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...

Imagine your driving along a beautiful stretch of road in the mountains. Pristine lakes glisten like diamonds as the sun's rays hit small ripples. Wild flowers gently wave alongside the road and the sweet smell of pine trees wafts through your open window as you cruise along. Then, in the short matter of seconds, the person in front of you flicks a cigarette butt onto the pavement where it bursts into a spray of sparks like some miniature firework display.

When I was...

Due to the fast-paced world we live in, people need to access information in compact modules in order to save precious time. Most of us cannot afford to read voluminous materials simply because it eats up too much of our time which could otherwise be spent on more important matters.

This is precisely the reason why new technologies are being adopted by almost all industries in order to disseminate valuable information to the public. One good example of using technology to...

Behavior Modification: Smoking

Even as a child, I’ve always known smoking was bad for your health. My dad smoked when I was very young, but quit due to the health risks he imposed on his family as well as himself. He quit cold turkey, meaning immediately and solely by himself. He said it was hard, but he got over it. Since then he told me never to smoke. Now I can’t exactly tell you how I picked up smoking, but it definitely started after my 18th...

Whether you are using Nicotine Replacement Therapy, Hypnosis or just Cold Turkey, these strategies and hints for aiding you in stopping smoking are sure to assist. It is up to you to ensure that you do these things to really enhance what you are doing, the more effort you put into these exercises, the easier it is to stop smoking for good.

Powerful Hint 1.

Being a smoker is like cycling with stabilisers attached to the wheels, you can find it hard to be balanced...

Let's face it, people smoke marijuana because it feels good and often because they think it is not a big problem like other harder drugs. Humans are creatures of pleasure and if it did not feel good we would not do it. However there comes a time when the no matter how good it feels it seems like we come back to weed out of habit, it has become the norm and ingrained in our lives so tightly that when we think on how to stop marijuana addiction it up feels painful and negative.

Less then 30 years ago, there were very few people who were against smoking and many times during that periodsmokerswere witnessed on television shows and in the movies lighting up their cigarettes and despite the earliest warnings about the health hazards of cigarettes, there was no real push to get people toquit smoking.

When the issue of second-hand smoke dangers was initially presented those that smoked, often in the presence of children and other non-smokers wanted...

If you were looking for a wake-up call to get you to quit smoking for good, you've found it. I have compiled a list of the cold hard facts regarding smoking as well as the impact it will have on your life if you don't break free from the habit.

Here are some sobering statistics to start things off:

-Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 5 million deaths per year.

-Current trends show that tobacco use will cause more than 8 million deaths annually by...

A lot of people like to smoke weed in blunts. A blunt is a cigar-like, hand-rolled "joint". One way to make a blunt is by crushing up your marijuana and filling an emptied-out cigar with it. It's not as easy as it sounds if you've never seen it done or have never done it yourself. It takes patience and practice to roll good blunts. A good joint hits good (smokes nicely), and is rolled tight. That way you don't waste any bud while smoking the weed.

If you've got a bag of...