The good news for smokers is that Stoptober is here, which is a sign of encouragement, but this puts pressure on you to give up. Rather than dance to the beat of this NHS led campaign, MHN spoke to a trained professional for advice on how to realistically quit smoking at a reasonable pace.

Zac Efron is trying to quit smoking by replacing regular cigarettes with an electronic cigarette. ‘The High School Musical’ star has kicked tobacco in favour of fake cigarettes, which uses nicotine to help quell smokers cravings, reports contactmusic.com According to Page Six reports Zac was seen smoking an electronic cigarette at a party for the new Richard Gere Movie, Arbitrage in New York on Wednesday, September 12. “He was puffing…

Non-smokers, who spend time with smokers, are damaging their everyday memory, warn researchers from Northumbria University, after exploring the relationship between passive smoking and everyday memory problems. The findings of the research were published in the online edition of Journal Addiction. Dr Tom Heffernan and Dr Terence O’Neil both researchers at the Collaboration for Drug and Alcohol group by Northumbria University have showcased the fact that second-hand smoke can have…

Alcohol related damage can cost a Scottish person up to £615 as per a charitable institution Alcohol Focus based on Scotland. Various parameters like health service, policy, social care, loss of productive capacity in 32 authority areas have been taken into consideration before publishing the information. The institution produced the results head of its annual licensing conference and experts believe that there is a need for local licensing boards to…

UK smokers are being urged to give up cigarettes next month in what is dubbed as “Stoptober”. This mass quitting attempt is quite unique and it is hoped to set a realistic challenge for eight million smokers in England. Health experts realise that there are a lot of people who want to quit smoking and just need encouragement. According to Chief Medical Officer Professor Dame Sally Davies, “That’s what Stoptober…

The shape of your beer glass affects how soon you drown your beers. Researchers at the University of Bristol observed and filmed a group of 159 men and women who drank beers and soft drinks as a part of the study. It was found in the study that people drinking beer off curvy glasses were faster to drink down their beers compared to people drinking off straight, narrow glasses.

Teenage smokers put themselves in early danger of heart problems. According to a research conducted at Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel, Switzerland, smokers between the ages of 8 to 20 have substantial artery damage which can lead to heart problems. Julia Dratva, MD, MPH of the research institute, and her colleagues studied 283 people in the age group of 8 to 20 and measured their artery walls….

Smoking marijuana in teenage can cause persisting decline in intelligence and mental function right into adulthood found a decade-long study in more than thousand New Zealanders. Researchers found that adolescents who smoked marijuana at least four days a week dropped their IQ by an average of eight points between the ages of 13 and 38 years.

According to Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), one in every 20 hospital beds is occupied by someone with smoking-related illnesses. In a single day, 1260 adults over the age of 35 are admitted in hospital for smoking-related disease. In 2010 and 2011, 460,000 hospital admissions due to smoking were marked in England alone. Of these hospital admissions, 126,200 had a respiratory disease, 160300 had smoking-related cancer such as…

A research published in the journal, Science Translational Medicine, claimed, the scientists have invented an injection that can make one immune to pleasures provided by nicotine, including physical effects like relaxation and lowering of the heart rate, and hence help to keep people away from smoking. The vaccine genetically engineers an antibody that filters out the nicotine after it enters blood. The antibody is then replicated by the body and…