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The 23 Best Ways to Quit Smoking

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Make an honest list of all the things you like about smoking. Draw a line down the center of a piece of paper and write them on one side; on the other side make a list of all the things you dislike, such as how it can interfere with your health, work, family, etc., suggests Daniel Z. Lieberman, M.D., director of the Clinical Psychiatric Research Center at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. (Did you know smoking affects your appearance ?) Think about the list over time, and make changes. If you are brave enough, get feedback from family and friends about things they don’t like about your use of cigarettes. When the negative side outweighs the positive side, you are ready to quit. Then make another list of why quitting won’t be easy. Be thorough, even if the list gets long and discouraging. Here’s the important part: Next to each entry, list one or more options for overcoming that challenge. ...

Smokeless Tobacco: Tips on how to stop

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Smokeless Tobacco: Tips on how to stop Advertisement Smoking is a harmful habit. Smokeless tobacco products are just as bad. Rather than being inhaled, smokeless tobacco is consumed orally. Chewing tobacco and snuff are the two main forms. Newer forms of smokeless tobacco include: snus, which is similar to snuff but does not require spitting tobacco lozenges dissolvable tobacco, which can come in flat sheets, toothpick-shaped sticks, or Tic-Tac-shaped pellets. Why is it important to quit? Smokeless tobacco contains nicotine, which is addictive. Nicotine changes the way you think and act. If you are addicted to nicotine, you crave the “buzz” you feel from using it. This is true for smokeless tobacco and smoking. The more you use nicotine, the higher the amount you have to take to get the “buzz” effect. Smokeless tobacco use has short- and long-term effects on your health. Short-term effects include: bad breath teeth staining tooth deca...