Since 2001, AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine has offered free acupuncture treatments for people who want to quit smoking, in conjunction with the Great American Smokeout. Quitting smoking can be a very challenging. Factors such as nicotine cravings, increase in anxiety, weight gain, irritability, and sickness due to detoxification can all be contributing factors for people failing to quit. However, continuing to smoke leads to more complicated health issues such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, various forms of cancer and the decline in reproductive organs making it harder for women to get pregnant. The National institute on Drug Abuse found that tobacco use kills approximately 440000 Americans each year and one out of every five of those deaths is the result of smoking. As knowledge becomes more accessible about these health risks more people are choosing to kick the habit. According to the American Lung Association the number of smokers between 1965 and 2008 has decreased by more than 50 percent. The Center of Disease Control and Prevention reported that in 2008 an estimated 51.1 million adults were formal smokers and of the 45 million current adult smokers 57.9 percent of these smokers stopped smoking at least one day in order to try to quit smoking completely. In honor of National smokeout day AOMA is offering free acupuncture to help smokers kick the habit for good! Acupuncturist will be at the North clinic on W. Anderson lane on Thursday, November 17 …
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Study: Smoking Hard Habit to Kick
It’s the most preventable cause of death out there, but that is not enough to make people quit smoking for good. Quitting smoking could be harder than first thought. New numbers released show the number of smokers in the U.S. is not going down and that’s also more bad news for kids.
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Everything in this world is made for a purpose, so do the tobacco. Tobacco serves several medicinal purposes, but its wrong use has created more wrong than right. We human beings are responsible in converting the blessings of God into a Curse.
We often read in newspaper, serious warnings from health ministry about the hazards of smoking. For instance, smokers die young as compare to non-smokers. Instead of these warnings, there is a considerable increment in the number of smokers.
A recent survey has shown increment in production, sale and the number of smokers in Nigeria. Along with it, there is also an increment in the death rate due to smoking.
A survey conducted reveals the growth in the number of death of passive smokers. In a year, more than 11,000 people die in UK due to passive smoking. You can conclude, if this is the data of passive smoker then what about the smokers.
In public places, health experts and Doctors are demanding complete ban on smoking. Due to growing death rate of passive smokers, they are demanding certain rules and regulations for their protection.
There are several causes of death such as household structure, unemployment, passive smoking and active smoking. On the base of researches done over the causes of death, it has been found that smoking is the main cause.
Tobacco one of the main ingredients of smoking is already causing a lot of harm. But, still its producers are making a lot of money from its farming. Tobacco is nothing but death of our loved ones; still we love to have it. We are spending a lot of money in buying this poison. Over the cigarette pack, it is clearly written that ‘Cigarette smoking is injurious to health’. Still we go for it and the cigarette companies are making a lot of money form our death.
When all of us know, that cigarette smoking is dangerous and harmful for health then why do not we quit it. A few significant steps are also needed from the side of the government. They need to ban all the products related to addiction such as cocaine, heroin, Indian hemp etc.
Moreover, we also need a powerful determination of quitting smoking. Based on a few misconceptions, we should not make a fool of ourselves that we cannot quit. Make your mind clear from all the wrong beliefs and determine that ‘I will never smoke’.
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Hi, my name is Karen and I am a non-smoker. Having kicked my addiction to nicotine and cigarettes I am living a healthier no smoking lifestyle. If you would like to be a non-smoker, too, join me on your quest to find the best solution to help you stop smoking.
