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"Forget about cigarettes and Sex Not long ago, in a respected urology journal, researchers reported that sperm cells of men who regularly smoked cigarettes couldn't swim as efficiently as those of nonsmokers. What's more, it turned out that smokers' sperm cells didn't perform as well on tests that gauge the cell's ability to penetrate the outer shell of a female's egg. This suggests that couples trying to conceive make certain that the father-to-be, as well as the prospective mother, quit smoking early on in their family planning." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Just work out how much you used to spend on cigarettes each week (most people are horrified when they do). How much is that a year? That would pay for a terrific holiday, even a new car over a couple of years. Save the money you used to spend on cigarettes and give yourself a special treat. At least once a week reward yourself by buying or doing something that makes you feel good. Hypnotherapy and acupuncture are extremely successful treatments for cigarette addictions. Try auto-suggestion to reinforce your decision and help you overcome the subconscious desire to smoke." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Forget about cigarettes and Sex Not long ago, in a respected urology journal, researchers reported that sperm cells of men who regularly smoked cigarettes couldn't swim as efficiently as those of nonsmokers. What's more, it turned out that smokers' sperm cells didn't perform as well on tests that gauge the cell's ability to penetrate the outer shell of a female's egg. This suggests that couples trying to conceive make certain that the father-to-be, as well as the prospective mother, quit smoking early on in their family planning." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"It is no wonder that cigarettes inflict such harm; unless there are vast quantities of antioxidants coursing through the tissues, the free radicals produced by cigarettes are unopposed and lead to cancer, heart disease and other degenerative maladies. The fact that smoking kills so many people attests to the reality that most people have insufficient levels of antioxidants to handle the free-radical load it produces. In fact, smoking is a major cause of non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSC); the greater the number of cigarettes smoked, the greater is the risk of skin cancer." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.)

"Other things that interfere with sleep are cigarettes, alcohol, and of course caffeine. A cigarette is a nonpharmacological way of injecting nicotine into your body. Nicotine is a stimulant, and its use can make falling asleep harder for smokers than for nonsmokers. You shouldn't smoke at all, of course, but if you do, make a point of putting your cigarettes away after 7 p.m. The story is the same for alcohol. Alcohol is a sedating drug. Using it will ordinarily put you to sleep; but if you use too much, your sleep will be disturbed." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Smoking Cigarettes: They increase the incidence of any type of cancer by undermining the blood's ability to carry oxygen to the cells of the body and inflaming them. In additon, smoking and second-hand smoke cause cadmium poisoning, a major risk for developing cancer. Sunscreens: Cancer of all types increased dramatically when sunscreens and sunglasses were introduced to the masses. (See Chapter 4 for details." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"For instance: It wasn't too long ago that doctors were paid to recommend cigarettes. That's right; if you look at advertisements from the 1940s and 50s, you'll find lots of doctors saying cigarettes are good for you, that they increase your mental focus and concentration and, believe it or not, that they actually improve your smile. These are the kinds of statements doctors were more than happy make, as long as they were getting paid by the cigarette companies." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"She continued sneaking cigarettes and refused to adhere to a healthy diet and medications. For all these reasons, the medical center ultimately judged Ashley to be a poor prospect for a transplant procedure and moved her to a neighboring hospital that was willing to take on her case. On the other hand, Paige remained committed to healthy changes in her lifestyle and continued as a resident of Heidi's hospital. She received a new heart eight months after her admittance." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"The strong epidemiological evidence on the risks of smoking is based on comparisons of cancer rates in large population groups that smoke different amounts of cigarettes daily, over different periods of time, with those in groups that have never smoked. No such comparisons are feasible for cosmetics and personal care products because their use is virtually universal in the U.S. and most other industrialized nations. Only four notable exceptions —instances in which it was possible to define exposed and non-exposed population groups ?exist." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"It is interesting to note that the type of beta-carotene used in supplements may be harmful in large doses, especially for people who drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes. Summary for Vitamin A Main functions: vision, skin, mucous membranes, infection, and antioxidant. RDA: 2333 IU for adult women and 3000 IU for adult men. Toxicity is possible with supplemental forms of vitamin A. Toxicity is possible with high intakes from food. No toxicity is reported for beta-carotene in food. Tolerable upper intake level for preformed vitamin A is set at 10,000 IU daily." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Avoid illicit drugs and cigarettes, and limit alcohol. • Treat previous STIs with appropriate therapy and be certain of resolution. • Avoid douching. (It is possible that douching will cause a vaginal infection of GC, CT, or BV to ascend into the uterus and/or the fallopian tubes.) • Know the sexual history of your partner. • Heterosexual women who have multiple partners and do not use condoms, cervical caps, or diaphragms are at higher risk for PID. • Women with HIV are at even higher risk and need to practice even greater caution." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The first group taking this oat extract faithfully for nearly a month smoked an average of 19.5 cigarettes per day before the trial test began, but had dropped to an astonishing 5.7 cigarettes per day after the experiment ended. Whereas the non-oat group started out with 16.5 cigarettes per day and actually finished with a slight increase of 16.7 cigarettes smoked each day. Clearly, oats do help break the smoking habit when used as an extract in their fresh state! Old Amish Herbs of St." - John Heinerman, Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs (Get the book.)

