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12/24/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Education and intervention: New training lab uses virtual reality to dissuade teens from smoking

Virtual reality has a wide variety of uses, ranging from augmenting entertainment experiences to helping pilots train for actual flight. Now, research scientists from the Yale Center for Health & Learning Games are working towards newer, more noble applications for this technology. One of these is smokeSCREEN VR, the virtual reality adaptation of PlayForward: smokeSCREEN, […]

11/27/2017 / By Zoey Sky

Why “safer than cigarettes” doesn’t mean “safe” — understanding how e-cigarettes work

Less than 10 years ago, a lone company in China advertised the e-cigarette as an unheard-of product that was a safer and tobacco-free alternative to regular cigarettes. In 2010, the U.S. market welcomed vaping. Now, health officials, policymakers, and researchers are working double-time to stay updated with a “rapidly expanding, wildly controversial, and largely unregulated $3 […]

09/16/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Still haven’t quit smoking? Time to go for a run, according to new study

If you’re a smoker trying to kick their nicotine habit, then a good jog with friends may be what you need. According to researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC), becoming part of a running group can help you get off your addiction to smoking. They came to this conclusion following the promising results […]

02/02/2017 / By Jude Henry

Finland unveils drastic plan to make their nation virtually tobacco-free by 2040

We’re all familiar with designated nonsmoking areas in restaurants and other public places. But how about a nonsmoking country? Could it be? If Finland has its way, the answer is a resounding “yes.” The country’s goal is to be mostly tobacco-free by 2040. And that trend might waft over into the rest of the world. […]

01/01/2017 / By Howard Roark

Secondhand smoke endangers pets, raises their risk of cancer

Secondhand smoke is hazardous not only for non-smoking children and adults, but for pets as well. A new FDA Consumer Update entitled Secondhand (and Third-Hand) Smoke May Be Making Your Pet Sick details yet more reasons to quit smoking. A less informed era If you are middle-aged or older, chances are very good that as you […]

03/17/2016 / By David Rice

Cigarettes burning up your money? When stress hits, we have many, many solutions …

No problem is too small for a cigarette, when you’re addicted. Oh the stress, it weighs so heavy at times. It could be mental, physical, or worse, both. It’s usually both. Then the emotions kick in, either right after the cigarette or when in DIRE need of one. Electricity bill just came and it’s too […]

12/03/2015 / By David Rice

The 75-year-old brainwash and how advertising tricked smokers psychologically – Why haven’t YOU quit smoking yet?

Many smokers still believe today that it aids in digestion. Nearly every smoker, if asked, will tell you they enjoy a cigarette after meals, but it’s actually the breathing pattern (long inhale, hold, long exhale) that a smoker enters into when they light up that relaxes them, but most smokers fail to realize it. Let’s […]

10/19/2015 / By David Rice

Pre-2016 New Year Resolution – Stop Smoking Now and Ring in New Year as a Non-Smoker!

Get your mind wrapped around it. The time has come. Get your mind AND body ready, you’re about to quit cigarettes once and for all. Sure, millions of people are quitting commercial cigarettes by using a method that was not even invented as a cessation (quit) method–electronic cigarettes, better known by their nickname “e-cigs.” People […]

10/07/2015 / By David Rice

Foods that end cigarette addiction – the TOP 8 SUPERFOODS listed here!

People who smoke cigarettes, drink diet soda, eat conventional meat, consume dairy and eat bread often suffer some of the worst anxiety and depression of all people on the planet. It is not hereditary, genetic or a chemical imbalance in their brain. It is not due to their “way of looking at things.” Millions of […]

09/13/2015 / By David Rice

After you quit smoking, will your weight skyrocket, like so many others? New study tells all!

Most smokers eat junk food nearly every day of their smoking lives because they know the cigarettes are already destroying most of their “healthy living,” so why bother to eat right, right? There are 45 million smokers in the United States, and coincidentally, Americans eat about 50 billion hamburgers a year, so go figure. In […]

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