www.lifeprinciples.com This motivation video uses hard facts and emotional persuasion for people to make the decision to kick their bad habits such as Quit Drinking Alcohol, Quit Smoking Cigarettes, Cannabis, Crack, Opeates, Heroin, methamphetamine , Quit Snorting Cocaine, Ketamine, Crystal Meths or Stop Taking Methadone, Subutex (Buprenorphine) or Narcotics. Sometimes its easy to forget what a wonderful gift life is until its too late. When you are lying on your death bed and you start to think that life was just too short. It only seemed like yesterday that you had your 10th birthday, when you were in school, when you started your first job. It just seems like a fleeting moment in time, gone in the blink of an eye. Then you wish you has just one more year; just think what you could do in that time? You could go and visit a far off place you always wanted to visit but never got around to it. Maybe you could go and look at a beautiful sunset from an airplane? Maybe you want to experience a total eclipse of the sun. Maybe you want to do something much simpler like smell the roses, feel the raindrops on your face, appreciate the beauty of spring. Maybe you want to tell someone you love them, or that you are sorry. Maybe you want to eat some exotic fruit that you have seen time after time but never bothered to taste it. By this time you are beginning to realize that you have wasted between 10 to 20 years of your life through smoking. Whats more, you paid some £100000 over <b>…<b>
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3 Free Stop Smoking Aids
modernlava.com …………….. Looking to stop smoking? There are many methods out there to try to help smokers quit. Some are free and others are not. What works for one person may or may not work for another. Lets take a look at three free stop smoking aids that can help you kick the habit. 1)Smokers Anonymous Smokers Anonymous is a great program to try and help people to quit smoking. What makes Smokers Anonymous so great is that the advisers are usually people who have quit smoking themselves. Therefore, theyve been there and done that. They have the experience to try to help you be successful in your quest to quit smoking. 2)Starting a New Hobby Sometimes something as simple as starting a new hobby can be effective in helping someone to stop smoking. People who picked up a hobby, like gardening for example, found that since the hobby occupied their mind so frequently that their urge to smoke was reduced. It is important to note, however, that you must pick a hobby which you are sincerely interested in. If the thought of collecting stamps bores you to death(I know it does me!), then dont take stamp collecting as a hobby! You will probably end up smoking more cigarettes because you are so bored. 3)Finding a Smoking "Substitution" Another easy to do free stop smoking aid is trying to find some sort of substitution for a cigarette. Often, when a smoker is stressed he or she will reach for a cigarette because it is habit. If the smoker can find something to replace <b>…<b>
HOW To Stop Smoking Cigarettes Tips
CLICK HERE… smokedeterwarning.net Tips On How To Stop Smoking Cigarettes Many people are looking for ways on how to stop smoking cigarettes. If you are reading this, it is certainly because you feel the need to stop smoking. Anti-smoking campaigns are aimed at helping people get freedom from smoking and a healthier lifestyle. Stopping smoking is not always easy. Sometimes a sheer act of will is not enough. The following tips about ways to quit smoking cigarettes can be helpful for anyone willing to stop smoking. You should make a resolution to stop smoking. This is the most important thing about quitting smoking. Coming to this decision means you must have thought deeply about the negative consequences of smoking cigarettes. It is realizing that it is not healthy for both yourself and for people around you. Sometimes, considering how much money you also spend in cigarettes can be a point to consider. The decision to quit cigarettes should be an expression of your love for self and for others. The next thing to do after making the decision to stop smoking would be to determine a course of action to take. It is common for people to think like they can just stop smoking abruptly. It does not just work like that. You may want to start by reducing the number of cigarette sticks you smoke a day. You can decide to smoke four times again at certain hours. Here will be the start of the discipline that will lead you to a sure path towards quitting smoking. You may continue <b>…<b>
Obama Administration Appeals Ruling on Tobacco Graphic Warning Labels
HomeNewsObama Administration Appeals Ruling on Tobacco Graphic Warning Labels
March 6, 2012 On Monday, the Obama administration appealed a decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon that found the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulation requiring tobacco companies to put large, graphic health warnings on cigarette packages and advertising to be unconstitutional. Congress passed the law in 2009 ordering the FDA to adopt the regulation, which requires color warning labels big enough to cover the top 50% of cigarette packs front and back panels, and the top 20% of print advertisements. Last week, Judge Leon ruled that requiring tobacco companies to use the graphic labels, which included images of rotting teeth and diseased lungs, was a violation of their free speech rights under the constitution. On Monday, the Obama administration filed its appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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HomeNewsFederal Judge Blocks Anti-Smoking Images Required on Tobacco Products
March 1, 2012 A federal mandate requiring tobacco companies to place graphic images on their products warning of the dangers of smoking was tossed out Wednesday by a judge in Washington, with the judge saying the requirements were a violation of free speech. The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act passed in 2009 would have required nine alternating graphic health warnings covering half of cigarette packs and 20% of cigarette advertisements. A group of tobacco companies led by R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard had sued, saying the warnings would be cost-prohibitive, and would dominate and damage the packaging and promotion of their brands. The legal question was whether the new labeling was purely factual and accurate in nature or was designed to discourage use of the products. Federal Judge Richard Leon ruled that the graphic warning requirement was a violation of the First Amendment, saying the graphic images “were crafted to evoke a strong emotional response calculated to provoke the viewer to quit or never start smoking.”
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March 5, 2012 High school students in Miami-Dade County may not be puffing as much, but they’ve turned to chewing and dipping instead. From 2005 to 2010, the number of high school students using smokeless tobacco products shot up 69.2 percent in the county, according to the Florida Department of Health. Meanwhile, the Miami-Dade Department of Health has previously reported that smoking by Florida high school students decreased 43.4 percent from 1998 to 2006.
