Archive for March, 2006


Chile Passes Anti-Smoking Laws – Statistics

Another country doing the right thing I’m glad to see! Chilean legislators approved a new anti-smoking law on Tuesday in a major step toward cutting the habit in a country where more than 40 percent of the people smoke. Chile’s lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, approved the law after more than a year of [...]

Quitting or Stopping Smoking with Nicotine Fading

Another effective approach for weaning yourself off of nicotine is called “nicotine fading.” It involves progressively switching to cigarette brands with lower and lower nicotine levels before quitting altogether — a typical schedule is to switch once a week for 3 weeks to brands with 30%, 60%, and then 90% less nicotine than you started [...]

Still Want to Smoke with Coffee or Alcohol/Achohol?

Things like alchohol and coffee are known as triggers, things that we associate with the act of smoking, so when we do these things we wish to smoke. Sensation seeking traits are often linked together. Common triggers can be : After a Meal After Sex In a Traffic Jam With Alchohol With Coffee After Excercise [...]

Students Vote to Ban Smoking – Edmonton University of Alberta

Students at the University of Alberta voted in favour of bringing in a controversial smoking ban that could eventually force smokers off the university campus before they light up. While the vote would need support from university administration for the ban to be passed, 60 per cent of the undergraduate student voters voted to ban [...]

Smoking is No Longer ‘Cool’ In New York

A new study on smoking has found that fewer school-goers in the city of New York are hooked to the vice capable of destroying the lungs in the long-term. Only 11 percent of high school students in the city last year reported to be smokers as against 23 percent in 1997. State officials credited the [...]