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and practical, reality-based tips on how
to help your teens avoid smoking.
And, in the Mining Co. 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 Heart Disease
You may think you've heard it before, but there's more to the issue.
Take an in-depth look at the relationship between smoking and heart disease,
and the truly compelling benefits that quitting smoking has on your heart's
health and your life, from Dr. S. Sivasubramanian, M.D., your Guide for Heart
Disease.
Smoking-Related Cancers: Not Just Lung Cancer Anymore
You hear about lung cancer in conjunction with smoking. . . but
you might find a few more reasons to quit when you hear about all the OTHER
cancers that smoking causes in this report from your Cancer Guide, Barry
S. Tepperman, MD.
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.
A
Healing Approach to Quitting Smoking
Celebrate your commitment to quit -- and add your best wishes for
her November 19th birthday - - with Healing Guide Phylameana lila Desy. Phyl
is sponsoring a drawing to give away a free Certified Healing Bear to a lucky
"quitter" who enters the contest at her site.
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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