NYC Sees The Benefits When People Stop Smoking - News Aura

New York City Smoking

New York City has seen a decline in the number of smoke related deaths, as numbers of smokers in the city have dropped. Cardiovascular disease is down 27%, cancer is down 9%, and respiratory disease is down 12%.

Health Department Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley says “Smoking still kills more than 7,000 New Yorkers each year, and thousands more will suffer smoking-induced strokes, heart attacks, debilitating lung diseases and cancers. It’s never too late to quit smoking. We want to help smokers to do just that.”

Did you know that there are benefits when you decide to give up smoking? For starters, there are a lot of hazardous factors that may cause death and can’t be prevented such as alcohol abuse, drug abuse, accidents, and diseases that are not 100% treatable, apart from all of this factors, cause of death will be prevented when you stop smoking. Once you quit smoking. More years will be added to your life. Most people know about all of the harmful effects of smoking but sometimes especially when you have been doing the habit almost half of your life, the compulsion to smoke is really very, very irresistible. Even if we know all the benefits that we would get once we stop smoking, quitting is really not that easy. It’s always easier said than done.

The good thing is even if you’re having a hard time quitting the smoking habit; it will be a good start to acknowledge the fact that smoking is bad for your health. This acknowledgement may lead to the possibilities of taking steps to gradually stop smoking. Even if you haven’t officially committed yourself at least you’re open to the idea of quitting to smoke.

There are a lot of ways to stop smoking. All you need is a lot of determination and self-discipline. Finding out about all the health problem’s and diseases that smoking can cause you might be a helpful step for stopping. Smoking may cause cervical cancer in women, for pregnant moms this can cause premature birth, low birth weight, and also miscarriages. It may be the cause of impotence for smoking men, other health problems include strokes, heart diseases, lung cancer, pulmonary diseases and osteoporosis, brittleness of the bones which results to higher susceptibility to fractures. Your taste, sense of smell and breathing will also be affected by smoking.

Physiological and physical dependence to smoking is caused by the nicotine in tobacco or cigarettes. You might be determined to stop but the desire to smoke will always be stronger making it very hard to resist. It is explained to be a complex form of smoking addiction. Unpleasant withdrawal effects are experienced when smoking is stopped and sometimes it becomes the reason for continuing the habit all over again. Breathing secondhand smoke may also cause potential health risks. Non-smokers who are living with people who smoke will increase their risk of having lung cancer and heart diseases by 25%.

Think of all the benefits you will gain when you stop smoking for good. First of all, it will be granted the pleasure of living a longer life and improve the quality of your health. You’ll have more money to save and because smoking is the cause of damage and wrinkled skin, you will start to look better too.

Support and encouragement from family and friends will make it much easier for you to stop smoking especially smokers who seek professional help. They will have much higher chances of successfully quitting to smoke than smokers with willpower to depend alone.

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E-Cigarettes Ads Claiming They Help People Stop Smoking Are Illegal: FDA - AboutLawsuits.com

Published: September 10th, 2010 • Comments: 4

Federal regulators are warning electronic cigarette manufacturers that marketing claims that suggest the devices help people quit smoking are unfounded and illegal. 

The FDA issued warning letters to five electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) makers on Thursday, in the latest move in an ongoing battle between FDA and the burgeoning industry regarding the agency’s right to regulate the devices. The letters were sent to E-CigaretteDirect LLC, Ruyan America Inc., Gamucci America (Smokey Bayou Inc.), E-Cig Technology Inc. and Johnson’s Creek Enterprises LLC. In some cases, the companies were also warned that they had poor manufacturing standards as well.

E-Cigarettes are battery-powered devices, usually shaped like a pen, cigarette or cigar, which heat up a flavored nicotine solution when the user inhales. The resulting vapors are inhaled in the same manner as smoking a cigarette.

The warning letters state that all five companies have run ads claiming that their products can be used to help quit smoking. The FDA has determined that the liquid in E-cigarettes is a drug and that the E-cigarettes themselves are drug-delivery devices, which the manufacturers dispute. The FDA says in its letters that it is illegal for the manufacturers to claim their drugs can be used as a smoking cessation treatment without FDA approval first. The agency says the companies have conducted no clinical trials or shown scientific evidence supporting their claims.

The FDA has said that it has not had the opportunity to evaluate e-cigarettes for safety or effectiveness, and that limited laboratory studies have raised concerns about the manufacturing process and quality control processes that the FDA says appears to be “substandard or non-existent.” The federal regulatory agency has also indicated that E-cigarettes contain toxins and carcinogens.

In addition to the warning regarding the claims that the devices can aid people to stop smoking, the FDA also warned Johnson Creek Enterprises that it found significant deficiencies in its manufacturing process, and that the company did not appear to have any quality control or testing procedures as required by the FDA. Johnson Creek makes Smoke Juice, a liquid used to refill E-cigarette cartridges.

The FDA also warned E-Cig Technology that it is marketing the erectile dysfunction drug, tadalafil, and the weight loss drug, rimonabant, illegally as refill cartridges for e-cigarettes. Rimonabant has not been approved for use in the U.S.

The FDA’s jurisdiction has been challenged in court by E-cigarette manufacturers. The agency has been stopping shipments of E-cigarettes, a Chinese invention, at the borders for examination, which has developed into an ongoing legal battle.

E-Cigarettes are sold mostly at mall kiosks and through the internet. The FDA is also concerned that the devices appear to be directly marketed to young people, do not contain any health warnings, and are currently virtually unregulated. They come in flavors such as bubblegum, chocolate, and mint.

Public health experts expressed concern that the cigarettes could increase nicotine addiction in young people, and that they are being marketed as being safer than they really are.

Tags: Cigarette, E-Cigarette, Electronic Cigarette

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