Talk:Smoking

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Hi, I just wanted to add to the article. According to a World Health Organization study, First Report on Global Tobacco Use, released early in 2008, one in every 10 women in India smokes or chews tobacco. In a nationally representative study of smoking in India, conducted by the New England Journal of Medicine in February, more than 62% of women smokers in India will die in their productive years, compared with 38% of non-smokers. More than 20% of these are at risk of contracting respiratory diseases, 12% are vulnerable to heart attacks, and 9% to tuberculosis, the study states.

Not only that, they are also lighting up early -- a study done by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in 2006, on 6,000 students across 32 schools in Delhi and Chennai, showed that 20% of the girls in class VI are lighting up.

[edit] Do anti- smoking ads increase smoking among the people who smoke??

According to the British Medical Journal apparently all those grotesque ads about anti smoking only increase the number of people wo are already non-smokers, but the guys who do smoke have increased their smoking even though the ads were pretty gruesome. In other words, overt, direct, visually explicit anti-smoking messages did more to encourage smoking than any deliberate campaign Marlboro or Camel could have come up with. So does subliminal advertising work, well obviously it does! One of the reasons is that subliminal advertising doesnt show any visible logos, the smokers arent consciously aware that they are watching an advertising message, and as a result they let their guard down. Another explanation lies in the carefully manufactured associations that the tobacco industry has established over the past few decades. In 1997, in preparation for the ban on tobacco advertising that was about to come into place int he UK, Silk cut, a popular Brit tobacco brand, began to position its logo against a background of purple silk in every ad that it ran. it didnt take long for consumers to associate this plain swath of purple silk with the silk cut logo, and eventually with the brand itself. so when the ad bans happened and the logo was no longer permitted on ads or billboards, the company simply created highway billboards thatdidnt say a word about silk cut or ciggis but merely showcased logo free awaths of purple silk. and guress what? shortly after, a research study revealed that an astonishing 98 percent of consumers identified those billboards as having something to do with silk cut, although most were unable to say why... in other words, the tobacco companies efforts to link innocent images whether of the american west, purple silk or sports cars with smoking in our subconscious minds have paid off big time. they have succeeded in bypassing governments regulations by creating stimuli powerful enough to replace traditional advertising. and infact they've even managed to enlist the help of governments all oevr the world by banning tobacco ads , govts are unwittingly helping to promote the deadly behaviour they seek to eliminate.

[edit] Some strange ways I've heard of to quit smoking

This is from an email i recieved some time ago.. Some of the herbs i've never even heard of...

Question- I'm trying to quit smoking..(again) I can remember grandma putting coltsfoot in her pipe back in the day but, what else can i use or mix up with to take the edge off?

Ans- Coltsfoot will make you cough your lungs out - don't use that.Mullein leaf is nice, if it's not too dry.

Ans- If you can, try acupuncture, and possibly Chinese herbal medicine at the same time. Then, make sure they insert tiny seeds, taped over acupoints in your ears. That helped me quit smoking after 25 years.

Ans- dried comfrey leaf added into the mix is a rural Southern USA tradition.

Ans- Howie Brounstein has information on creating smoking mixtures-I am not saying it will help you quit, but for folks who want to forage for other smoking possibilities, he has rather a bit of information-just punch this info up on your search engine... I did give a friend some mullein to drink as a tea which markedly soothed his smoker's cough, he said it really supported his breathing in general. If you take it as a tea, strain out the fine hairs! Mullein is a wonderful ally. When I was a youngun we would go out at night and make a raid at the local nursery and collect peppermint for smoking. It was a hoot until one night we got the old Chevy Biscayne stuck out in the field.

Ans- As someone who is in the pangs of quitting too, lol, I feel your pain. What I have found that works for me is Indian Tobacco. There is something in it called Lobelia. Ask at a heath food store for the liquid form. I found that a few drops mixed into a drink helps more then simply taking a dropper full alone. It doesn't really have a taste to it when added to your herbal teas. The hardest part for me (so far) is finding something to do with my hands. I honestly believe that bringing your hand up to your face every so often is the hardest habit to break. I've tried the straw trick, didn't work. I've tried the candy trick, didn't work and I really don't like the idea of all that candy. Right now I'm trying sour tooth picks. The hard part is getting something sour enough to stick to the pick.