Smoking is dangerous; plain and simple. If you are the smoker it is dangerous to you in many ways. And, non-smokers, did you know that you are in danger from second hand smoke yourself. Second hand smoke seems so harmless, yet in some ways it can be even more lethal than putting the cancer stick up to your very own mouth!

Read on if you want to find out about some of the most harmful smoking effects associated with the habit of cigarette smoking.

1) Second hand...

The New Year is around the corner and many of us will be making resolutions. Every year, the top three New Years resolutions are to quit smoking, lose weight and handle finances better.
Most smokers will not keep their New Years Resolutions to quit smoking. How many times have you put give up smoking on your New Year resolutions list?

I put quit smoking on my New Years Resolution list every year for 10 years. My husband and I had a ritual every New Years Eve. I would...

Read overall effects of smoking on your body and society

It is said that more than 400,000 deaths in the U.S. each year are from smoking-related illnesses

eyes - smokers are likely to get wrinkles on their eyes
lips - exccessive Smoking lead to lip cancer
mouth - According to the CDC, over 25,000 to 30,000 new cases of oral and pharyngeal cancer is diagnosed and over 8,000 deaths occur due to oral cancer. The primary cause of oral cancer is smoking

Skin -...

I started smoking when I was twenty-four. My husband started smoking when he was nine. That speaks volumes to the age people start smoking.

The age people start smoking is dependant on a lot of factors – home environment, social pressures, location, ease of access to cigarettes, society’s influence – but really the decision to light up is totally the decision of the smoker.

At this point, everyone knows smoking is bad for him or her. The advertisements on...

It is now a fact that smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, causing many diseases and reducing the health of smokers in general. It is also a fact that quitting smoking has immediate as well as long term benefits. Smoking cigarettes with lower machine-measured yields of tar and nicotine provides no clear benefit to health.

Cigarette smoking causes lung cancer. In fact, smoking tobacco is the major risk factor for lung cancer. People who smoke are 10 to 20 times more likely...

Quitting smoking "cold turkey" can be a daunting idea for many people. They dread the thought of dealing with physical, mental and emotional cravings while at the same time trying to overcome the mindless habit that smoking has become during so many of their activities.

However, there is an easier way to give up smoking that works well for many people; gradually cutting down the frequency of smoking before quitting altogether.

There are many ways to do this, and...

The two medicines involved in a new stop smoking shot - the SMARTTM Shot - has been around for about ten years, Scopolamine and Atarax, and are now FDA approved for stop smoking aids.

SMART stands for Scopolamine Medicated Anticholinergic Receptor Treatment, with Scopolamine as a medicine that contains the ingredient of the seasickness patch, while Atarax is an antihistamine like Benadryl.

Together, they block the brain nicotine receptors and ease the physical...

If you have ever had to witness the passing of a loved one due to lung cancer then you have witnessed a fate that you would not wish upon your worst enemy. For this reason many smokers and ex smokers have been looking into lung cleansing as a way to avoid this fate and other respiratory health problems that years of smoking can lead to.

Such illnesses include:

• Lung Cancer - This is the most common of all cancers and remission rates are not very high once...

Smoking is dangerous for almost the entire body. Although every smoker is aware of the health risks linked with the habit of smoking, but few people have tried to quit smoking. Among those who at least try to end, only a few will succeed. The presence of nicotine in cigarettes is a very important effect on the mind. So smoking is the worst addiction. May influence not only the smoker, but he inhaled the smoke damage to other people around them. Passive smokers are bound to suffer from...

Smoking has been long discussed as a relaxation habit. I have heard many people say how much they like the high they feel when they lite up a cigarette.  They proclaim with high integrity how good it is.  Is it really? Although you get a euphoric high, the affects on your body are detrimental. It’s like taking two steps forwards and then four steps back.

Let us take a look at some grusome facts about a cigarette and the nicotine it has.

A cigarette has 4000...