Hypnotherapy For Smoking Cessation

History of Cigarette Smoking and Lung Cance The most salient fact in the history of lung cancer is that it was very, very rare before the invention of cigarettes. If one goes into a medical library and pages through old medical texts from the nineteenth century, one finds almost no reference to lung cancer. If [...]

Facts about smoking and respiratory diseases: Diseases caused by smoking kill more than 430,000 people in the US each year. In fact, smoking is directly responsible for the majority of lung cancer cases (87 percent), emphysema cases, and chronic bronchitis cases. Even with anti-smoking campaigns and medical health disclaimers in place, many people continue to [...]

Lung Cancer Medical Author: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD Medical Editor: Jay W. Marks, MD What is lung cancer? How common is lung cancer? What causes lung cancer? What are the types of lung cancer? What are the signs and symptoms of lung cancer? How is lung cancer diagnosed? What is staging of lung cancer? How [...]

Memorial Lung Center Smoking Cessation Support Group Did you know that 20 minutes after you quit smoking your blood pressure drops to normal, your pulse rate drops to normal, and the temperature of your hands and feet increase back to normal? Did you know that 8 hours after you quit smoking the carbon monoxide level [...]

As evidence linking cigarettes and lung cancer mounted in the 1950s, the cigarette manufacturers funded the Tobacco Industry Research Commission (later to become the Tobacco Research Council) to look into the matter. This industry-funded group found no compelling evidence of a cause-and-effect relationship between cigarettes and smoking, suggesting that many other factors may contribute, such [...]

An estimated 146,000 Americans died of lung cancer in 1992, and 90 percent of these deaths were caused by cigarette smoking. Smoking is responsible for about 30 percent of all cancer deaths annually in the United States more than 155,000 each year. If smoking-related cancers could be eliminated from our society, we would see a [...]

Quit Smoking Articles Damaged Lung Photos Warning: Photos on this page may be graphic and disturbing The photo on the left shows a normal city dweller’s lung. The black spots noted are carbon deposits caused by pollution. The photo on the right belongs to an 80 year old non-smoke. It still appears pink and aerated. [...]

Introduction Background Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), or secondhand smoke, is increasingly recognized as the direct cause of lung disease in adults and children.1 ETS is responsible for significant mortality in adults, causing approximately 3000 deaths per year from lung cancer. It also causes significant effects on the lung health of adult nonsmokers, including reduced lung [...]

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Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) Some brand names of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) : Nicoderm and Habitrol patches; Nicorette gum, lozenge and inhaler; Thrive gum and lozenge, and store brands (generics) How does it come? Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) comes in four forms: the patch, gum, an inhaler, and lozenges. It comes in different strengths (dosages), [...]