Testimonial – this is a contributed article from Susie… I quit for seven years between 1996 and 2003.  I had a baby in Jan 2006 (I did not smoke during pregnancy).  In May 2006 I started smoking again.  With the help of patches I quit in Feb 2007, but started again in May 2007.  With the help of pastilles I quit between Oct 2008 and May 2009.  Finally I...

A new law was enacted to raise the prices of cigarettes to $11.00 in New York and will be effective July 1. Fortunately I already kicked that habit, but for those nicotine addicts in New York, if they won’t decide to quit smoking, well they will be a lot poorer trying to maintain their kick of nicotine. Unless of course if the smoker is filthy rich, he might escape...

Some people I know who successfully stop smoking gained weight after living a life free from nicotine and I always get two (2) common answers if I ask them the reason why they gained weight. First, the food has never tasted better and their appetite has increase dramatically and controlling the urge to eat is very difficult, resulting in obesity and weight problems....

I received an email the other day from a friend and I was really shocked to see a two year old boy from Indonesia smoking 40 cigarettes a day. His name is Ardi Rizal, puffing away 40 cigarettes which his parents supply him. According to Ardi’s mother, if they don’t give him any cigarette, the child gives the wildest tantrums you could imagine, he screams and...

There came a time when I was smoking heavily that I couldn’t imagine life without cigarettes. I was totally hooked and after failing to quit several times, I thought I was going to be chained to this misery forever. I was smoking a pack a day and you could just imagine the money I was throwing away (to make tobacco companies rich) and the carbon monoxide and tar...