One thing many people want to know before quitting smoking is how long the effects of nicotine will take to stop. This isn't exactly a simple answer, because while nicotine leaves the body quickly, the mental effects of being a long time smoker take time to go away.

Nicotine itself has a half life of twenty to thirty minutes in the body.  That means that all but the last traces of the drug will be gone within two to three days. Thing is, nicotine isn't the major reason...

When you think of quitting cold turkey style do you think its going to be hard? Well actually it's not as bad as you think. Most smoker who quit smoking the cold turkey way have a better chance of quitting for good. There's no easy way to quit and there is no other way to quit. Smoking less doesn't mean you've quit smoking and that's why other methods or quitting doesn't really work.

To really quit smoking cold turkey you will have to give it up all together and if means not...

Stop smoking

- If you have tried to stop smoking in vain for years
- If this is your fifth or may be fiftieth attempt to stop smoking
- If you really wish to stop smoking now

Try Champix. It is a prescription only drug and helps in smoking cessation. However, before we go on about Champix, let us know more about smoking, so that it becomes easier for you to weigh pros and cons of smoking and cessation.

About smoking

Smoking is an addictive habit because...

Help a friend quit smoking by consistently being there as an encouragement to them. Support their goal to stop smoking with enthusiasm and vigor-this well help them face their smoking demon. The power of a supportive family member or friend is amazing to anyone who is trying to quit smoking.

How to Encourage

Many people that are close to a smoker do not know how to encourage them without being a nag. Encouragement is a wonderful gift to your friend or family member and can...

Do you (or your parents!) Recall the times when the tobacco manufacturers publicized cigarettes as being beneficial for you? Making use figures of speech and stereotypes like "The Marlboro Man" and hook lines such as "More Doctors Smoke Camels than any other Cigarette" or Doral Cigarettes' "Taste Me! Taste Me! Come on and Taste Me!" they contrived to portray tobacco smoking with a positivistic twist advertising smoking equally as representing a habit that...

Wherever and whenever smoking bans are imposed, they are accompanied by innumerable protests and difficulties on their implementation. Many argue that the smoking bans go a bit too far and adversely affect the business prospects of many organizations. In many places, the depiction of smoking is also banned in artistic fields like films, theaters, music videos etc. India is one of those countries where a lot of hue and cry has been raised as smoking and altogether drinking is banned in...

There are millions of people in this World that are addicted to cigarettes. It is an unsurpassed addiction that some people can not over come. The addiction literally takes over their lives. For others there is hope, and the addiction can be overcome with a simple tool. That simple tool is the electronic cigarette. Not only will the electronic cigarette help control the addiction, it will be controlled in a safer, healthier way that you can live your life. In now way will the electronic...

If you are a smoker there are manyharmful smoking effectsthat you have to be aware of. Smoking damages nearly every part of your body from your head to your feet.

But you must know how damaging smoking is to the most critical systems in your body; your Cardiovascular (Heart) and your respiratory (Lungs) systems. It is the effects smoking has on these systems that cause the most risk for disease and early death.

Most of the serious and life threatening diseases caused by...

Learn How to Clean Your Lungs Even Though You Are Still Smoking

Aside from the brain, your lungs are the most delicate organ in your entire body. If your lungs are healthy, there are thousands of minute air chambers and passage ways. Each time you take a breath, life giving oxygen is drawn into the lungs. After entering the lungs,, oxygen is passed to the red blood cells in exchange for carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide waste is eliminated from your body each time you...

Almost everybody knows that smoking is bad for the health. Images of blackened lungs line school hallways and hospital waiting rooms, but despite this people continue to take up smoking. This may have to do with the pervasive romantic image of smoking -- an image that has nothing in common with reality.

There are many ways to take tobacco. You can chew it, inhale it through the nose, and smoke it in the form of cigars or cigarettes. No matter how it's taken it is dangerous,...