Finding effective ways to quit smoking is not easy. Besides the powerful effects of toxic substances in tobacco or cigarette causing addiction, showing images of accumulated plaque in the carotid arteries as an adjunct therapy in smoking cessation program does not seem strong enough. Previous studies stated if the smoker showed ...

Recent study suggested that men who smoked more than 20 cigarettes a day seem to be experiencing impotence 40% higher than those who don't smoke. The researchers have found a strong relationship between the number of cigarettes smoked to the levels of difficulty achieving an erection. More than 8,000 men in Australia ...

Smoking in most people is an addiction that is not easy to eliminated. It doesn't only happen to healthy people, but also for someone who has a disease that is closely associated with the adverse effects of tobacco itself. Regardless of how hard to stop smoking, those who had experienced with cardiac ...

If you believed that your children was exposed to secondhand smoke, maybe you should check your child's hearing to doctors for audiologic testing. That's a new suggestion from the results of recent study reported in the Archives of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery for July issue. According to the findings, secondhand smoke increase ...

Smoking really bad for healthy people, moreover to individual with a disease, which may accelerated the mortality risk from their disease caused smoking effects. A new study results archived in the Journal of the American Medical Association on June issue found that smoking increase prostate cancer mortality. According to the findings, smoking ...

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a disease that can extend to the risk of chronic or acute ischemia, not only limited to severe pain. While this obstruction of peripheral arteries more common in men then women, but for cigarette smoker's women, the risk can increase significantly. This warning based on new findings ...

The research of negative effects from second hand smoke has been well established so far for many of health risks. From sleep problems in children, breathing problems, heart disease, kidney disease and many more, including increasing blood pressure. However, there is less study for blood pressure effect in children. Due to this, ...

If you are considered as second hand smoke, you must be careful. This is because some amounts of nicotine has reached your brain, even just one hour of exposure. Finally, this negative impact leading to the nonsmoker become smoker and nicotine addiction. The effects of smoke exposure to nonsmoker has has been ...

The smoking woman who will get pregnancy or had pregnancy should be stop their habit, because effects of smoking during early pregnancy may resulting congenital heart defect on the baby. Congenital heart defect itself might described as an error of structural in the heart formed during embryonic and fetal life. This suggestion ...

A new study adding more evidence that smoking also associated with amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a degenerative neurological disorder that causes decreased in size of body part, cell, organ, or tissue, and loss of voluntary muscular movement. Moreover, the findings said that early start of smoking, the risk of ALS risk ...

The relationship between smoking and breast cancer (BC) risk is remain unclear. Although, the carcinogen inside tobacco smoke may increase the risk of breast cancer, however, cigarette smoking also has antiestrogenic effects, which may reduce the risk for breast cancer. Due to this, the researchers initiated a review from the study cohort ...

The children who exposed with smoked from their parents not only affects to their child's lung infection, but also influence the blood pressure. According to current findings, this condition lead the children for having cardiovascular risk in their future life. With this findings, the authors of current study suggest the parents to ...

Another bad effects of smoking showed among patients with cancer who continue to smoke. According to recent findings, this situation leading to the patients had more severing in pain than those who quit or never smoked, and also it interferes more with their activities. Why people with cancer sometimes won't quit their ...

Meningococcal disease is infections caused by the bacterium Neisseria meningtidis or meningococcus which is a major cause of morbidity and mortality during childhood if untreated. In both developing and developed countries, invasive bacterial disease is a significant cause of pediatric mortality with most suspected organism included Streptococcus pneumonia, Nisseria meningitidis, and ...

Latest report from World Health Organization (WHO) researchers that published in The Lancet said that an estimated 600,000 or one of hundred passive smokers death a year. In their findings, WHO said that compared with other age-group, children are more heavily exposed to second-hand smoke and around 165,000 of them a ...

There is high concern among postoperative patients regarding to smoking effects. However, actual risk related to this point was lack of literature. Therefore, new study has been established recently and reported at the American Society of Anesthesiologists 2010 Annual Meeting. According to new findings, smokers will experience more frequent postoperative complications and leads ...

Obese smoker or smoker with higher body mass index (BMI) advised to stop smoke first then followed with weight loss or run it together. This suggestion based on new findings that said obese smoker who stop smoking really increased their weight afterward. The study looked at a cohort of 840 continuing and ...

In the previous study results has been suggested that selegiline (Eldepryl, an antidepressant drug that used to treat depression, Parkinson's disease, and dementi) in pill form could help smokers who trying to quit smoke by reducing nicotine cravings. However, from recent findings, compared with placebo patch, antidepressant patch showed no better ...

Although considerably low, however people who had migraine with aura (a perceptual disturbance experienced before a migraine headache) should be careful cause recent findings said that it increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease and hemorrhagic stroke. Published in August 25, 2010 in the BMJ, according to the authors of the ...

According to recent findings in August 6, 2010 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, there is increase risk gene expression in lung epithelium from people who exposure with tobacco smoke exposed even to the lowest level detection, suggesting that there is no threshold at which exposure ...

It was well known that smoking during pregnancy could increases the risk of infant with lower birth weight, miscarriage, and stillbirth. Moreover, according to new study reported in August issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, there is significantly higher in young adult with psychiatric disorder who exposed to cigarette smoke ...

Negative effects from smoking is not only for smoker itself, but also to those around them. Thousand dangerous substances both chemical and gas inside cigarettes that starting from nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, ammonia, naphtalene, hydrogen cyanide, acetone, methanol, arsenic, cadmium, DDT, vinyl chloride, and much more. Several studies has been ...

Preterm birth referred to premature infant from the birth. Usually less than 37 weeks of fetus age. As the risk factor to lead preterm birth have several items and remain unclear for exactly causes such as related to the race, stress, chronic hypertension, several form of diabetes, had preeclampsia with higher ...

Most risk factor for the causes of stroke is due to overweight, risen of LDL cholesterol, having high blood pressure, and smoking habits. Despite above factors, there is still unknown reason related to increased Stroke Belt to the incidence of stroke mortality for some region that looks so dominant. For example in ...

Even you can't stop for smoke and still finding best way to quit smoking, the important think you should consider in that situation is don't smoke at home or near the children. A recent study showed exposure tobacco smoke to the child and adolescent or become "passive smoker" could lead them ...

About 2 of 3 people that affected with active tuberculosis will have risk to dead. Recently known that affect of tuberculosis may go to the central nervous system such as meningnes; spinal cord or brain. Many reason why the patients fail to relief from this ...

Recently, heart attack that caused by coronary heart disease is the major cause of death in U.S. Another cause that give same contribution as coronary heart disease is angina. Patients with angina will have not enough blood, and become had the chest pain. According to the American Heart Association, it is nearly 450K ...

Colorectal cancer is cancer that starts in either the colon or the rectum. Recent prospective cohort study by Cancer Epidemology, Biomarkers & Prevention showed, long-term smoking (cigarette) may linked to increasing risk of colorectal cancer, even after controlling for screening and multiple other risk ...

Product marketing? Yes, of course. But, clinically NO!. New research published by journal of the American Association for Cancer Research in December 2009 showed, Chinese herbal cigarettes is addictive too. Moreover, it is not safer than common cigarettes. Stanton A. Glantz, Ph.D. from University of California, ...

Folate supplement is beneficial for pregnant women or become pregnant to prevent neurologic damage risk to her fetus, and other benefits such as reducing the risk of blindness. Folate is a water-soluble B vitamin that occurs naturally in food and very useful to body health. Several sources of folate including spinach, ...