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Gavin Quits Smoking – Day 1
Following pressure from his four children, Oxbox Co-founder, Gavin Hyatt has decided to quit smoking on national no smoking day and compile a daily video diary about his quit. Look out for tweets from @OxboxTV, @Biggav79 and the hashtag #taketheleap
Chest X-Ray Electronic Cigarettes Before and After Smoking Health harmful
In this episode Shawn from www.zeecigs.com reveals the results of his Chest x-ray comparison of a before and after snapshot. In this Episode we compare a chest x-ray before and after which is an interesting view. His volcano like smoking was heavy at two plus packs a day. Shawn Switched to Electronic Cigarettes in 2009. This video is NOT promoting health of ecigs and you should not start ecigs unless you are a long time smoker. This video was added as it was mentioned as an idea in a previous e-cig video a few years ago. youtu.be
Stop Smoking Quit Cigarettes in Minutes!
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Quit Smoking Song!
www.smokingnomore.info The effects of smoking on human health are serious and in many cases, deadly. There are approximately 4000 chemicals in cigarettes, hundreds of which are toxic. The ingredients in cigarettes affect everything from the internal functioning of organs to the efficiency of the bodys immune system. The effects of cigarette smoking are destructive and widespread. "LIVE A LITTLE EXTRA" – Dont Smoke!!
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>
Smokeless Cigarettes Free Trial – Try Electronic Cigarette!
tryecigarette.com – Try smokeless cigarettes for free today! Smokeless cigarettes work just like a nicotine patch and nicotine gum which give user their nicotine fix. Updated electronic cigarette electroniccigarettehub.org ecigarette news. Additional electronic cigarette videos www.youtube.com But, theres more to smoking than just getting the nicotine fix. There is a certain fixation about smoking: The way you hold the cigarette, the puffing and seeing the smoke coming out of your mouth. The e-cigarette offers the same smoking experience. You hold it like a cigarette, you puff it like you do a cigarette, and youll see smoke coming out of your mouth like a cigarette. Except that its not a smoke, its vapor. Some people will be able to quit smoking only a week after switching to the smokeless cigarettes! Heres what usually happens: Once people get used to the e-cigarette, they get uncomfortable with the smell of a regular tobacco cigarette smoke. So, they will stop smoking the regular cigarette for good. Following that, they switched to the low-nicotine cartridge and eventually they will stop needing the nicotine fix. Smokers know smoking is bad for health. But, its not the nicotine which makes smoking harmful. Nicotine is like caffeine to a coffee drinker: Its addictive. The e-cigarette is an alternative for those who need the nicotine fix with minimal damage to their body and those around them. The battery-powered, non-flammable device provides a smoking <b>…<b>
Stop Puffing & Start Living – Stop Smoking Now!! (Long Hypnosis Session with background music).
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Smoking Zaps Healthy Bacteria In The Mouth, Welcomes Pathogens
Main Category: Smoking / Quit Smoking
Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses; Dentistry
Article Date: 17 Feb 2012 – 1:00 PST
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According to a new study, smoking causes the body to turn against its own helpful bacteria, leaving smokers more vulnerable to disease.
Despite the daily disturbance of brushing and flossing, the mouth of a healthy person contains a stable ecosystem of healthy bacteria. New research shows that the mouth of a smoker is a much more chaotic, diverse ecosystem – and is much more susceptible to invasion by harmful bacteria.
As a group, smokers suffer from higher rates of oral diseases – especially gum disease – than do nonsmokers, which is a challenge for dentists, according to PurnimaKumar, assistant professor of periodontology at Ohio State University. She and her colleagues are involved in a multi-study investigation of the role the body’s microbial communities play in preventing oral disease.
“The smoker’s mouth kicks out the good bacteria, and the pathogens are called in,” said Kumar. “So they’re allowed to proliferate much more quickly than they would in a non-smoking environment.”
The results suggest that dentists may have to offer more aggressive treatment for smokers and would have good reason to suggest quitting smoking, Kumar said.
“A few hours after you’re born, bacteria start forming communities called biofilms in your mouth,” said Kumar. “Your body learns to live with them, because for most people, healthy biofilms keep the bad bacteria away.”
She likens a healthy biofilm to a lush, green lawn of grass. “When you change the dynamics of what goes into the lawn, like too much water or too little fertilizer,” she said, “you get some of the grass dying, and weeds moving in.” For smokers, the “weeds” are problem bacteria known to cause disease.
In a new study, Kumar’s team looked at how these bacterial ecosystems regrow after being wiped away. For 15 healthy nonsmokers and 15 healthy smokers, the researchers took samples of oral biofilms one, two, four and seven days after professional cleaning.
The researchers were looking for two things when they swabbed subjects’ gums. First, they wanted to see which bacteria were present by analyzing DNA signatures found in dental plaque. They also monitored whether the subjects’ bodies were treating the bacteria as a threat. If so, the swab would show higher levels of cytokines, compounds the body produces to fight infection.
The results of the study were published in the journal Infection and Immunity.
“When you compare a smoker and nonsmoker, there’s a distinct difference,” said Kumar. “The first thing you notice is that the basic ‘lawn,’ which would normally contain thriving populations made of a just few types of helpful bacteria, is absent in smokers.”
The team found that for nonsmokers, bacterial communities regain a similar balance of species to the communities that were scraped away during cleaning. Disease-associated bacteria are largely absent, and low levels of cytokines show that the body is not treating the helpful biofilms as a threat.
“By contrast,” said Kumar, “smokers start getting colonized by pathogens – bacteria that we know are harmful – within 24 hours. It takes longer for smokers to form a stable microbial community, and when they do, it’s a pathogen-rich community.”
Smokers also have higher levels of cytokines, indicating that the body is mounting defenses against infection. Clinically, this immune response takes the form of red, swollen gums – called gingivitis – that can lead to the irreversible bone loss of periodontitis.
In smokers, however, the body is not just trying to fight off harmful bacteria. The types of cytokines in smokers’ gum swabs showed the researchers that smokers’ bodies were treating even healthy bacteria as threatening.
Although they do not yet understand the mechanisms behind these results, Kumar and her team suspect that smoking is confusing the normal communication that goes on between healthy bacterial communities and their human hosts.
Practically speaking, these findings have clear implications for patient care, according to Kumar.
“It has to drive how we treat the smoking population,” she said. “They need a more aggressive form of treatment, because even after a professional cleaning, they’re still at a very high risk for getting these pathogens back in their mouths right away.
“Dentists don’t often talk to their patients about smoking cessation,” she continued. “These results show that dentists should take a really active role in helping patients to get the support they need to quit.”
For Kumar, who is a practicing periodontist as well as a teaching professor, doing research has changed how she treats her patients. “I tell them about our studies, about the bacteria and the host response, and I say, ‘Hey – I’m really scared for you.’ Patients have been more willing to listen, and two actually quit.”
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. Written by Maureen Langlois.
Kumar’s collaborators include Chad Matthews and Vinayak Joshi of Ohio State’s College of Dentistry as well as Marko de Jager and Marcelo Aspiras of Philips Oral Healthcare. The research was sponsored by a grant from Philips Oral Healthcare.
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