Someone you know, perhaps even you, need to quit smoking. You understand the dangers and realize there is not one cell in your body that is unaffected by cigarettes and/or snuff. You even understand that no one in your immediate vicinity is safe from the fumes of your cigarettes or the fumes you exhale. Yet...you find it difficult to quit. You are not alone. Statistics from 2004 indicated that...

As a dietitian, the three most common questions which smokers ask me about diet and smoking, are: (1) Can a diet compensate for health damage caused by smoking? (2) What should I eat if I smoke? (3) If I quit, what type of diet is best to prevent weight gain? (1) CAN A DIET COMPENSATE FOR SMOKING? No diet or eating-plan, no matter how nutritious, can neutralise the health damage caused by...

Have you ever coped with the idea of stopping smoking for good? If you've tried to stop smoking before but just ended up buying cigarettes again and again you're in the same boat as I was a few months ago. You aren't the only one trying to quit smoking forever. There are millions of people world wide that are struggling to kick this nasty habit out of their lives. Lets have a look of why you...

Like millions of others, you are a cigarette smoker, and as such you are probably well aware of the difficulty of quitting smoking. I'd have a bet with you that, dozens of times, you've told yourself, and those around you, that you're going to stop smoking. "Right, thats it, I'm quitting, I'll start today. Oh, well tomorrow then, when I've finished this pack. Hang on, mother-in-law's visiting...

We're all affected by images of Hollywood stars, models and celebrities smoking - off-duty or otherwise. Whether that means that individual celebrities have a moral responsibility to us all to shun smoking in their working and private lives is another matter. What is arguably more interesting than any of that is why on earth celebrities choose to smoke at all? Hollywood stardom and...