To be a healthy person

Most people associate cigarette smoking and tobacco use with breathing problems and lung cancer. But smoking is also a major cause of cardiovascular (heart and blood vessel) disease. Smoking can cause of preventable disease and death Smoking and tobacco use are significant risk factors for a...

Maybe you have already taken your last puff or are ready to quit today. It's okay if you aren't ready now. But you may want to quit at some point. So keep learning and preparing yourself. Many smokers do quit. You can too. Why do you want to quit? Think about why you want to quit. Maybe you...

Some teen girls feel smoking is the answer to their anxiety or stress. These girls use smoking as a way calm down and relax. While that may be true in the short term, there have been studies that suggest smoking actually causes depression and anxiety. Jeffrey G. Johnson, PhD, of Columbia...

Smoking greatly increases your risk of getting long-term lung diseases like emphysema and chronic bronchitis. These diseases make it harder to breathe, and are grouped together under the name chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD causes chronic illness and disability, and gets...

Secondhand smoke contributes to coronary heart disease. Approximately 46,000 heart disease deaths in American non-smoking adults are attributable to secondhand smoke exposure. The Best Electric Cigarette can be a perfect alternative to smoke in your hands,with harmless to other people and...

The harmful effects of smoking on the body and overall health of smokers presented in the list below, only begins to convey some of the short and long term side effects of smoking cigarettes. Tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer. A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a...

Cigarette smoking has been strongly linked to ailments such as heart disease, lung cancer, and other respiratory and circulatory diseases. However, there are several other cancers that can be developed because of cigarette smoking such as bladder cancer. Bladder cancer affects about 53,000...

  How can you resist the urge to smoke when you are driving  You may have become used to smoking while driving—to relax in a traffic jam or to stay alert on a long drive. Like many smokers, you may like to light up when driving to and from work to relieve stress, stay...