"The only relief she found was in prayer, and in smoking cigarettes, and in watching her beloved soap operas, and in the Ativan, which relaxed her, and the Haldol, which seemed, at times, to quell the voices; that is, until she almost died while taking Haldol. Over the weekend, Betty complained of flu symptoms and a high fever to the front desk attendant at the residence. When the fever didn't subside, he called 911 and—without knowing it—saved her life. She was brought to the emergency room, and I saw her the next day, rigged to those machines." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"I remember the man who smoked cigarettes through his eyes, and then there was the one who 115 drove six-inch spikes into his head. That was great stuff) I, of course, believed all of it—or at least most of it. Believe it or not, there is an official Ripley web site that recounts all this rigmarole. Browsing it, I learned that Ripley's did not disappear with my childhood. Indeed, in 2002, they opened a museum in Kuala Lumper. Now all the Malaysian kids can see firsthand what I learned as a child. Researching this chapter, Fran and I were reminded of Ripley. For example..." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"A sort of permanent fuzziness set in, and she couldn't keep the voices at bay. The cigarettes and soap operas didn't matter. She wasn't well. She was moved, as they say, to "a higher level of care," a "more structured" residence, where she could be watched more closely. Even temporarily high body temperatures can lead to brain damage, and the rigidity in the muscles causes them to wear away. Betty was like a boxer after a brutal knockout; she left a part of herself in the ring and in the sweaty sheets of that hospital bed." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"On the other hand, fruits, while cheaper than cigarettes or alcohol, are too expensive for people on subsistence diets. Although bananas and oranges are certainly affordable, you can live without them. Very little fresh fruit has been available at restaurants, especially fast food restaurants, but now Apple Dippers are becoming the norm. Fruits today play an integral role in preventative, wellness medicine. We seem to think that we're only now realizing how important fruits are, but in many cases we're only now rediscovering lost wisdom." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Be aware that coffee and cigarettes increase heartburn by irritating the stomach, and remember that whole grains, fresh fruits, and vegetables combined with nonstressful exercise are the best solutions to constipation. Varicose Veins Varicose veins can occur in the legs or in the anal or vulvar areas in pregnancy, due to hormonal softening of the muscular walls of the veins combined with the extra weight of pregnancy." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Cigarette smoking is known to cause lower birth weight and size; mothers who smoke 13 or more high-tar cigarettes a day have smaller babies in poorer condition than those of nonsmoking mothers.125 Smokers have a miscarriage rate twice as high as that of nonsmok-ers,126 and babies born to mothers who smoke have more than double the risk of dying of sudden infant death syndrome.127 Women who smoke may experience more ectopic pregnancies (a potentially dangerous situation in which the fertilized egg attaches to, and grows on, the fallopian tube outside the uterus)." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"She also began to smoke cigarettes and then marijuana. Ritalin had become her gateway drug to multiple substance abuses—but her psychiatrist, not grasping the role of Ritalin in her growing abuse of multiple chemicals, continued to prescribe Ritalin even as she diagnosed Willow with "substance abuse" and encouraged her to go to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. This was an opportune time for Willow's psychiatrist to make a definitive intervention in her young patient's life." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Even smoking only one to four cigarettes a day doubles a woman's risk of CVD. Smoking a pack or more per day may double to quadruple that.41 Tobacco smoke contains chemicals that damage the lining of the arteries, raise the cholesterol level, promote the KEY CONCEPTS • Determine your individual risk for cardiovascular disease; make an appointment with a knowledgeable health-care practitioner for medical history, physical exams, and tests. • Monitor blood pressure regularly." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"In a related study, scientists from the University of Minnesota asked volunteers (ones who had not smoked cigarettes in at least two years) to spend time in an environment with secondhand smoke, in this case, a casino. After only four hours, the subjects had significant amounts of a biochemical marker in their urine traceable only to a known carcinogen in tobacco. "This is a logical finding," said the lead author, "we were not surprised by these data. But no one has ever shown this."29 Neither should obesity be conceptualized as a personal problem, or at least not merely as a personal problem." