Mind Over Matter: Smoking Cigarettes, A Force of Habit

If you want to stop smoking, you have to defeat your mind and not your body. Smoking Cessation is About Habit Cessation The common belief about smoking over the last 50 years has been smokers are physically addicted to tobacco, particularly nicotine. While it is true...

Closet Smokers and Their Burden of Secrecy

Despite the fact that smoking is still widely prevalent and Big Tobacco company hasn’t relinquished the will to continue marketing its products, cigarettes have actually become quite taboo in recent years. Whereas they were a status symbol in the 1950’s and 60’s...

Why Do Doctors Claim That Smoking Is Addictive?

There are has been an increasingly large divide developing in the medical community surrounding the concept that smoking is an addiction. Some doctors and scientists; such as researchers at the University of Tel Aviv, claim that smoking is merely a habit and that...