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The Truth About Smokers 'Concentration Con'

Smokers make many excuses for not quitting. One of them is the 'concentration con'. How many times have you heard a smoker say, 'I'd like to quit, but it helps me concentrate'. Maybe you've said it yourself ?In reality, smoking doesn't help concentration from a medical viewpoint. So the idea that smoking helps concentration is just a perception, or an imagined positive reason for not quitting.It's true that withdrawal symptoms, starting not long after your last cigarette, cause feelings of irritability and restlessness. These feelings started because of cigarettes, and it's strange that another cigarette should be the way to relieve them.In fact, smoking makes concentration much harder, not easier. Although another cigarette temporarily relieves... read full article > >

The Hardest Habit to Break

For nonsmokers, quitting smoking may seem like a no-brainer. It is bad for your health, can cause heart disease and lung cancer, gives you bad breath, can cause cancer of the throat or mouth, can cause emphysema, accelerates the aging process and causes wrinkles, turns fingernails and teeth yellow, and can lead to a dangerously low birth weight in babies of smoking mothers. With all this evidence to show the reasons to quit, why is it so hard to do it?Quitting smoking is arguably one of the hardest habits to break. For smokers, quitting is not just a matter of piling up the evidence against the habit. And in most cases willpower is not enough either. This is where most... read full article > >