Health Consequences of Smoking, Surgeon General's Report Smokers risk damage to almost all major organs in their bodies, according to the latest report by the surgeon general The list of diseases caused by tobacco now includes cancers of the kidneys, stomach, cervix, and pancreas as well as leukemia, cataracts, pneumonia, and gum disease. These illnesses are in … [Read more...] about Smokers Risk Damage to All Major Body Organs
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Over The Bridge and Through the Woods
To big tobacco's house we go? Quitting smoking involves a major life change and does strange things to the human psyche. We can convince ourselves of almost anything if we truly grasp onto a belief in our minds. Thinking that you cannot quit smoking is one such belief that will literally kill you! As a very young child, I thought that I would never be able to tie … [Read more...] about Over The Bridge and Through the Woods
Just Don’t Smoke!
At 2.6 years quit I rarely think of smoking anymore. If I do entertain the concept of smoking I almost always cancel out the thought instantly. The most important aspect of the quit process is to become educated about what smoking does to the human body. As a young quit I forced myself to watch a Lung Bronchoscopy of a patient with lung cancer. He was a 57 year old … [Read more...] about Just Don’t Smoke!
Is It Really Worth Dying Over?
Since the 1957 report suggested a link between smoking and lung cancer, the connection has been firmly established. Lung cancer now kills 20,000 people every year and health experts predict that lifetime smokers have a fifty percent chance of dying of a smoking-related illness in middle-age. It is also been established that tobacco smoking causes at least twenty-five … [Read more...] about Is It Really Worth Dying Over?
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