Stop Smoking

How passive smoking hurts
Research shows that non-smokers who inhale second-hand smoke suffer many of the diseases of active smoking.

World No Tobacco Day: The dangers of passive smoking
31 May is globally known as World No-Tobacco Day. Smoking is the single largest preventable cause of premature death, disability and disease.

Passive smoking can kill you
Passive smoking basically means breathing in other people's smoke. If you spend eight hours in a smoke-filled room, it is as if you have smoked 36 cigarettes.

Smoking: what you don’t know
Yes, we know you know: smoking ups risk for lung cancer and heart disease. But cot death? Damaged sperm? Tobacco use is a total onslaught on you and yours.

10 irritating smokers' habits
Many smokers feel they are being singled out for selective punishment. Here's why they may be to blame themselves.

Switch curbs smokers' craving
Blocking a neuropeptide receptor in the brain may be one way to quickly lessen the desire for a cigarette, a new study suggests.

Passive smoking
The health risks associated with passive smoking are generally less well known than those of direct smoking – but they have been proved beyond a doubt

Protect your children from smoke
If a woman falls pregnant and she is a smoker, she should stop smoking for the nine months that she is pregnant. Tobacco can have terrible effects on an unborn child.

Third-hand smoke
Toxins linger even after a cigarette's stubbed out. Meet tobacco's new baddie: third-hand smoke.

My neighbour smokes me out
So what can you do if your neighbour and her friends smoke on their stoep and it all blows into your cottage? See what CyberShrink advises.