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and practical, reality-based
tips on how to help your teens avoid smoking.
And, in the About.com spirit
of offering you a truly uncommon perspective on today's
issues, explore the civil liberties issues around the
antismoking movement and the surprisingly unsuccessful
efforts to get antismoking legislation through
Congress.
Quit
Smoking Now and For Good
Thinking about
quitting for the Smokeout, or have you already quit and want
to stay that way? Your Smoking Cessation Guide Christine
Rowley is your best source of information and support,
annotated links to thousands of websites, and dozens of
articles to help, including:
Smoking: The Little Known Links to Thyroid
Disease
Thyroid disease -- which can cause lifelong weight gain,
depression, and even serious eye problems -- affects more
than 13 million Americans. Did you know that thyroid disease
may be triggered -- or made far worse or more difficult to
treat -- by smoking? Find out more from your Thyroid Guide,
Mary Shomon.
Smoking
and Pregnancy
Smoking during
pregnancy causes so many problems -- including risks of
miscarriage, prematurity, low birthweight, and more -- that
pregnant smokers owe it to their babies and themselves to
quit. Pregnancy Guide and certified doula Robin Elise Weiss
reviews the reasons to quit, several safe and effective ways
for pregnant women to stop smoking, and the immediate
benefits of quitting for both baby and mother.
Are
Your Baby Dreams Going Up in Smoke?
Does smoking have an
impact on your ability to conceive that little bundle of
joy? Asbolutely, says Tracy Morris, your Guide for
Infertility, who offers some compelling reasons to put away
the cigarettes before you start knitting the baby
booties.
The
Women's Health Perspective
Women smokers face a
greater risk of cervical cancer, premature menopause,
infertility, osteoporosis, and heart disease. Women's Health
Guide, Tracee Cornforth explores the unique health risks
encountered by women who smoke.
Alternative
Medicine Approaches to Help Quit Smoking
Acupuncture? Herbs?
Can They Help You Stop Smoking? Alternative Medicine Guide
Terri Ramacus takes you on an exploration of the holistic
and alternative ways to help you quit smoking.
Smoking
and its Effects on Asthmatics, Including Children
Second-hand smoke is
one thing, but what about when it's your children...and
YOU'RE the smoker? Giving you yet another reason to quit
smoking, Asthma Guide John Rhoades looks at what happens to
asthmatic children of smokers, and asthmatics who smoke
themselves.
We
Knew Them Only a Little While
Your Guide to
Nursing on the Net, Erika Lowndes, RN, C. takes a compelling
personal look at patients she has cared for, before tobacco
took them.
Stopping
Teen Smoking
Parents know how
to stop teen smoking. All the Surgeon General had to do was
ask them. Denise Witmer, your About.com Guide to Parenting
Teens, offers the real story and sound advice on how to keep
teens from starting, or help them decide to quit.
Tumor-Causing,
Teeth-Staining, Nasty
Habit
Is nicotine as habit-forming as they say it is? Your
Substance Abuse Guide, Leslie Franzblau, explores tobacco's
addictive nature.
The
Antismoking Legislative Battle
In 1997- 1998, of
the 88 bills Congress introduced to reduce the use or sale
of tobacco products, only 3 made it through Congress to the
President. Find out why smoking legislation has such a hard
road from Robert Longley, your Guide for US Government
Info/Resources
Clean-Lunged
Crusaders
They're the Carrie
Nations of the '90s, gimlet-eyed puritans with their sights
on tobacco and your best interests in mind -- whether you
like it or not. Take a look at the antismoking crusade --
and its stop smoking efforts like the current Great American
Smokeout -- with J.D. Tucille, your Civil Liberties
Guide.
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