If you live on planet earth, then you have probably heard that smoking is bad for your health.  One thing that most people are not aware of is that smoking is the most easily prevented cause of fatality in the United States.  Even with all of the available information disseminated of the approximately 100 million women in the US, 23 million of them still smoke.  Those women between the ages of 25 & 44 represent 27% of the female smokers in the United States of America.  That means that 6.21 million women of the 23 million that smoke are in the aforementioned age group.  If you are in that age group and you do smoke, you should seriously consider quitting immediately.

The risks that are posed to women because of smoking are far-reaching and difficult to refute.  Women smokers have the same risks as their male counterparts, but they also have risks that are unique to females.  One of the first things to mention for women between 25 & 44 is that you might be risking your ability to conceive.  Yes, smoking can cause female infertility.  We won’t even go into the risks to your baby if you smoke while pregnant.  If you want to get pregnant, then you should quit smoking before you seriously try to conceive.

Smoking and Osteoporosis

If you are a postmenopausal female smoker, then you should be aware of the dangers that can come from estrogen replacement therapy to protect against osteoporosis and smoking.  This estrogen therapy combined with smoking can greatly increase your risk of developing cardio vascular disease.  Cardiovascular disease can lead to strokes and heart attacks.  Smoking alone causes a risk for cardiovascular disease, but when combined with estrogen replacement therapy, the risk goes even higher.

Every woman should think about the possibility of osteoporosis, as she gets older.  The bone loss that typically occurs as women age can be a seriously debilitating condition.  If you are a smoker, then the rate of bone loss can be much high, causing you a higher risk of a debilitating injury.  While it is common practice for physicians to do bone density scans for women starting at age 40, it is also common for these same physicians to do the same scans on their smoking patients as early as 30 years of age.  The danger of faster bone loss is high enough that doctors go the extra mile to begin early detection to prevent osteoporosis from taking too strong of a hold early on.

Smoking and Heart Disease for Women

Everyone knows that smoking can cause heart disease, but do they know that each year, roughly 34.000 women die from heart disease attributed to smoking?  If you remember the numbers from earlier, that means that nearly 1.5% of female smokers die each year due to heart disease caused by their smoking habit. 

Cervical Cancer and Female Smokers

It is also common knowledge that smoking can increase the risk of cancer.  For women, it goes even farther than this.  Women smokers are 80% more likely to develop cervical cancer than are their non-smoking counterparts.  Eighty percent is a very large number and cancer is a very serious disease.  Some studies have shown that those women smokers diagnosed with cervical cancer that reduce their smoking habit by at least 75% or more have a much greater potential of seeing their cervical cancer move into remission.  For many women, remission equals survival.  In these situations, quitting might be what saves your life.

Smoking and Breast Cancer

A large amount of research has been done concerning smoking and breast cancer.  The studies suggest that women with breast cancer who smoke have an 25% higher chance of fatality due to the breast cancer than do women with breast cancer than do not smoke.  If the woman smokes 2 packs or more per day, they can increase their fatality chances to up to 75%.  This number is astounding. 

All of the information in the world may not convince you to stop smoking.  Before you will be successful in your endeavor to live smoke free is the determination that you want to live the rest of your life without smoking.  Your willpower over this issue is the most powerful weapon you will ever have.  Remember, you have the choice to smoke or not to smoke.  Choose wisely…choose life.

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Everyone has heard that smoking is bad for your health.  How many women know that smoking cannot only be dangerous to the health in general, but it can also be dangerous to your reproductive health?  A number of illnesses and diseases can arise as a result of women smoking.  The real danger that most people are aware of is the big “C” or cancer.  Statistics show that women in general are more prone to cancer than are men, but many women continue to smoke regardless of the statistical evidences.

