device that we have unfortunately seen far too much within the tobacco control movement. Congratulations to Bill also for his [...]