Mark Twain, the American author and humorist, once remarked that it was easy to quit smoking; he had "done it a hundred times."

Kidding aside, the reason why most people find it difficult to quit is because they're hooked on nicotine, one of the most powerful poisons and a highly addictive drug.

It’s so hard to expel this drug from the body that some of the world's finest minds have been hooked for life.

One good example of a person who failed in his...

Stop smoking campaigns are taking different forms in different parts of the world. In the United States, there has been a heavy emphasis on the use of commercials, billboards and programs aimed at young children and adults. Many of these programs are funded by big tobacco companies as the result of a lawsuit lost by tobacco them. There have also been movements to make smoking illegal in bars, restaurants, malls and other indoor facilities. This is because of the well documented effects...

Anyone who has taken two seconds to survey the breadth of the vaporizer market quickly notices that various brands tout their heating element as "the best available" while pointing out health risks associated with their competitors' models. Evaluating all these (sometimes conflicting) statements can be quite a task. The purpose of this article is not to endorse a specific type of heating element, but instead to gather the available information about heating elements in one...

WHAT an interesting story your lungs could tell—if only they could talk! Not only could they give you some startling facts about their size and delicate design, but they could also describe how they function, and the fight they sometimes have to put up to keep you alive. But since your lungs cannot talk, you will have to get their fascinating story from outside investigators.

You can survive without food for weeks. Some have fasted forty or fifty days. And you can get...

Smoking has taken such a large proportion that it has graduated from an addiction to an epidemic. Today it is no less than an epidemic. Millions of people are imprisoned in this fateful addiction. Millions are being spent on smoke on daily. The rich and the poor, the old and the young, male and female, all are slave to the addiction of smoking.

Smoking is a hazard not only for the smoker but also to the ones around. A female smoker can bring in risks not only for herself but...

Smoking is that addiction that doesn't spare even a single organ of the smoker. He is troubled with problems relating to all the organs including the major ones. Instances of lung cancer and infact a number of other cancers are increased by smoking and these diseases are actually found in a larger scale in the people who are addicts to smoking. Lung disorders are common results of smoking.

One very important characteristic of any addiction is that inspite of being well aware...

With the with the onset of the Smoking Ban, it is estimated that over 2 million people in England, Wales & Scotland will have tried to quit smoking in the second half of 2007. However, even if all of these people managed to give up and stay off cigarettes, that still leaves an estimated 8 million smokers in Britain today.

To give up smoking is one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions, with hundreds of thousands trying to quit each year. But the sad fact is...

Smoking is one such addiction that is spreading even faster than plague. There are certain reasons that contribute to its growing popularity. Firstly, smoking is comparatively a cheap addiction. Even the children who are barely in their early teens can afford to have a fag from the pocket money that they get. Secondly, smoking is an addiction that a person can be discreet about. This is especially true for the children and the people who are new to smoking. It is very easy to erase the...

On May 11, 2006, the FDA cave its approval to the drug Pfizer's new stop smoking drug, varenicline tartrate, or Chantix. Chantix offers an alternative to those who have depended on nicotine-base patches and gums to wean them from their nicotine cravings so that they can give up cigarettes.

The flaw in using nicotine products to stop smoking has always been that the former smoker never had any way to be certain that he or she had actually broken the addiction to nicotine. If...

There are quite a few ways to quit smoking marijuana, but are they really effective?  Some of these ways to quit require harsh chemicals or other drugs. Read on for some helpful ways to quit marijuana.

1.  Why is marijuana a danger to my health?

Most of you probably know that along with caffeine, nicotine and alcohol, marijuana has itself become one of the most used recreational drugs throughout America.  Grass has become really popular...