Oral Contraceptives and Cigarette smoke don’t mix well

One danger that many are not aware of is the use of oral contraceptives and smoking.  Smokers who use oral contraceptives or hormone based contraceptives have a higher likelihood of suffering strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots that can result in death.  This reaction is so dangerous that women smokers over the age of 35 are told they should not take oral contraceptives.

Smoking can harm the unborn baby

Everyone has heard that smoking while pregnant is not a good thing.  The main points in this area is in low birth weight, premature delivery, still birth, placenta previa, and miscarriage.  There are some who speculate that of the number of miscarriages each year those due to women smokers outnumber those who do not at almost a 2 to 1 ratio.  The effects of the chemicals and drugs in cigarettes on the children directly after birth should give pause.  The babies will be racked with the same symptoms as adults undergoing withdrawal from the nicotine addiction.  There is a statistical connection to children’s sickness and smoking mothers (while pregnant).  There are more ear infections, more colds, more flu like symptoms, and more recurring illnesses in general from children whose mothers smoked while pregnant than with children whose mothers were non-smokers during pregnancy.

Infertility in women – A major consequence of smoking

There is a direct connection to smoking and infertility in women.  In fact, the recorded rate of infertility among smokers is more than 3 times as high as in non-smokers.  Recent studies show a decrease rate in ovulation in smokers causing a higher rate of infertility in these women.  Even implantation of the sperm to the egg in the act of fertilization is impaired in women who smoke.  If you plan to have children in the future, you should seriously think about quitting smoking before trying to get pregnant.  If you do not quit prior to attempting pregnancy, realize that you are increasing the chances of inability to conceive.  As stated above, if you do become pregnant the chances of a spontaneous abortion or even a life threatening condition are highly increased.

Other reproduction related problems caused by nicotine

There are a number of toxins in cigarettes aside from the nicotine.  These toxins can cause many problems with your reproductive health.  They can impair your ability to become pregnant, or they can impair you ability to maintain a healthy pregnancy to full term.  There is some evidence that suggests that many birth defects can be laid at the door of a smoking pregnant mother.  If you are planning on quitting prior to becoming pregnant, then you should give your body a chance to cleanse these toxics before you begin your attempt.  To be on the safe side, you should probably quit smoking for at least a year prior to attempting pregnancy to ensure your body is free of these toxins.

Early menopause can be a direct outcome of smokers who started early

Many women begin smoking while in their teenage years.  This has been linked to early menopause.  Smoking alone has shown to cause menopause two to three years earlier than in non-smoking counterparts.  Those who begin smoking as teens increase their risk of early menopause by 300%.  Smoking significantly decreases the estrogen levels in the body of smokers, thus promoting early menopause, and irregular periods.  These reduced levels can be part of the cause of infertility, early menopause, missing periods, vaginal infections and discharges and other menstrual problems. 

Many women dream of being a mother, but they do not realize that their reproductive health can be compromised by smoking.  Many women might not be swayed by the risk of cancer, but some are more deeply affected by knowing that they might being snuffing out their dream of bearing children the next time they light up.

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With smoking becoming a passion amongst youth it has given birth to a deadly disease called as throat cancer. Cancer which is developed in the throat, mouth or the larynx region is totally called as throat cancer. This is one of the deadliest types of cancer still known because it nearly impossible to cure this cancer once it moves to its later stages.

Symptoms seen in a person suffering from the disease are as follows:-

1. Lumps in nose are one of the major symptoms,
2. Sore throat for weeks,
3. A change in voice is noticed in the person suffering from this disease,
4. Excessive and repetitive bleeding through nose, throat or mouth and
5. The person suffering from throat cancer also has swallowing problems.
It is seen that men’s are more likely to have this disease rather than women. The major of such a thing is because men are more tempted to smoking, and also easily adapt habits like chewing tobacco, consumption of alcohol.

There are various types of throat cancer depending upon its region of growth. It grows in various stages and within a very short span of time spreads all around the region of throat and also keep speeding up its growth with time. The person who is suspected to have the above mentioned symptoms should consult doctor as soon as possible and should go for CT scan, MRI or ultrasound test.

The treatment can be done by the following methods:-

1. Surgery: This process majorly involves the complete extraction of tumor from the affected region.

2. Chemotherapy: Through this process use of drugs or injections helps to remove the disease although sometimes chances of the disease to come to action are a little high then the surgery method.

3. Radiation therapy: Uses rays which help in destroying small tumor in the throat.

As this disease is taking a large number of people under it, Indian government is taking a lot of steps to spread awareness amongst people so as they consume less of alcohol and do less smoking. A new bill has been passed by the government of India due to which pictures of throat cancer will be displayed on cigarette boxes in order to make people aware who are habitual to smoking.

With thousands of people dying due to this deadly disease every year it’s high time for us to stop the use of tobacco or alcohol and make our lives happier and better.

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Smoking and cancer go hand in hand. In fact, it is smoking that contributes to some lethal diseases including cancer. Other deadly diseases caused by smoking are cardiovascular disease and respiratory disease. Consequently, it is really necessary for an individual to quit smoking, to have been diagnosed with cancer.

Not quitting smoking; would create lots of hindrance in the treatment to cure cancer. Sometimes, due to not quitting smoking people may face other complications such as anesthesia and radiation therapy. Apart from these complications, it may also increase the strength of infection in your body which results in poor injury healing, slowdown the heart functions that lead to heart risk. Often, for not quitting smoking your immune system may also be effected; and thus leads to more time in hospital and sometime may also increase the risk of death.
For better understanding let’s have a look on few results that would helps you understand the relation between smoking and cancer.

Researches show that tobacco plays a significant role to contribute cancer in human body. Also, there are other indeterminable studies shows that cancer is spreading due to tobacco or smoking. Consequently death due to cancer is by and large blamed to tobacco habit. Cancer caused by smoking is very deadly as a result lungs cancer claims more deaths then any other type of cancer.

Generally people think that smoking contributes to only one type of cancer that is lungs cancer. But recent studies show that smoking plays decisive role in developing many other types of cancers as well. Smoking habit increase the hazards of many other types of cancers such as mouths, pharynx, throat, urinary, kidney, stomach, cervical and breast cancer as well.

There are literally number of health benefits of quitting smoking. Let’s know the few benefits of stop smoking when you have been diagnosed with cancer.

People generally complain for not having any motivation force to quit smoking. But one you afflicted with cancer, you have many reasons to quit smoking. And these reasons would give you an additional impetus to quit smoking. Smoking leaves great impact on people afflicted with cancer; it leads to anxiety that may sometimes develop into depression. At the same time, smoking also leads to mild head and fear that keeps increasing till you stop smoking.

Smoking cessation will instantly improve your health and you feel better from inside. You respiratory system improves as you quit smoking habit. Once you have quitted smoking, your chances of affiliating in other types of new cancer infection are minimize. Not just that! You feel improvement in your whole health. In addition to that your immune system gets strengthen by quitting smoking habit.

The hazards of cancer decrease gradually in people who have quitted smoking habit. The risks of cancers are down to the same level as in a person who is non-smoker come after waiting of several years. The change in your lungs due to cancer is withdrawn after many years and you feel much better.

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Every year, large number of people, are dying due to smoking habit. The smoking habit is not only confined to male community or group but it has stretched to group of female and teens as well. It is easy to indulge in smoking but tough to tough to quit. Yes it is true—as a result everyday many thousand people around the world explore Internet to search effective tips to quit smoking.

You do know why smoking is so tough to quit? Well, it is nicotine that makes the smoking tough to quit. Perhaps nicotine is the most addictive substance on the face of this earth. Therefore, it is not easy to quit smoking all at once. Nevertheless, it can be quitted but you have to have strong ngdesire to quit smoking and will have to follow stop smoking tips religiously. These tips carry some easy to practice methods and all the methods are designed by experts those are different for different, based on the nature of smoking addiction you have.