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Products that contain hazardous or problematic ingredients need to be accompanied by "Red Flag" warnings that spotlight the health risks uncovered during laboratory testing, similar to the cancer warnings mandated to appear on packs and cartons of cigarettes. But product label warnings should not be used as a justification for the authorization of new carcinogens or for the continued use of carcinogenic products already on the market. It must be stressed that product label warning is no substitute for ingredient phase-out or a ban on products containing clearly harmful chemicals." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"I'm constantly shocked by how many expectant parents allow tobacco smoke in their children's environments. cigarettes contain many chemicals that are known human carcinogens. When children are involuntarily exposed to these toxins, their respiratory systems suffer. Children living with a smoker were 27 percent more likely to miss school due to respiratory illness than kids in nonsmoking homes. And children exposed to two or more smokers were 75 percent more likely than children from nonsmoking homes to call in sick. In addition, asthma is more prevalent in children who reside with a smoker." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Yet, there are striking differences between smoking and cosmetics and personal care products when it comes to regulation: where cigarettes are heavily regulated, [ ], cosmetics and personal care products remain virtually unregulated. The following facts should be unarguable: • The incidence of cancer in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Japan, and other major industrialized nations has escalated to epidemic proportions over recent decades." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Peer Pressure Imagine if everybody smoked cigarettes and one day someone decided to stop. Imagine also, that as soon as the withdrawal symptoms began all the cigarette experts would get together and accost and attack anyone who did not smoke cigarettes for being nicotine deficient You are going to face peer pressure; it is part of the process. All great endeavors have their challenges, or they wouldn't be great. When people offer you toxic food, they may be projecting upon you their own lack of information or fears. Let them know why you are making other choices." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"He smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol quite often. He was college age when kids are in the "party mode" when drinking and late night parties are the fashion. His mother was interested in natural remedies and sent him to a Homeopath she had read about in a magazine. His symptoms were related to over indulgence. Nux Vomica 30 CH, probiotics, fish oil and B12 with folic acid were taken. His diet was adjusted to include more fruits and vegetables, and to avoid deep fried and rich foods. Within one month he said that he felt a lot better. He only got pain occasionally." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"American gas stations now make more money selling food (and cigarettes) than gasoline, but consider what kind of food this is: except perhaps for the milk and water, it's all highly processed nonperishable snack foods and extravagantly sweetened soft drinks in hefty twenty-ounce bottles. Gas stations have become processed-corn stations: ethanol outside for your car and high-fructose corn syrup inside for you. « TRY NOT TO EAT ALONE. Americans are increasingly eating in solitude." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"It's Yours for the Asking) were hard to distinguish from those for Burger King (Have It Your Way), Wheaties (The Breakfast of Champions), and Eve cigarettes (The first truly feminine cigarette—almost as pretty as you are). In 1946, George Orwell observed that language can corrupt our thoughts. The "invasion of one's mind by ready-made phrases . . . can only be prevented if one is constantly on guard against them, and every such phrase anaesthetizes a portion of one's brain." There was no question that the drug companies were attempting such an invasion." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"The reason was that the smokers of kretek cigarettes (made from 60% tobacco and 40% cloves) preferred Zanzibar cloves. The use of cloves in Indonesia (for kretek cigarettes) is currently estimated to be around 100 000 tons. Parts used Unopened, dried flower buds. Cultivation & harvesting Trees are grown from seeds (or seedlings gathered in existing plantations). Commercial harvesting of the clusters of flower buds (by hand-picking) starts after about six to ten years. Trees remain productive for up to 60 years. The buds are spread out in the sun to dry." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.)

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