Why Am I So Afraid to Quit Smoking?

Why Am I So Afraid to Quit Smoking? I'm about to quit smoking. I have one cigarette left, and after I smoke it, that's it. Even though in a lot of ways I am looking forward to quitting, the most prevalent emotion I feel is fear.

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V2 Cigs Customer Service Department will be Available Seven Days a Week

We?re happy to announce that, starting this week, our dedicated Customer Service Team will be available on Sundays! It?s just one more way V2 Cigs is striving to serve you better. Our knowledgeable service team will be here to answer your calls, chats and emails, seven days a week. Customer Service will be open Monday [...]

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Am I at Risk for Lung Cancer?

Do you worry about getting lung cancer? Most smokers do. If you've recently quit smoking and you're concerned about what the years of smoking have done to your lungs, consider this: by quitting, you've lowered your risk of getting a wide variety of smoking-related illnesses, including lung cancer.

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The Benefits of Smoking Cessation

I hope to encourage new quitters by listing some of the benefits I’ve derived from not smoking these past 3 months. I smoked for 27 years, 20 of those years a pack a day or more. For the last 3 or 4 years, I’d been chewing 5-6 pieces of nicotine gum a day on top of 20 cigarettes, so I had ungodly amounts of nicotine coursing through my bloodstream.

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Facts About Cigar Smoking

The facts about cigar smoking might surprise you -- they are dangerous and hazardous to human health.

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The stigma of mental illness and the scope of medicine

The recent editorial in Nature titled ?No dishonor in depression? raises a number of ethical issues. The basic argument being made is that the stigma associated with mental illness, such as major depression, not only keeps people from admitting to ...

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Semantics: ?Ex-smoker? vs. ?Non-smoker?

I will use these terms as this blog unfolds and I need for you to understand what I mean by each of them. These are not universally accepted definitions, by the way. They are mine, and I define them only as a means of distinguishing one from the other?you will see they are very different [...]

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The Non-Smoker's Edge

As a smoking cessation aid, hypnosis has one very important benefit that other quit smoking tools aren't able to offer. Because it uses the power of positive suggestion to help you stop smoking, it has the ability to help you develop and strengthen your resolve to quit smoking.

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COPD Symptoms and Treatment

COPD symptoms include shortness of breath, cough, and wheezing. COPD treatments include inhalers, oxygen treatment and surgery.

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Hookah Information

Is hookah smoking safer than cigarette smoking? Learn the facts about hookah use.

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Cigarette Additives

The list of 599 additives in cigarettes was made public in April of 1994 by the six major American cigarette companies. This list of additives is approved for use by the US Government.

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How Can I Break the Association Between Smoking...

: How Can I Break the Association Between Smoking and Drinking Alcohol? I have a terrible addiction with

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Carcinogen

A carcinogen is defined as any substance that can cause or aggravate cancer.

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Nicotine Addiction 101

Learn how nicotine creates addiction inside the brain and what you can do to stop using it for good.

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Recovery from Nicotine Addiction

Let's look as some common misconceptions about the process of recovery from nicotine addiction that can hinder your chances for success.

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Benzene and Cigarette Smoke

Benzene is present in cigarette smoke and accounts for half of all human exposure to this health hazard. While definitive conclusions have not yet been drawn, it is generally thought that smokers face an increased risk of leukemia over their nonsmoking counterparts.

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Quitter's Flu

Quitter's flu is a slang term commonly used to describe the many symptoms of physical withdrawal from nicotine.

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10 Tips to Quit Smoking Successfully

There is nothing like personal experience when it comes to mapping a successful route to quit smoking. These tips to quit smoking come from someone who used all of the quit tips to quit smoking.

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Why Do People Relapse after Years of Not Smoking?

I have a nagging fear that I can't seem to shake. I am stable in my quit right now, but the addict in me is telling me that 5,6,7 or 10 years from now I'm just going to pick up the habit again so what's the point of celebrating the fact that I'm a non-smoker now? Am I doomed to fail eventually? I know people who have started smoking again after YEARS of abstaining. It scares me.

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Smoking and Atherosclerosis

Atherosclerosis is a disease in which fatty substances such as cholesterol, cellular waste, calcium and other substances are deposited along the lining of arteries in a person's body. Smoking is a risk factor for atherosclerosis.

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Replacement Therapy

Find something you love. Make a list of your interests; it can even be things you wanted to do when you were a child. Anything goes, just rediscover what it was that brought you happiness and find ways to implement it into your life. Take the time you have and spend it on yourself.

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Quit Smoking Benefits - Two Weeks to Three Months

The benefits of quitting smoking begin within minutes of the last cigarette. The physical improvements to our health continue for years. Between 2 weeks and 3 months after quitting, improvements to circulation, stamina, and lung function are evident.

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VA tries quality improvement approach to medical ethics

[American Medical News] How often does a physician have enough time to discuss a treatment recommendation with a patient?
Would a doctor be reluctant to raise concerns if he or she believes a colleague’s clinical abilities are impaired?
How often...

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Smelling the Unethical: Can You? Should You?

The question arises as to how the average person can "smell" (suspect without documentation) that some act or behavior of an individual or individuals is unethical. An often used expression is: "It smells fishy to me." Is everything which determines wh...

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On Repetition and Good Writing

In high school, I was taught not to repeat words too often in the same paragraph, or even within a relatively short essay. I know I am not alone in having been taught that way, because many of the people I?ve mentored over the years present me drafts...

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Back To The Beginning...

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Defending Disability Discrimination

by Thaddeus Mason Pope J.D., Ph.D.

In May 2013, Oklahoma enacted the Nondiscrimination in Treatment Act (NITA).� This law provides: ?A health care provider shall not deny to a patient a life-preserving health care service the provider provides to other patients, and the provision of which is directed by the patient or [surrogate] . . . on the basis of a view that treats extending the life of an elderly, disabled, or terminally ill individual as of lower value than extending the life of an individual who is younger, nondisabled, or not terminally ill.?

Like a similar statute enacted in Idaho in 2012, the Oklahoma NITA is directed at disability discrimination.� This is a noble and worthy public policy objective.� But the NITA goes too far, because it also prohibits clinicians from refusing desired life-sustaining treatment ?on the basis of disagreement with how the patient or [surrogate] values the trade-off between extending the length of the patient’s life and the risk of disability.?

This blanket prohibition rests on a limited and inaccurate assumption that considerations of an individual?s disability could never have the possibility of being relevant to the appropriateness of medical treatment.� Settled principles of law and ethics have rejected such a proposition for decades.� Even disability rights advocates concede this much.� A patient?s disability is often pertinent, even apposite.� Yes, sometimes the disability is not germane to the desired treatment.� Blindness, for example, is hardly a contraindication for a kidney transplant.� But, other times, a patient?s disability may adversely impact that patient?s capacity to benefit from the desired medical intervention.…

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