glowing, snakelike substance he saw through his microscope while inspecting lung tissue from a lung cancer patient who smoked. And what did the mystery substance turn out to be? A fiber composed of cellulose acetate the material used to make cigarette filters. The fiber glowed under the microscope because it was coated with tobacco tar which contains more than 3,500 different chemicals at least 40 of which are known to cause cancer.Dr. Pauly and his colleagues followed up this find with studies testing 12 popular brands of cigarettes manufactured by six U.S. tobacco companies. The studies revealed that fibers are indeed released from cigarette filters and subsequently can be inhaled to lodge indefinitely in smokers' lung tissue.
doesn't break down easily and because smokers have a very difficult time clearing foreign substances from their lungs. Once embedded, the filter bits provide a bad vehicle for delivering a concentrated dose of tobacco tar directly to lung tissue. The bottom line? The very substance created in response to the call for a "safer" cigarette actually has the potential to enhance cancer risk. Filters merely create a false sense of security; they are not the answer for smokers who wish to decrease their cancer risk. Quitting the cigarette habit remains the only choice.
the 1980s, a new study found. Such deaths increased from 26 per 100,000 to 155 per 100,000, said one of the researchers, Dr. Michael J. Thun of the American Cancer Society.Since 1960 the use of filtered cigarettes has increased dramatically which tends to verify the above study.
Psychology.(Published by The M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas). Smokers trying to kick the habit may have a far better chance of success if they let the clock tell them when they may have a cigarette. In a study, the strategy proved twice as successful in the long term as quitting cold turkey or allotting oneself a certain number of cigarettes per day. The clock strategy assigns smokers specific times of day for lighting up.They follow a schedule with longer and longer intervals between cigarettes before they quit altogether. "They're still going to get to smoke, they're just not going to get to smoke when they want to smoke," said researcher Paul Cinciripini.By repeatedly putting their nicotine urges on hold for manageable periods, smokers gain practice and self-confidence for when they quit altogether, said Cinciripini, director of the smoking cessation program at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Three months ago I smoked 3 packs/day. Today I am cigarette free! It is hard to believe how easy it was. I feel like I have been reborn. For 50 years I have been a smoker. I tried the gum, the patch, hypnosis and anything I could find. Nothing solved the problem. The patch makes it seem easy....at first. The problem is that the addiction remains. Go off the patch, and you are usually back to square one. Statistics reveal that only a small percentage are able to quit with only the patch ot gum. When I read the above article I began to think.....one doesn't begin by smoking 2-3 packs per day. One gradually builds the addiction. It made sense to get rid of the addiction exactly the same way you developed it....... little by little.
running in the background, which would alert you when it was time for a cigarette? It simply goes "ding" ten times when you should smoke another. If you want to watch, it shows exactly how many minutes until your next cigarette. Each new day the software will reduce your allotted cigarettes by only one each day. Could you survive on one less cigarette per day? Of course you could.The software is only about 45k. Downloads in about 10 seconds (at 28k baud). It will run as well on an original IBM PC as a new 400MHz Pentium. I used it as a background task in my windows 98.One initializes the software by telling it:
What hour you begin to smoke each day. How many hours you are awake.
the alerts after you retire and begins the next day when you awaken, those people. You can run one copy on the home PC, and one on the PC at the office. When you leave the PC you tell the software. When you return you tell it how many cigarettes you smoked while away and it readjusts the days allocation.Seven patients are using this software. Maria started 28 days ago. She just called. "I am down to 12/day from 40. I'm gonna make it!". Only one has dropped out. One Must WANT to quit which is not the case with many smokers. With almost no effort you can regain a glorious life free of the disgusting, killer addiction. You can get the stop smoking e-book: zdnet.com Home | Shop Products & Services | Phone Sessions |
