Šalje: QuitSmokingSupport.com [bwprice@quitsmokingsupport.com] Poslano: 7. listopad 2000 19:08 Prima: List Member Predmet: QuitSmokingSupport.com Newsletter: Volume 3 Number 30 QuitSmokingSupport.com - http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com In this issue for Saturday October 7, 2000 **What's New On QuitSmokingSupport.com** **Smoking Cessation - Questions & Answers** Welcome to QuitSmokingSupport.com's Newsletter! This newsletter is now sent to over 50,000 + people a month and we are growing daily! If you feel that the material in this newsletter may be of benefit to anyone that you know please feel free to pass it on! Be sure to visit our AMAZON.com bookstore where you can purchase an excellent selection of quitting smoking books as well as anything else that amazon.com offers such as merchandise, DVD's, CD's.! http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/amazon.htm ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` TRYING TO QUIT SMOKING? Using the Nicotrol Inhaler? 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What are the benefits of quitting smoking: http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/benefits.htm ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Sponsor Advertisement: Make sure you visit QuitSmoking.com Excellent Information and Products to Help Smokers Quit! http://www.quitsmoking.com ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Smoking Cessation - Questions and Answers Q: Just how strong is the link between smoking and lung cancer? A: It's very strong indeed: Smoking is responsible for 85-90% of all cases of lung cancer. That's the bad news. The good news is that, at any age, quitting smoking dramatically reduces a person's risk of getting lung cancer. Q: Isn't cigar smoking less of a risk to health than cigarette smoking? After all, most cigar smokers don't inhale. A: This is largely a myth, and a dangerous one. Medical research has shown that cigar smoking increases a person's risk of heart disease and cancer -- especially mouth, throat, and lung cancer. That's not really surprising once you know that cigar smoke contains the same toxic and cancer-causing chemicals as cigarette smoke (and is just as addictive), that smoking four or more cigars in a day is the equivalent of smoking at least 10 cigarettes, and that a single large cigar contains as much tobacco as a pack of cigarettes. What's more, "mainstream" cigar smoke (the smoke drawn into the mouth) contains more of many toxic and cancer-causing chemicals than cigarette smoke does. Even cigar smokers who don't inhale are exposed to their own environmental or passive smoke -- which has been proved to be a risk factor for heart and lung disease -- and just holding an unlit cigar in your mouth can cause nicotine to be absorbed into your body. Q: What is "passive" or "secondhand" smoking? A: These terms refer to the smoke you breathe in from other people's cigarettes, cigars, or pipes -- or your own. Even if you're not smoking yourself, in a way you might as well be, because the smoke is going into your lungs, too. Q: I know that cigarette and cigar smoke can cause disease in smokers. How harmful is passive smoke? A: Recent studies have showed small but significant increases in risk of coronary heart disease, lung disease, and cancer among nonsmokers exposed to cigarette and cigar smoke -- a risk that increases with higher levels and longer duration of smoke exposure. Passive smoke has also been linked with development of lung cancer, heart attack, low birth weight, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, chronic respiratory problems, eye and nasal irritation, and middle ear infection. Children are particularly at risk for the effects of passive smoke. Q: It seems to me that passive smoke would have less "bad stuff" in it and so be less harmful than smoke that's directly inhaled. Is this true? A: No, and yes. It's not true that passive smoke has less "bad stuff" in it -- in fact, it has more: twice as much nicotine and tar; three times as much of the cancer-causing chemical 3,4 benzpyrene, five times as much carbon monoxide, and perhaps 50 times as much ammonia. Despite this, however, passive smoke appears overall to have less harmful effects than directly inhaled smoke. Q: Is the secondhand smoke from a pipe or cigar less harmful than the smoke from someone's cigarette? A: No. Medical experts consider pipe and cigar smoke just as potentially harmful as cigarette smoke. Q: What's so wrong with a teenager experimenting with smoking? A: What's wrong is that cigarette smoking isn't just bad for your health, it's also addictive. Most teenagers underestimate their risk of becoming "hooked" on cigarettes -- until it's too late. The truth is, among high school seniors who smoke from one to five cigarettes a day, a full 70% will still be smoking -- and risking their health -- 5 years later. Even people who have smoked as few as 100 cigarettes report that they can't quit smoking. So why take the risk of starting? Remember, the happy, carefree young people you see in cigarette advertisements more closely resemble people who don't smoke. Q: I just got pregnant, and I smoke. Is it true that smoking can hurt the baby? Should I stop? A: You're probably aware that smoking can hurt you, mainly by greatly increasing your risk of developing lung cancer and heart disease. So you should stop smoking to protect your own health as well as your baby's. When a pregnant woman smokes, she exposes her baby to the toxic chemicals in cigarette smoke, including more than 40 cancer-causing agents. In addition, medical research studies have shown that pregnant women who smoke increase their risk of such serious problems as spontaneous abortion, low-birth-weight babies, and even lower intelligence in the children they were carrying when they smoked. There are even studies showing that male children of mothers who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to become criminals when they grow up! Tell your obstetrician you smoke, and follow his or her advice on what you can safely do to stop -- and improve your chances of having a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. Q: What kinds of treatment besides "cold turkey" are available to help people stop smoking? A: Nicotine-replacement treatments are available in patch, chewing gum, and nasal spray forms. In addition, bupropion, a medication originally prescribed for depression, has also been shown to improve success rates for quitting smoking. Your doctor is your best source for advice on which treatment, or combination of treatments, and dosage(s) you should use. Q: How can my doctor help me stop smoking? A: Your doctor can 1) develop a "Quit Plan" with you and advise you on successful quitting; 2) provide you with smoking-cessation drug treatment and professional support and counseling during the withdrawal period; and/or 3) refer you to an intensive smoking cessation program administered by a specialist. Q: I smoke, and I want to quit. But I've heard so much about how people gain weight when they quit, I'm concerned this will happen to me. What's the story? A: It's true that smokers tend to weigh 6 to 10 pounds less than nonsmokers, possibly because nicotine appears to increase the body's metabolic rate -- the speed with which it converts food to energy. After quitting, a smoker's metabolism returns to a more normal rate, burning fewer calories. New nonsmokers also tend to eat more, for a variety of reasons. In any event, weight gain after stopping smoking is typically small and well worth the advantages to your heart and lungs from stopping smoking. By the way, a person who stops smoking and then gains a lot of weight should consider that other factors besides stopping smoking -- such as emotional stress -- may be causing the gain. Your doctor can offer you a number of ways to start quitting smoking and offer you the type of support you need. Q: I know that smoking is bad for a person's health. Just how bad is it? A: About as bad as it could get. Smoking is one of the most important causes of disease and is responsible for at least one out of every five deaths in the United States. Compared to nonsmokers, smokers have 10 times the risk of getting lung cancer -- and twice the risk of dying from heart disease. Smoking also causes chronic lung disease -- chronic bronchitis and emphysema -- which can be fatal. But that's not all. As research continues, the list of diseases associated with smoking keeps growing longer. That list now includes stroke, peptic ulcer, osteoporosis, and cataracts, as well as cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, pancreas, kidney, bladder, uterus, cervix -- and possibly also leukemia and cancer of the breast, prostate, and colon. In addition, diabetics who smoke increase their risk of kidney disease. Smoking can interfere with the healing of wounds and fractures. And it increases facial wrinkling, making a person look older than he or she really is. ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Take care and have a great week! Blair support@quitsmokingsupport.com QuitSmokingSupport.com http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to nosmoke-unsubscribe@listbot.com Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb