Archive for May, 2008
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
What is the most important information I should know about nicotine?
Do not use this medication if you are pregnant. It could cause harm to the unborn baby. Use an effective form of birth control, and tell your doctor if you become pregnant during treatment.
You may not be able to use ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
When people use tobacco products on a regular basis, their bodies develop a need for nicotine. If they don't get nicotine, they start having nicotine withdrawal symptoms.
Withdrawal symptoms and cravings for nicotine vary from person to person. They often depend on how much nicotine a person is used to getting. ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
A nicotine patch sticks to your skin and slowly releases nicotine into your bloodstream. Many kits come with different-sized patches that vary in nicotine strength. For the first few weeks, use a large patch. Then use medium-sized patches for the next few weeks, and use the smallest patches—which contain the ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Are you ready to quit?
Thinking about giving up tobacco is the first step. How ready are you to stop?
It's okay if you are not ready now. But you may want to quit at some point. So keep learning and preparing yourself. Most smokers do quit. ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Many people think that because they don't smoke, they don't have to worry about cigarettes. The truth is that breathing in secondhand smoke, which is a combination of the smoke coming from the burning end of a cigarette or cigar (sidestream smoke) and the smoke that is exhaled by a ...
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
You may have family photo albums full of people smoking at every type of event, from birthday parties to company picnics. That's because smoking was once accepted pretty much everywhere - even in doctor's offices. But that changed as we learned more about the health problems it causes.
If you have ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
When your parents were young, people could buy cigarettes and smoke pretty much anywhere — even in hospitals! Ads for cigarettes were all over the place. Today we're more aware about how bad smoking is for our health. Smoking is restricted or banned in almost all public places and cigarette ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
You don't smoke it. You don't swallow it. All you do is slosh it around your mouth and spit out the brown juices every few seconds. OK, so it actually is pretty disgusting. But so what? After all, it's called smokeless or chewing tobacco. That means you chew and spit ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Emma's friend Megan lights up a cigarette every chance she gets — while she's cruising around with their friends on Friday nights, during breaks at the pizza place, before soccer scrimmages, even as she babysits her brother. Emma's worried — both for her friend's health and for her own. She's ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
First, congratulate yourself. Just reading this article is a huge step toward becoming tobacco free. Many people don't quit smoking because they think it's too hard to do. They think they'll quit someday.
It's true, for most people quitting isn't easy. After all, the nicotine in cigarettes is a powerfully addictive ...
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