Smoking Cessation: Why You Should Quit
... Smoking statistics  Tobacco use is the number one cause of preventable diseases in the US. Smoking accounts for about 435,000 deaths yearly. In 1965, 42 percent of the US population smoked. In 19...

Smoking and Physical Activity
... If you’ve ever played sports against people who smoke, you may already be aware of the edge you have when competing against them. The fact is, in addition to putting themselves at risk for cancer and ...

Stress, Stress Management, and Smoking
... What is stress? The term "stress" can have many different meanings and can relate to many different things. At times it is used to refer to environmental events that trigger a bodily reactio...

Smoking and Your Digestive System
... Cigarette smoking causes a variety of life-threatening diseases, including lung cancer, emphysema, and heart disease. An estimated 430,000 deaths each year are directly caused by cigarette smoking. Sm...

PET Scans Show Cigarette Smoke Affects Peripheral Organs
... It is well known that smoking cigarettes can directly and often fatally damage the lungs. But new research, with support from the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and the N...

Lung Disease
... Our lungs allow us to breath and get oxygen into the bloodstream and the cells of our bodies. During a normal day, we breathe nearly 25,000 times, and take in (or inhale) large amounts of air. The air...

COPD
... Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung disease in which the lung is damaged, making it hard to breathe. In COPD, the airways-the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs-are partl...

Smoking
... Many people think that lung cancer affects mostly men. But even though we hear more about breast cancer, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in women. And nearly all lung cancer deaths i...

Cáncer de pulmon de celulas no pequenas
... Información generalClasificación celularInformación sobre los estadiosSistema Internacional de Clasificación Revisado para el Cáncer de Pulmón Definiciones TNM Agrupación por estadios del AJCCA...

Smoking  (Easy to Read)
... Smoking causes many serious health problems in women. One of the worst problems smoking can cause is lung cancer. More women die every year from lung cancer than from any other kind of cancer. Smoking...