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What Controls Your Smoking Habit?

Your smoking habit is controlled more by the subconscious part of your mind than your conscious mind. This is why when you make a conscious decision to quit, it doesn't usually work.

Blue Angels

The definition of the term 'Blue Angels' from the About.com Alcoholism / Substance Abuse site.

Researchers Question 'Healthy' Drinking Benefits

Studies which have reported that people who drink alcohol moderately have fewer heart attacks than those who abstain may have been flawed because the abstainers used in most of those studies were people who quit drinking for health or age reasons, according to an international team of researchers.

Stop Smoking - Tips To Not Gain Weight

Quitting smoking can sometimes bring on weight gain, which can deter smokers from trying to kick the habit.Changing your eating habits and exercising can help you maintain your weight while giving up cigarettes.

Wigging

Definition of the drug slang term 'Wigging' from the About.com Alcoholism / Substance Abuse glossary of drug street terms.

Laser Treatment To Quit Smoking - Will It Burn Your Skin?

Laser treatment to quit smoking is becoming more and more popular these days and this article will answer the questions you might have. The quit smoking laser is also sometimes known as laser acupuncture because it works in the same way by using pressure points all over the body to make you feel mor

Marijuana

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Stop Smoking Techniques - 7 Popular Methods

According to the CDC, an estimated, 20.8% of all adults (45.3 million people) smoke cigarettes in the United States. In 2004, Lung Cancer was responsible for more deaths than prostate, breast and colon cancer combined. ...

COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a blanket term used to describe a group of diseases that cause lung damage, including obstruction or narrowing of the airways and destruction of the air sacs within the lungs. The most common cause of COPD is smoking.

Stop Smoking Book - Source Of Smoking Cessation Information

Even though a lot of people wanted to stop their bad ways which is smoking because of the fact that many, and still increasing, people have had worst kinds of diseases due to smoking, can't really stop the habit. And a lot of people who does not smoke wonder as to why it is. Non-smokers do not

Aware Yourself About Alcohol And Drug Addiction Program

Alcohol and drug treatment programs have developed relatively more of precedent few decades. The first forms of alcohol and drug treatment were actually quite primitive compared to what is available today. In the dark ages it was thought that addictions were caused by demonic possession, which had m