Smoking Ban News

Well it will be a happy no smoking day if you take some steps to give up smokng today. Best of luck to everyone!

This Wednesday (11th March) is this this year’s No Smoking Day.

Their strapline this year is “Take your first step”. I hope that everyone thinking about quitting uses the day as an extra incentive to take some action. There’s a superb amount of information on the official No Smoking Day website. Here’s a list of helpful pages to see you on your way to giving up.

Stop Smoking Help

• Why should i quit smoking?
• How to quit smoking
• Get some help
• Tell your friends with an e-card
• Find No Smoking Day events near you

As mentioned in my post yesterday Banntyne’s are offering free health checks. Here’s the link to their site which helps you to find your local health check opportunity.
Fitness First also have a promotion on which grants you 5 day guest membership. This great offer also includes a free lung efficiency test! For information click here.

Best of luck on the day if you’re going to quit!

Bannatyne’s health club is marking wednesday’s No Smoking Day by offering a free health check. This will greatly benefit smokers in the region looking to give up. The health check is a perfect way to undertand your own personal fitness and capabilities. To book you can call 01603 431580. The check will be available on monday, tuesday and wednesday.

Hello all,

Well it’s been some time now since the bomb shell of the mother in law to be lung cancer diagnosis back in December 08. Read the first post here. It was straight after that that she was on to cutting down on cigarettes. The introduction of Nicorette inhalators is being used as weapon against the craving.

We now know that the cancer is in one lung but has spread to the lymph glands in the neck. This level of spread is known as Stage 3. Read more about the Stages of Lung Cancer here. As you can imagine this isn’t the best news in the world. Mumma K has been on a course of chemotherapy for the last 2 months. This has got her down, she has put on a bit of weight but other than that she’s in a relatively good spirit considering. This is something we want to concentrate on. Being positive is very important in times like this.

Last week we had the first progress report. A CAT scan was taken. Sadly the cancer in the lungs hasn’t reduced but hasn’t got any bigger. Despite no change there will be one more chemotherapy session for the next month. This means that the radiotherapy is definitely going ahead now and it might be brought forward. My wedding has been brought forward specifically to avoid Mumma K’s radiotherapy sessions so i’m not sure what will happen now. I think the doctors will work around the dates otherwise Mumma K won’t be in any fit state! I should know because i saw my poor belated Dad go through radiotherapy and knocks you for six.

Well Mumma K is now down to a few cigarettes a day with the objective to give up completely soon. The Nicorette inhaler has certainly helped.

I’ll keep all updated as to the progress.

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A discovery has been made, reported by New Scientist, in the future a pill could be used to lessen the damaging effects of smoking tobacco.

28 molecules have been found in abnormal cells with smokers airways. If the moleculed can be fixed then a heavy smoker’s health could be restored to that of a non smoker. Maybe even helping them smoke without any damage at all.

The restoration of these microRNAs could help mitigate some of the damaging effects of smoking.

This could well be the beginning of the end for identifying smokers most at risk from smoking.

Read more about the new pill discovery here