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February 23, 2012 U.S. troops sent to Iraq or Afghanistan are more likely to start a smokeless tobacco habit than their comrades who stay home—especially if they see combat, according to a study published in the journal Addiction. It is not clear why some troops take up smokeless tobacco after deployment, but researchers suspect that stress is involved. The risk was higher in troops who were exposed to combat or who were deployed multiple times. Troops with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) also had an increased risk. According to the authors, those different levels of deployment can be seen as stand-ins for different levels of stress. Past studies have found that while tobacco use in the military is declining, it’s still higher when compared to the U.S. public as a whole. In 2005, almost 15 percent of military personnel said they’d used smokeless tobacco in the past year—versus just three percent of Americans overall.
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February 24, 2012 Altria Group Inc. is seeing tobacco users switch between multiple forms of tobacco more often, vice chairman Dave Beran said while participating in the Consumer Analyst Group of New York (CAGNY) conference, reported Reuters. Today’s smokers are more open to trying different types of tobacco than smokers of previous generations, and Altria is working on new products to entice consumers who want a change from cigarettes, Beran told analysts and investors at the conference held in Boca Raton, Fla., this week. Altria, whose other products include Skoal and Copenhagen smokeless tobacco and Black & Mild cigars, has seen a shift in tobacco usage in the United States.
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February 21, 2012 University administrators around Texas are now considering campus-wide tobacco-free policies as a result of a new policy regarding grant funding. The new rules established by the Cancer Research Prevention Institute of Texas requires grant recipients to have policies prohibiting tobacco use in buildings and structures where financed research activities are occurring, as well as at the outdoor areas immediately adjacent to those buildings. The grant recipients must also provide smoking cessation services for community members who desire them. In 2007, the research institute was established and the state was authorized to issue $3 million in bonds over 10 years to finance cancer research and prevention efforts. Nearly $600 million in grants have been issued, primarily to academic institutions. For schools that pride themselves on their research function, there is a clear financial incentive to institute the changes.
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Substituting smokeless tobacco products can save smokers’ lives, and there is a scientific foundation that proves it.
That is the message Brad Rodu, D.D.S., professor of medicine at the University of Louisville (UofL) School of Medicine and the Endowed Chair in Tobacco Harm Reduction at UofL’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center, delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Rodu spoke at the session, “Harm Reduction: Policy Change to Reduce the Global Toll of Smoking-Related Disease.”
“Quit or die: That’s been the brutal message delivered to 45 million American smokers, and it has helped contribute to 443,000 deaths per year, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” Rodu said. “The truth, however, is that total nicotine and tobacco abstinence is unattainable and unnecessary for many smokers.”
Rodu’s presentation, “Transforming Tobacco Use: The Potential of Tobacco Harm Reduction,” was based on his almost 20 years of research. His work shows that smokers can greatly reduce their risk of disease and death by replacing smoking products with e-cigarettes or modern, spit-free smokeless tobacco. These products provide a much safer alternative for those smokers who are unable or unwilling to quit smoking because they continue to deliver nicotine without the harmful effect of smoking.
“Nicotine is addictive, but it is not the cause of any smoking-related disease. Like caffeine, nicotine can be used safely by consumers,” Rodu said.
Decades of epidemiologic research bear out Rodu’s findings. While no tobacco product is completely safe, smokeless products have been shown to be 98 percent safer than cigarettes. In the United Kingdom, the Royal College of Physicians reported in 2002 that smokeless tobacco is up to 1,000 times less hazardous than smoking, and in 2007, further urged world governments to seriously consider instituting tobacco harm reduction strategies as a means to save lives.
To see the proof of what tobacco harm reduction can do, look to Sweden, Rodu said. “Over the past 50 years, Swedish men have had Europe’s highest per capita consumption of smokeless tobacco as well as Europe’s lowest cigarette use. During the same time, they also have the lowest rate of lung cancer than men in any other European country.”
In the United States, steps have been made to document the value of tobacco harm reduction. In 2006, a National Cancer Institute-funded study estimated that if tobacco harm reduction was “responsibly communicated” to smokers, 4 million would switch to smokeless tobacco. The American Council on Science and Health – which organized Rodu’s session at the AAAS Annual Meeting – concluded in the same year that tobacco harm reduction “shows great potential as a public health strategy to help millions of smokers.”
Rodu is well aware of the controversy his research findings generate. Opponents of any use of nicotine delivery products maintain that smokeless tobacco puts the user at great risk for oral cancer, a position not supported by research.
“The risk of mouth cancer among smokeless tobacco users is extremely low – certainly lower than the risk of smoking-related diseases among smokers,” he said. “The annual mortality rate among long-term dry snuff users is 12 deaths per 100,000 and the rate among users of more popular snus, moist snuff and chewing tobacco is much lower. For perspective, the death rate among automobile users is 11 per 100,000 according to a 2009 report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Compare those to the rate among smokers: more than 600 deaths per 100,000 every year”
“The data clearly show that smokeless tobacco users have, at most, about the same risk of dying from mouth cancer as automobile users have of dying in a car wreck.”
Article adapted by Medical News Today from original press release. Click ‘references’ tab above for source.Visit our smoking / quit smoking section for the latest news on this subject. Rodu earned his dental degree from The Ohio State University. After an oral pathology residency program at Emory University, he completed fellowships at the University of Alabama at Birmingham sponsored by the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute. He was on the UAB faculty from 1981 to 2005 with appointments in several departments in the schools of Medicine, Public Health and Dentistry. He joined the UofL faculty in 2005. His research is supported by unrestricted grants from tobacco manufacturers to the University of Louisville and by the Kentucky Research Challenge Trust Fund.
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