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Quitting Smoking

What are the health risks of smoking tobacco?

Quitting smoking is important for your health. Besides being the leading cause of cancer in the United States, smoking tobacco harms most organs of your body and causes many other health problems.

Tobacco smoke contains many chemicals and can even be harmful even if you don't smoke. Exposure to secondhand smoke can increase the risk of cancer and other diseases. If you're pregnant, it can harm your fetus.

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  1. Quitting Smoking (National Library of Medicine)  
    What are the health risks of smoking tobacco? Quitting smoking is important for your health. Besides being the ... Nicotine addiction makes it harder to stop, but quitting smoking can improve the quality and length of your ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/quittingsmoking.html - Health Topics
  2. Weight gain after quitting smoking: What to do 
    ... et al. Interventions for preventing weight gain after smoking cessation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev . 2021;10(10):CD006219. ... Hartmann-Boyce J, Taylor AH. Exercise interventions for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev . 2019;(10):CD002295. PMID: ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000811.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  3. Smoking and surgery 
    Quitting smoking and other nicotine products, including e-cigarettes, before surgery can improve your recovery and outcome after ... weeks before your surgery. Stretching the time between quitting smoking and your surgery out to at least 10 ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000437.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  4. 5 Things to Know about Complementary Health Approaches for Quitting Smoking From the National Institutes of Health (National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health)  
    Quitting Smoking/Treatments and Therapies ... Quitting Smoking ... National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health ... Nearly 70 percent of adult smokers want ...
    https://www.nccih.nih.gov/...-health-approaches-for-quitting-smoking - External Health Links
  5. Quitting smoking (image) 
    The many methods of quitting smoking include counseling and support groups, nicotine replacement therapy, prescription medications, and incremental reduction.
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/imagepages/17214.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  6. Quitting Smoking While Pregnant From the National Institutes of Health (National Cancer Institute, Tobacco Control Research Branch)  
    Quitting Smoking/Women
    https://smokefree.gov/quit-smoking/quitting-while-pregnant - External Health Links
  7. Smoking during Pregnancy Video (March of Dimes Foundation)  
    ... Smoking is addictive and harmful to your health. Quitting smoking can help reduce your risk for cancer and ... pregnancy is bad for you and your baby. Quitting smoking, even if you’re already pregnant, can make ...
    https://www.marchofdimes.org/.../pregnancy/smoking-during-pregnancy - Videos
  8. About Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)  
    Smoking/Start Here ... Smoking ... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... Get information on the impact of diseases caused by smoking, like cancer, heart disease, ...
    https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/about - External Health Links
  9. Benefits of quitting tobacco 
    ... of a non-smoker. Other health benefits of quitting smoking include: Lower chance of blood clots in the ... American Cancer Society website. Health benefits of quitting smoking over time. ... . Updated November 10, 2020. Accessed November 30, ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007532.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  10. Healthy Living, Healthy Vision (Prevent Blindness)  
    Eye Care/Start Here ... Eye Care ... Prevent Blindness ... Good health is an important part of good vision. The healthier you are, the better chance you have of avoiding ...
    https://preventblindness.org/healthy-living-healthy-vision - External Health Links
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