Giving up nicotine can be a brutal experience that can include everything from physical symptoms, such as headache and nausea, to mood ... Read More
Smoking Cessation
What Happens to Your Body When You Finally Quit Smoking: A Complete Guide
When you quit smoking, your body begins to undergo a series of changes as it starts to repair the damage caused by smoking. Some of the ... Read More
What Are Quit-Smoking Programs and How Can They Help You?
Sometimes it really does "take a village" to help you meet life's challenges, and quitting smoking can be one of the toughest challenges out ... Read More
Ready To Quit Smoking? Find A Class To Help You
Despite more attempts, blacks are less successful at quitting smoking than white and Hispanic cigarette smokers. This could possibly be due ... Read More
Your Favorite Cigars Could Be Hurting You More Than You Think
Blacks suffer from lung cancer more than any other population group in the U.S. The percentage of Black men diagnosed with lung cancer each ... Read More
Juneteenth and Tobacco: Resistance and Resilience
Celebrate, Educate, and Agitate. These goals of Juneteenth, coined by Mitch Kachun, exemplify that the celebration of Juneteenth is as much ... Read More
This Exercise Gets Rid of Mucus in Your Chest
The pandemic has changed the timing of flu season, COVID variants and even allergy season. All of that is a cause for a lot of mucus ... Read More
5 Jobs that May Give You Heart Disease
Your job really may be bad for your health. A new study found a link between heart health – specifically heart disease and stroke – and ... Read More
Can Hypnotherapy Help You Stop Smoking?
When most people think of hypnosis, they think of a magician, dangling a pendulum in front of someone while saying, “You’re getting sleepy ... Read More
Trying to Quit Smoking? Here’s Why you Should Avoid Vapes
Smokers may think electronic cigarettes will help them quit, but a new study finds no evidence that it aids smoking cessation. Researchers ... Read More
Cigarette Sales Increased During COVID-19 Pandemic
We all know the dangers of smoking, especially for Blacks who are more likely to die from smoking-related complications than whites. Yet, ... Read More
Silver Lining Found in Pandemic: Fewer Teens Are Vaping
It turns out that the pandemic has reaped one unexpected benefit: As teens were kept home more often, their use of electronic cigarettes ... Read More