Smoking

A new study has uncovered dire new findings about cigarette smoking.

It seems Michael Douglas' battle with tongue cancer wasn't enough to get his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones to quit smoking.

The government’s smoking tax has been criticised as a cash grab, but after losing her grandmother to cancer sticks, Zoe Arnold explains why taxation is one of the most effective tools in the fight against smoking. My Grandmother was the epitome of elegance in her youth. We have a picture of her in her 20s: […]

The head of anti-smoking authority Quit Victoria has echoed calls to breath-test pregnant women to check if they are smoking after Britain’s healthcare body successfully introduced the scheme. Carbon monoxide breath tests, enforced by Britain’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, are proposed to be administered by midwives at antenatal appointments. The new measures […]

Chrissie Swan has opened her own can of worms after admitting to smoking while seven months’ pregnant. The radio host and mother-of-two said she tried to quit the habit when she found out she was pregnant with her third child but found it too hard to go “cold turkey”. The 39-year-old said the stress of […]

Can’t butt out? Here’s how the stars gave up smoking. “In Asian studies, the quit rates are as high as 40 per cent for serious first-time quitters who go cold turkey,” says Professor Matthew Peters from the Australian Lung Foundation. “However, if you continue to keep smoking after that, you need to try other strategies […]

Want to kick the habit, but don’t know where to start? We get you off on the right track. Be patient and persevere. Recent research has found it takes, on average, 66 days to form a habit without thinking. Wear a loose elastic band aroundyour wrist. Whether it’s a yearning for junk food or the […]

Want to cut your risk of getting cancer? Try these three easy steps! Want to butt out? See www.quitsmokingjournals.com – full of great tips like massaging your ears to cull cravings, or calling cigarettes “sickerettes”. plus stories from ex-smokers with lung cancer. More vegies, less meat. More than 540g of red meat per week increases […]

Karyn and Richard Shine wish to make a personal plea to Aussie parents who smoke. “Please don’t smoke near your kids. It’s not fair. You have taken up the habit, but your children haven’t. “If you light up near them, they breathe the smoke as well. You’re putting their health at risk because you choose […]