Ways to Stop Smoking...
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What's on the market... sure exp! got cheaper ways or not?
- Acupuncture
Cost: $30 for a half-hour treatment
Recommended length of treatment: Twice a week for six weeks
Total cost: $360
Possible side effects: Like other acupuncture treatments, if not performed by a trained practitioner, there may be slight bleeding and infections from needles.
- Nicotine gum
Cost: $20 to $30 for a box of 30 pieces
Recommended length of treatment: Chew on eight to 12 pieces of gum a day for 12 weeks. Take four to six pieces a day for the next two weeks, then one to three pieces a day for the last two weeks.
Total cost: About $900
Possible side effects: In the first few days users may suffer hiccups, sore throat, headaches, dizziness, mild indigestion and heartburn. This may be due to using too much gum, chewing in a continuous manner or swal- lowing too much nicotine.
- Nicotine inhaler
Cost: About $20 for 18 cartridges
Recommended length of treatment: Use six to 12 cartridges a day for eight weeks, then three to six a day for the next two weeks, and one to three a day for the last two weeks.
Total cost: About $660
Possible side effects: These include headaches, irritable or sore throat, mouth ulcers, dry mouth and cough.
- Nicotine patches
Cost: About $30 for a box of seven patches
Recommended length of treatment: One 15mg patch a day for eight weeks, then one 10mg patch a day for the next two weeks, and one 5mg patch a day for the last two weeks.
Total cost: $360
Possible side effects: Slight redness or itchiness where the patch is applied, which should disappear within two days or so.
- Nicotine lozenges
Cost: About $20 for a box of 36 lozenges
Recommended length of treatment: Take eight to 12 lozenges a day for three months and cut down slowly.
Total cost: About $500
Possible side effects: Three to four weeks after starting treatment, users may feel slight irritation in their throat and have excessive salivation. Increased salivation may also cause hiccups. Users with a history of indigestion may also experience slight indigestion and heartburn. Side effects can be overcome by sucking on the lozenges slowly. -
who said smoking can help to slim down
June 14, 2005
Cigarettes, fat, speed up ageing
LONDON - OBESITY and smoking make you age faster, researchers said yesterday.
The researchers found in tests that people who smoke cigarettes or are obese have shorter telomeres, which are the caps on chromosomes that prevent the chromosomes from fraying.
Telomeres shorten each time a cell divides, a reduction associated with ageing. Because of this, telomeres are thought to hold the secrets of the ageing process.
'Our findings suggest that obesity and cigarette smoking accelerate human ageing,' said Dr Tim Spector, of St Thomas' Hospital in London.
As telomeres get smaller, the chromosomes can become unstable and increase the risk of mutation.
'Obesity and cigarettes cause oxidative stress to increase and this cumulative damage over time causes the loss of these telomeres, which we believe is a marker of accelerative ageing and accounts for why these people get heart disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis and other age-related diseases,' Dr Spector said at a news conference.
Oxidative stress is damage to cells and DNA caused by free radicals - charged particles found in the environment and produced by processes in the body.
The difference between being obese and lean corresponded to 8.8 years of ageing. Being a current or former smoker equated to about 4.6 years and smoking a pack a day for 40 years corresponded to 7.4 years of ageing. -- REUTERS -
smoking is just another way of population control
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i hate smokers!
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but spore wans moreOriginally posted by poon cho tang:smoking is just another way of population control -
they want more people also no use
I find mrt getting more crowded... -
harlow~ smoking... why mrt nowOriginally posted by laurence82:they want more people also no use
I find mrt getting more crowded... -
tat day mi saw a man smoking in MRT... kao
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really.. u nvr show him ur croco mouth? tat will scare him offOriginally posted by sgboy2004:tat day mi saw a man smoking in MRT... kao
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I also saw ppl smoking in MRT station nia
Whatever happened to law and order.
People smoking in air-con places.... -
hmm howcum the pple working there nvr care oso deOriginally posted by deathscythe99:I also saw ppl smoking in MRT station nia
Whatever happened to law and order.
People smoking in air-con places....