Cigarettes and Cigarette Smoke: What Chemicals You’re Taking In

Often, smokers would not think about the harmful compounds in cigarettes and cigarette smoke. Instead, they try to think of how smoking help them cope with anxiety, stress, and emotional tumult. When in fact, smoking does exactly the opposite. Smoking subjects you to physical stress as toxic chemicals and carcinogens harm every inch of your […]

5 Ways Secondhand Smoke is Affecting Your Children

What is secondhand smoke? Secondhand smoke refers to the smoke inhaled involuntarily from cigarette being smoked by others. Unfortunately, it contains more than 4,000 chemical compounds that cause 250 kinds of diseases. It may affect your lungs and heart. Smoke increases your “bad” LDL cholesterol, which puts you at greater risk of heart attack. This […]

Quit Smoking For Godness Sake

When a smoker inhales a puff of cigarette smoke the large surface area of the lungs allows nicotine to pass into the blood stream almost immediately. It is this nicotine “hit” that smokers crave, but there is a lot more to cigarette smoke than just nicotine. In fact, there are more than 4000 chemical substances […]

Chemicals Found In Cigarettes? Benzene

Benzene: Is a colorless cyclic hydrocarbon obtained from coal and petroleum, often used as a solvent in fuel and in chemical manufacture. Benzene is contained in cigarette smoke. And benzene is a known carcinogen associated with leukemia.

Top 10 Things That Happen To Your Lungs after Quitting Smoking

[widget id=”ad_unit-16″]ad_unit-16[/widget][widget id=”ad_unit-13″]ad_unit-13[/widget]When you smoke, the first organ-system that is most severely affected is your respiratory system and particularly your lungs. Every time you smoke, your lungs become black with tar. Studies show that after 3 years of continuous smoking, you increase your risk of lung cancer by 99.9%! The good news is that…Well, it […]

You Can Stop Smoking

by: Catherine Olivia The facts are clear. There is nothing worse you could do to adversely affect your health. Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death. Women are three times more likely to develop lung cancer then men. Cancer has now replaced heart disease as the number one killer of Americans aged 85 and […]

Quit Smoking – Are You Ready?

Smokers have shorter lives than non-smokers. On average, smoking takes 15 years off your life span. Why? Because of the high rate of exposure to toxic substances found in cigarette smoke. You would think that this information would be enough to get most people to quit smoking. After all the will to survive is one […]