{"id":113070,"date":"2009-12-30T00:40:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T05:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=137434"},"modified":"2009-12-30T00:40:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T05:40:30","slug":"online-help-to-quit-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/113070","title":{"rendered":"Online Help to Quit Smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many people decide to quit smoking<\/a> at the beginning of the New Year. Not everyone succeeds, but those who have support have the advantage. If you’ve failed to quit before, don’t be discouraged. Most smokers try to quit several times before finally succeeding.<\/p>\n

\"lighter-quit\"Just google “quit smoking blog” and you’ll find that lots of people want to talk about their experiences. Some of the blogs are even written by medical professionals.<\/p>\n

One example is the Quit Smoking Blog<\/a><\/strong> at Mayo Clinic, written by Jennifer Kern, a behavioral counselor. She recently wrote an insightful post about Learning to be a non-smoker<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

If you’re into the iPhone, check out iQuit<\/a>.<\/strong> The handy app measures several things for you, including length of time you’ve stopped smoking<\/a>, money saved by not smoking and (most importantly) the living time you’ve gained!<\/p>\n

There are lots of expensive stop smoking aids on the market, but most advice is free. Smokefree.gov<\/a><\/strong> offers an online quit guide<\/strong>. The free quit guide<\/a> includes steps you can take on quit day, help with managing cravings and what to do if you slip, as well as many other resources.<\/p>\n

Major reasons to quit smoking<\/strong><\/p>\n

Smoking<\/a> causes heart disease, emphysema and lung cancer. And it costs a lot of money. Did you know that smoking also increases risk for blindness? According to WebMD<\/a>, those who smoke are four times more likely to develop blindness due to age-related macular degeneration<\/strong>. Smoking also raises the risk of breast cancer.<\/p>\n

Are you working on quitting smoking this year?<\/p>\n

(Image via stock.xchng<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Post from: Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n

Online Help to Quit Smoking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many people decide to quit smoking at the beginning of the New Year. Not everyone succeeds, but those who have support have the advantage. If you’ve failed to quit before, don’t be discouraged. Most smokers try to quit several times before finally succeeding. Just google “quit smoking blog” and you’ll find that lots of people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}