Smoking
Heart Attack Prevention: Options for Women
Women are more likely than men to die after their first heart attack. To help reduce your risk of a heart attack, it's important to understand how men and women differ when it comes to heart attacks.
The health effects of smoking
- What's in smoke
- Health effects on individual smokers
- Smoking during pregnancy
- Smoking and cancer
- Smoking and heart disease
Secondhand smoke
Quitting
Youth and smoking
Tools and Resources
Research news
- Study: Aging sped up by smoking and obesity
- Study: Anxiety, smoking, body weight may worsen menopause symptoms
- Study: Cutting down on cigarettes cuts lung cancer risk
- Study: Light smoking still ups health risks
- Study: Smoking and breast and kidney cancer
Health features
- Nicotine Craving!
- Cutting Your Cancer Risk
- Eating for Two - Nutrition During Pregnancy
- Heart Health
- Keep Your Resolutions
Health tools
Related medications
About This Channel
Everyone knows smoking is bad for you, but quitting can be a big challenge. Learn about the health effects of smoking, the dangers of secondhand smoke, and how to quit effectively.
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Tools and Resources
Quitting Journal
Follow an average person's journey through the stages of quitting and see what you can learn.
Guides and brochures
Make your home and car smoke-free: Guide to protecting your family from second-hand smoke.
On the Road to Quitting - A guide to becoming a non smoker is a program to help smokers understand their smoking habits and their quitting options.
Useful website and links
For those looking to quit smoking, consult the gosmokefree website for practical quitting resources, including the E-Quit Program, On the Road to Quitting and Quit4Life.
Quit Lines
Quitlines offer free telephone support from trained specialists who can help develop a personal quit plan or provide counselling to family and friends of smokers.
On the Road to Quitting
The On the Road to Quitting program was created to help build your motivation and self-confidence to quit smoking.
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