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Smoking Cessation Medications: How Varenicline and Bupropion Work
By SmokersLung.com Respiratory Health Education Team Stop taking varenicline or bupropion and contact your prescriber immediately if you notice new agitation, hostility, aggressive behavior, depressed mood, or thoughts of suicide. Call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room for thoughts of self-harm that feel urgent. If you have a seizure while taking bupropion, do…
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Smoking and Anesthesia: What Surgeons Need Patients to Know Before a Procedure
By SmokersLung.com Respiratory Health Education Team Why Anesthesia Teams Ask About Smoking Anesthesia providers ask about smoking because it changes how your heart, lungs, and blood vessels respond to surgery and recovery. Tobacco smoke lowers the oxygen available to your tissues and makes it harder for wounds to heal. Knowing your smoking history — including…
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Smoking and Fertility: Effects on Reproductive Health for Men and Women
By SmokersLung.com Respiratory Health Education Team How Smoking Affects Fertility in Men and Women Smoking is linked to lower fertility in both women and men, and it raises the risk of several pregnancy complications. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that smoking causes reduced fertility in women, and reduced fertility is also…
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How Long After Quitting Do Lungs Start to Improve: A Realistic Timeline
By SmokersLung.com Respiratory Health Education Team How Long Does It Take For Lungs To Heal After Quitting Smoking? Lung healing starts fast and keeps going for years. Some changes, like a drop in the nicotine in your blood, happen within a day. Other changes, like a lower risk of lung cancer, take a decade or…
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Smoking and Anxiety: The Nicotine Paradox Explained
By SmokersLung.com Respiratory Health Education Team If You’re in Crisis, Get Help Now If you are having thoughts of harming yourself, or your anxiety feels sudden, severe, or out of control, stop reading and get help right away. Call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) any time, day or night. If you have chest…
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Smoking Cessation Apps and Digital Tools: What to Check Before You Download
By SmokersLung.com Respiratory Health Education Team What to Look for Before You Download a Quit-Smoking App A good quit-smoking app is built on tested behavior-change methods, tracks your cravings and progress over time, and is upfront about who made it and why. A weak app is built mainly to sell you something, makes big promises…
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Breathing Exercises After Quitting Smoking: What Helps and What Is Unproven
By SmokersLung.com Respiratory Health Education Team What Breathing Exercises Actually Do After You Quit Two breathing techniques have real, documented support for helping people with breathing difficulty: pursed lip breathing and belly (diaphragmatic) breathing. Both are taught by pulmonary rehabilitation specialists and come from the American Lung Association. Neither one “cleans out” your lungs or…