Quit Smoking Press

Welcome to Quit Smoking Press, your one-stop source for smoking cessation news. It is not easy to stop smoking. Each year about 35 million people try to quit smoking, based on an estimate by the American Cancer Association. However, only 7 percent of those who try to quit smoking actually succeed in their effort.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, tobacco smoking causes more than 5 million deaths annually around the world. Many programs promise successful tips on how to quit smoking. Realistically, it takes a serious commitment from a smoker to stop the habit.

We provide the latest information on efforts to stop smoking. Quit Smoking Press provides articles on the methods used to quit smoking, including reviews, opinions and more. Topics include:

• Why is smoking so difficult to quit?
• Nicotine patch: reviews, opinions, etc.
• Electronic cigarettes: Do they work? How do they work?
• Smoking cessation medication including Chantix in the United States and Champix in the United Kingdom.
• How to quit smoking naturally.

There are numerous reasons to quit smoking. In the United States, tobacco use is attributed to one in five deaths annually. There are nearly 50,000 tobacco-related deaths of people who never smoked attributed to exposure to secondhand smoke. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, on average a smoker will die 13 to 14 years earlier than a nonsmoker.

Despite decades of anti-smoking campaigns, smoking remains a serious concern with thousands of new smokers taking up the habit each year. According to the CDC, there are nearly 47 million tobacco users in the United States. Everyday approximately 3,500 people between the ages of 12 and 17 years of age smoke their first cigarette. Nearly 900 people under the age of 18 make smoking a daily habit. Approximately 2,200 adults over the age of 18 begin smoking everyday.

Nearly 70 percent of smokers actually want to quit. Nearly 50 percent of smokers have attempted to quit during the last year. States collect nearly $26 billion from tobacco taxes, but only spend 2 percent of that on tobacco control programs. Quit Smoking Press is your home for that latest news on efforts to curb tobacco use and methods to achieve that goal.

Smoking is difficult to quit because of the nicotine in tobacco. It is the nicotine in tobacco that is addictive. Each cigarette contains approximately 10 milligrams of nicotine. A smoker actually inhales about 1 to 2 milligrams of nicotine from each cigarette. The rest is either exhaled before anything can be absorbed or not inhaled at all. Nicotine is one of more than 4,000 chemicals in cigarettes, many of these chemicals are poisonous in certain amounts. Some of these include tar, carbon monoxide and nitrosamines.

The nicotine patch, electronic cigarettes and smoking cessation medications all attempt to curb the desire to smoke. It is important to realize that smoking is not an easy habit to stop. Support is needed along with a desire to stop and up-to-date information on what works and what doesn’t. Quit Smoking Press is your first step towards breaking the habit.