Mental Illness Can Shorten Life Span as Much as Smoking

MONDAY, May 26, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Serious mental illness can take between seven and 24 years off a person’s life, which is similar to or worse than the impact of heavy smoking, researchers report.

Read more...

Resolve to Change

News Strait Times Tuesday, 31/12/2013 By: Kasmiah Mustapha BECOMING healthier — whether by eating better, losing weight or exercising more — is one of the top resolutions people make as a new year approaches. But those who have successfully made changes in their lives and those who have maintained the changes know that January alone does not determine if you will succeed.

Read more...

Quit smoking on Mondays, not New Year's

The Star Monday, 30/12/2013 Quit smoking on Mondays, not New Year's Experts say once-a-week resolution tends to work better. IF you’re like millions of people around the globe, quitting smoking tops your New Year’s resolution list. But experts say that rather than trying to quit once a year, which rarely works, try every Monday Earlier this year, US researchers monitored Google search queries about quitting smoking over the past five years in English, French, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish, finding that search volumes peaked on Monday, almost every week, in all languages.

Read more...

Smoking 'kills six million every year'

New Straits Times

Friday, 12/07/2013

PANAMA CITY - Despite public health campaigns, smoking remains the leading avoidable cause of death worldwide, killing almost six million people a year, mostly in low- and middle-income countries, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

Read more...

Ramadan incentive to give up smoking

The Sun

Monday, 05/07/2013

Kuala Lumpur : Muslims could take advantage of Ramadan to give-up smoking as they abstain from the habit during fasting hours, Malaysian Public Health Specialists Association(PPPKAM) vice-president Dr. Othman Warijo said yesterday.

Read more...

Smoking habit snuffed out with help of anti-smoking clinic

 

GEORGE TOWN: Adnan Bidin, who puffed away for almost 35 years, never thought that he would ever quit smoking.

“I tried many times to quit but each attempt was less successful than the last,” said the 56-year-old who used to smoke between 20 and 30 sticks a day. He had his first stick at the age of 21.

Read more...