I have observed people who smoke for many years. My daughter, her boyfriend, co-workers and friends alike seem to get nervous when they feel bored and have to grab a cigarette. This becomes such a habitual activity that it must be very hard to stop. (more…)

My daughter just turned 41 and she has smoked since she was about twelve. I can remember sneaking a pack of Salem cigarettes outof my grandfaother's bedroom. My cousins and I snuck behind the garage and smoked. It was a curiosity. (more…)

I’ve never smoked, haven’t even considered doing so. I had the perfect excuse too—if that peer pressure I was always warned about ever happened, which it didn’t. (more…)

I'm Sammi; a spunky 16 year old girl who's been through a lot but still manages to keep a smile shining on my face. I smoke cigarettes, and, unfortunately, I'm addicted. It's been only about a year now since I've started smoking, but dang, that nagging nicotine sure knows how to keep a hold tight on you. (more…)

I am so excited to be blogging here and here goes my first post. Breathing healthy is something very close to my heart and something I do not take for granted. (more…)

We have seen a big boom in smoking cessation products over the last few years. There has been the patches of course, prescriptions and the controversy that surrounded the e-cigarettes that are now on the market. While smoking a person has less energy, a more negative outlook on life and are less happy with themselves as they would be other wise. Being in a lower frame of mine we could be more apt to eat and drink things that aren't good for us. On the other hand, after quitting a person feels more energetic, more apt to get out and get more accomplished and are less apt to eat and drinks things that aren't good for us. (more…)

Summer is here and it looks like being another hot one. There’s nothing more refreshing than a cool dip on a sweltering hot day, but last year 20 Britons died as a result of swimming in quarries and other open water spots. Open water swimming can be invigorating but it can also be dangerous. (more…)

No one likes getting older, but for us women, aging almost never does good for our looks like it does for some men. There is nothing wrong about wanting to look the best you can no matter what age you are and while the advancing age has its inevitable effects on the looks of even the most beautiful women, there are a lot of things that we can do for our physical appearance well in our 50s and on. (more…)

It is a fact that many teens start smoking because they think it looks cool and makes them appear sophisticated. However, these teens don’t realize that smoking has more disadvantages than benefits. If your teen has already been smoking for some time, it may be rather difficult to get him to stop.

One way to convince your teen to stop smoking is to show him pictures of smokers who have developed cancer due to the vice. There is nothing more disgusting than seeing a person with oral cancer in the terminal stage. For many teens who think that smoking makes them look good, coming down with cancer is the last thing they consider. This alone may convince your teen to stop smoking.

Another way to convince your teen to stop smoking is to reduce his school allowance. Limit the money he can get from you to what he would need to pay for lunch and for commuting to and from school. He will find that he has to make a choice between being able to pay for lunch and a bus ride and being able to buy his smokes. Of course, at the start he will probably want to keep smoking – until his stomach convinces him that he also needs to eat.

Be prepared for your teen to try everything possible to get more money from you for smoking. It is up to you to block his strategies so that he will realize you are dead serious about not giving money for his vice. If he realizes he can’t get money from you for smokes, he may feel the urge to smoke so much that he may steal the money instead. Warn him in advance that if he does that you will end his allowances for good.

The Many Side Effects of Vaping and E-Cigarettes

It is undeniable how vaping has blown up ever since its ‘discovery’ and immediate commercial introduction in the early 2000s. Vaping, to anyone who is still not familiar with it (though I doubt that there are still many of you guys), is another way of ‘smoking’, where there is no involvement of tobacco burning (as well as its many unpleasant impacts on physical aesthetics, but also to its deadly effects on the respiratory system) as it utilizes vapors (thus coining the term vaping) made by the boiling of the food-grade liquid mixtures inside its evolved cigarette-like receptacle. (more…)