Quitting Smoking One Step at a Time

Hello and Welcome, my name is Jason and I smoked for almost 20 years of my life.  I started clear back in high school and it did not take long for me to become addicted.  Now I am much older and smoke free. 

Quitting smoking was something that I tried to do year after year only to fail time and time again.  Many people struggle with the idea of quitting smoking and I was one of them.  There came a point where I had to decide whether I  was going to live life as a smoker or quit smoking.

I knew by quitting smoking I would be making a major life style change and to be honest it scared me but I was tired of being addicted to something that was as harmful to my health as smoking was.

If you are asking yourself if you are ready to get on the road to quitting smoking and the answer is "yes" then don't wait another minute.  Get started today, the quitting smoking information and tips on this website will help, it did me.

Sincerely,

Recent Smoking and Health Related Headlines

Nicotine May Directly Promote Development Of Breast Cancer
Scientists have discovered that when nicotine binds to nAchRs (nicotinic acetylcholine receptors), it may not only promote addiction, but breast cancer as well. We know that non-nicotine components of smoking are carcinogens, however, very little is known about how nicotine acts on cells to encourage cancer growth, the scientists explain...
Publ.Date : Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PDT

Babies' First Full Nappy Can Reveal Mother's Smoking
Meconium, the dark and tarry stools passed by a baby during the first few days after birth, can be used to determine how much the mother smoked, or if she was exposed to tobacco smoke during pregnancy...
Publ.Date : Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:00:00 PDT

Medicare To Cover Evidence-Based Tobacco Cessation Counseling
People who want to give up smoking may be entitled to Medicare cover for evidence-based cessation counseling, the HSS (Department of Health and Human Services, USA) announced. Before this announcement, only individuals with a tobacco-related disease were entitled to Medicare cover for counseling to give up smoking...
Publ.Date : Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:00:00 PDT

New Test Allows Individualized Profiles Of Cigarette Smoking
A test for one of the thousands of chemicals in cigarette smoke has the potential for more accurately estimating smokers' mouth level exposure and may have applications for developing custom-tailored quitting approaches for the more than 43 million people in the United States who still smoke, and hundreds of millions elsewhere, scientists said...
Publ.Date : Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT

American Schoolchildren Smoking Less, But Tobacco Use Decline Is Losing Steam
The number of middle and high school children who use tobacco products has dropped since 2000, but the decline has been slowing down in recent years, says a CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) report Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report...
Publ.Date : Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:00:00 PDT

Medicare Expands Coverage For Tobacco-Related Counseling
The Hill: "The Obama administration on Wednesday expanded Medicare to cover more seniors hoping to kick their tobacco habits." Previously, Medicare rules allowed the program to cover tobacco-related counseling only for beneficiaries who already suffered from a tobacco-related disease...
Publ.Date : Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 PDT

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