How to Quit Smoking

Understand the science behind cigarette addiction and quit smoking without weight gain.

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Walking helps. Chewing sugarless gum eases oral cravings. Put a rubber band around your wrist so you have something to do with your fingers besides pick up baby back ribs. Concentrate on fruit, vegetables and unbuttered popcorn (low-fat snacks), with a few healthy-fat snacks like six walnuts along with the fruit.  

If you can make any change that’ll improve your health and make you live younger, it’s this one. For once in your life, be a quitter—and be proud of it.

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Secondhand Smoke
Secondhand smoke is one of the few actions another person can do that can contribute to your aging process. Spending an hour in someone else’s smoke is like smoking four cigarettes yourself.

In other words, for every cigarette that a smoker smokes, you’re inhaling about a third of it yourself. Just look at the consequences: Spending four hours a day in a smoking environment can make you as much as 6.9 years older.

That’s all the more reason that if you live with a smoker, you have to encourage that smoker to quit. It’ll help your partner, and not to mention, you!