Smoking Cessation - By Category
Reasons to Quit Smoking , Quit Smoking Benefits and Tobacco Statistics
This section will help you get started with a solid quit smoking program. Start with your reasons to quit smoking, and also read about the benefits you'll enjoy when you quit smoking. Benefits of smoking cessation begin within just 20 minutes of the last cigarette. The tobacco statistics section includes information about smoking-related illnesses and world-wide smoking facts and figures.
Prepare for Success! Develop a Plan to Help You Quit Smoking
This section offers you quit smoking help to get you on your way with smoking cessation. Learn what to expect when you quit smoking, and what tools you should have on hand. The quit smoking help section will guide you through developing a plan to quit smoking for good. Use the Quit Smoking 101 free e-mail course to help you get started.
Quit Smoking Aids
This section reviews nicotine (NRTs) and non-nicotine-based quit smoking aids. Learn about the nicotine patch, gum, inhaler, nasal spray and nicotine lozenges. You'll also find information about alternatives to NRTs, such as bupropion(Zyban or Wellbutrin), acupuncture and hypnosis.
After You Quit Smoking Tobacco
Once you quit smoking, learn how your body begins the healing process. Get quit smoking tips to help you manage physical withdrawal from nicotine, along with ways to deal with cravings to smoke and where to find quit smoking support.
Personal Quit Smoking Stories and More
Read the personal quit stories and accounts from those who have passed significant smoke free milestones. These gems have been collected and preserved here so that everyone can grab a little inspiration when they need it. Enjoy!
Smoking Relapse - Prevention and How to Recover
It's been shown that most smokers quit a few times before they are able to make smoking cessation permanent. This section deals with issues regarding smoking relapse - how to prevent one, as well as how to recover once you've relapsed.
Cigarette Ingredients and Additives
The ingredients and additives in cigarettes when burned, create toxic, harmful chemical compounds. Over 40 known carcinogens are present in cigarette smoke.
Tobacco Related Cancers
Tobacco use contributes to more than 440,000 deaths in the United States annually, many of which are from cancer. From lung cancer to cancer of the mouth, larynx, esophagus, and pancreas, tobacco can play a part in all of them. Cigarette smoking is responsible for 87 percent of all lung cancer cases annually in the United States.
COPD, Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema
This section covers information about lung diseases associated with COPD, also known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Chronic bronchitis and emphysema are both forms of COPD, and are most often caused by cigarette smoking.
How Smoking Affects Your Health
Smoking and Your Health. From lung cancer to COPD; heart disease to diabetes, tobacco is bad news for our bodies. Worldwide, a person dies every 8 seconds from tobacco related disease. Learn how smoking affects your health from head to toe.
Teen Smoking - Information for Teens and Their Families
Information for kids and their families about teen smoking. From facts and figures on the dangers of smoking to how to influence young people not to start smoking cigarettes, this section is meant to help motivate kids to stay smoke free.
The Dangers of Secondhand Smoke
Secondhand smoke is a toxic by-product of smoking tobacco which affects anyone who is exposed to it. Otherwise known as environmental tobacco smoke(ETS), find out why it is harmful, who is most at risk from exposure, and what you can do to protect yourself and loved ones from it.
Tobacco Related Disease Pictures
Links provided here to pictures of what tobacco products do to the human body. Tobacco disease comes in many forms, from lung cancer and oral cancer to gangrene. Warning: these tobacco disease photo gallery pictures are very graphic in nature.
Tobacco Research and Reform - Information and Resources
Tobacco companies are being held accountable for more and more of the diseases and deaths their products cause. Learn about what is going on in the field of tobacco research and reform around the world.
Cigars, Pipes and Smokeless Tobacco
All forms of tobacco are hazardous to our health. There is no safe tobacco product on the market today. Learn about the dangers posed by cigar and pipe smoking, as well as smokeless tobacco.