Tips of expert to quit smoking are listed blow.

1- Join stop smoking programs: There are so many groups who run stop smoking programs at different cities in the country. Nicotine Anonymous is one such group that arranges programs for the smoker to quit smoking.

Nicotine Anonymous also arranging programs for the people who want to get rid of habit of having alcohol. But the programs are absolutely free of cost for smokers. Experienced erudite are hired to acquaint you with the hazardous of smoking. These experienced people also help you to come over the strong carvings of cigarette. Such types of programs are sponsored by Health departments of a country.

2- Take acupuncture treatment to cure chronic smoking addiction: An acupuncture program is famous for quick effect. You are wrong if you think it to be a painful treatment. Dear it is absolutely painless treatment! In this program, very small and thin needles are used to treat or cure the smoking addiction. These needles are strategically positioned in your body to boost up the channel of your body. And thus, this program helps to come over the carvings to smoke. Not just that! Sometime, a surgical staple is placed in the ear for the treatment. This surgical staple remains in the ear of the smoker till the time he or she quits smoking.

3- Use hypnotherapy method: probably hypnotherapy is the most common and popular stop smoking program. This highly functional program helps you to stop the use of cigarette. Like other stop smoking programs, it suggests to being opened to suggestive thoughts and suggests taking proper rest to relax your body as well.

People generally think that for hypnosis treatment they will have to visit a hypnotherapist who charges a big amount of money as fee for the treatment. But there is nothing like, since the hypnosis program can be downloaded from internet, and you can listen to it any time you like. Isn’t it a win win choice!

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First thing first, let met tell you what stop smoking therapy is. It is a therapy to secure an individual from the risk of smoking. There are two ways to use this therapy programs; for the therapy you can take the help of a therapist and if you are not comfortable in having face to face discussion then opt for cassette or CD programs. Both the programs are highly useful, but for the quick and best result you always need assistance of a hypnotherapist. But before taking up any of the programs, you have to have a strong willpower to quit smoking addiction.

Let me introduce you with some tips on a Hypnosis method to quit smoking.

First, you will have to choose a Hypnosis method to quit smoking. To get the assistance of hypnosis therapist you can contact them directly or indirectly. Many a hypnosis therapists advertised on internet and their advertisements are also published in phone directories. You can choose anyone who is close by your place or whom you believe upon.

Better if you choose natural hypnosis method: This hypnosis program suggests you some effective and positive techniques to quit smoking. The program acquaints you with some such things that can easily replace a smoking addiction. Health drink such as orange juice is suggested to replace the smoking obsession. Since orange juice has ability to reduce the stress and tension that’s why it is prefer over all the other health drinks.

Treat smoking by words of mouth; this hypnosis method is known as positive suggestion in which an individual is suggested to not depend on cigarette addiction.  At the same time, the program also tells you to include other one or two programs like gardening in your lifestyle to divert your mind from the urge of smoking.

MP3 Hypnosis program for music freaks; you would shock to know the latest use of Hypnosis to stop smoking. This method may sound strange but it works. In this method MP3 songs are used to treat the smoking addiction. These MP3 songs are used on premises that smoking addiction is just not within you body but it resides in your mind as well. By using this methods Hypnotherapist wants to divert your mind so that you never carve for a cigarette.

There are many advantages of using hypnosis to stop smoking. Let’s know them one by one.
The Hypnosis method leaves hardly any negative effect on your health after the completion of the therapy.
Hypnosis is a drug free treatment, which is widely known as natural treatment to stop smoking addiction.
This Hypnosis program is a short term program, which can be completed rapidly that save your time and money.
Apart from reliving you from smoking habit, it helps to elevate the confidence level as the whole therapy program focus on optimism.

The Hypnosis therapy helps you to control your own subconscious that result in break the psychological habit. And sooner you quit smoking, the sooner health hazards are reduced.

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