Try to Quit Smoking for the Holidays?

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Managing Holiday Parties Smoke-Free

This provides great tips how to avoid relapsing and having a cigarette during the holidays.  I personally keep my electric cigarette handy for a quick puff during the alcohol fueled cravings. Managing Holiday Parties Smoke-Free Alcohol lowers inhibitions, and that’s not a good thing for a person who is working to quit smoking. While under [...]

The First Six Smoke-Free Months

While using an alternative such as esmokes isn’t quitting a nicotine habit it can be quit stressful. There is no better teacher than the voice of experience, and when it comes to quitting tobacco, members of the About.com Smoking Cessation forum have valuable insights to share. An important resource for the new quitter, their stories [...]

Holiday Quit Smoking Messages

Minimize Holiday Weight Gain Most people will gain a small amount of weight when they quit smoking. Due to temporary changes in metabolism, we can expect an upward shift on the scale of 5 to 10 pounds. Within a few months, quit-related weight will come back off again as long as eating habits haven’t changed. [...]

What are TSNAs? Tobacco-specific N-nitrosamines

Tobacco-specific N-nitrosamines (TSNAs) are known to be some of the most potent carcinogens present in smokeless tobacco, snuff and tobacco smoke. How do electric cigarettes limit the amount TSNA inside electric cigarettes? The electronic cigarette has been around since 2002 and recent advances in the technology used by the manufacturers have led to some incredibly [...]

Holiday Depression and Smoking

Surviving the Holiday Blues Smoke Free If you get the holiday blues, you’re not alone. Many of us experience unhappy emotions and associations this time of year, and those feelings may in turn trigger the urge to smoke. While this may not be your favorite time of year, learning how to survive the holidays with [...]

Quit Smoking Weekly Messages

Confident, Empowered and Thinner! Weight gain often goes hand-in-hand with smoking cessation, and it puts quitters at risk of relapse — the feelings of discomfort over clothes getting tighter outweighing the need to free ourselves of nicotine addiction. Learning to let go enough to love ourselves even when we gain a few quit-related pounds is [...]

Tobacco in the News

Interesting smoking stories from around the world.  It always amazes me how American Tobacco companies are thriving in every other market in the world. Chinese Smoking Deaths Seen Doubling in 10 Years — Reuters Smoking deaths in China, home to the world’s largest smoking population, will double to two million a year by 2020 if [...]

Use Electric Cigarettes to Help Quit Smoking

Having a plan and making a commitment to stop smoking is the first step to actually stopping the use of tobacco. The method that is used may be cold turkey, medication, or the use of an alternative such as esmokes to quit gradually. Some people find that when they quit using tobacco in steps, they [...]

Reynolds, Inc. in the Quitting Business?

Big Tobacco giant, Reynolds American, Inc just sealed a deal to buy a Swedish company that manufactures nicotine replacement products designed to help people quit smoking. As reported by the Associated Press, the acquisition will allow Reynolds to offer products that can “reduce the risks of diseases and death caused by tobacco use,” CEO Susan [...]